Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 May 1884 — TARIFF LEGISLATION. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF LEGISLATION.

, The Provisions of Mr. Hewitt’s New Revenue Bill. Representative Hewitt’s tariff bill, introduced in Congress on the 12th tost, is framed on a different principle from the beheaded Morrison measure, though it contains many of the features of the latter, besides many others. It is entitled “A bill to modify existing laws relating to duties on imports ana internal-revenue taxes and to enlarge the free list" Extensive additions to the free list are proposed. The bill, after mnking modifications to simplify the administration of the custom laws, provides that after the 30th of June, 1884, the internal-revenue tax on brandy distilled exclusively from apples, peaches, and grapes shall be 10 cents on each proof gallon or wine gallon when below proof. After Jan. 1,1885, no article mentioned in Schedule I (cotton and cotton goods) shall pay a higher rate of duty than 40 per cent ad valorem; in Schedule J (hemp, jute, and flax) than 30 per cent; in Schedule M (wool and woolens) than 70 per cent; and carpets and caroeting snail not pay a higher rate than So per cent, ad valorem; and in schedules B and C (earthenware and glassware, and metals) than 50 per cent. On all articles, except those specifically excepted, mentioned in Schedule A (chemicals), D (wood), G (provisions), M (books), N (sundries other than precious stones), and E (sugar) there shall be levied 90 per oent. of duties now imposed. 0# the articles in Schedule F (tobacco) there shall be levied 80 per cent, of the duties now imposed. On still wines in casks the duty shall be 40 oents a gallon. It repeals tha clause of the law of 1883 which imposes a tax of 6-10 of a oent per pound on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fenoe wire rods, round, in eoils and loops, valued at 3£ gents or less per pound, and authorizes the Secretary of the . Treasury to refund to any manufacturer of fence-wire or wire-baling ties the amount of duties which mav have been paid on imported iron or steel wire-rods actually used m the manufacture of fenoe nnd baling ties.

! The following articles are put on the free list; Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, or other packnges, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm; coke; cool, bituminous or shale, provided this shall not apply to ooal imported from Canada until that Government shall have exempted from the payment of duty all coal imported into that country from the United States; timber, hewn nnd sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber, squared or sided, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemlock, white wood, sycamore, and basswood, and all other articles of sawed lumber; hubs for wheels, posts, last-blocks, wagon-blocks, bre-blocks, gunblocks, heading-blocks, and all like blooks or sticks rough hewn or sawed only; staves of wood of all kinds; pickets and palings; laths; shingles; fine clapboards; spruce clapboards; wood,unmanufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron ore, including mangamferous iron ore; the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur ore and iron pyrites; copper imported in the form of ores; lead ore and lead dross; nickel in ore, matter; chromate of iron, or chromic ore; hay; chicory root, ground or underground, burnt or prepared; acorns and dandelion root, raw or prepared, and all other articles used or intended to be used os coffee or as substitutes therefor, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; jute, jute-butts, flax-straw, flax not hackled or dressed, tow of flax or hemp, hemp, manila, and other like substitutes for hemp not specially enumerated or provided for; sunn, sisal grass, and other vegetable substances not specially enumerated or provided for; brieties; beeswax; lime; glycerine, orude; extract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or provided for in this act; indigo, extraot of, and cflrmined; tartars, partly refined, including Lee’s crystals; cement, Roman, Portland, : and all others; whiting and Paris white, dry; nitrate of potash or saltpeter; wood tar; coal tar, crude; ooal tar, products Of, such as naphtha, benzine, benzole, dead oil, and pitch; all preparations of coal tar, not colors or dye, not especially enumerated or- provided for in this act; ochre and ochry earths, umber and umber earths, and sienna and i sienna earths; all earths or clays unwrought | or unmanufactured not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and

bulbous r • ots and excrescences, such os nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried fibers, groins, gums, and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, and stems, spices vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds,) and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing of which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding or other process of manufacture, and not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; iron or steel sheets or plates, or taggers-iron coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals are a component part, by dipJ)ing or any other process, and commercialy known as plates, terne plates, and tag-gers-in; wools of the third class, commonly known as carpet wools; asphaltum; living animals ;copperas, or sulphate of iron; microscopes imported by physicians for professional use, and not for sale; copper in ingots, old copper, regulus of copper; goatskins; rags; books in foreign languages, and professional books not published in the United States, imported in single copies, for use and not for sale; crude borax, refined borax, and boracio aoid; grindstones in the rough; stones, unmanufactured or undressed, freestones, granite, sandstone, and all building or monmental stone, except marble not specially enumerated or provided for; paintings in oil and and water colors and statuary, not otherwise provided for; osier or willow prepared for basket-makers’ use; waste and all raw and unmanufactured material not specially provided for by the existing law. Sec. 8 abolishes all fees, and the oaths required by existing laws relating to the entry of goods are abolished, and it is provided that where such fees constitute all or part of the compensation of any such officer the latter shall receive in lieu thereof a fixed salary. It is further provided that the Secretary of the Treasury shall grant permission to any firm or corporation to withdraw from bond alcohol or any spirits containing aloohol, subject to the internal revenue tax, in specific quantities, of not less than 300 proof gallons, without payment of internal revenue tax on same or on the spirits from which it may have been distilled, for the sole purpose of use in industrial pursuits.