Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1893 — TARIFF REFORM BILL [ARTICLE]

TARIFF REFORM BILL

PROVISIONS OF THE WILSON MEASURE MADE PUBLIC. Free List Extended to Wool, Coal, Lumber, Salt and Iron Ore—lt» Enactment Would End Reciprocity and Require Revision of Treaties. Extensive Free List. The new Democratic tariff bill has been given to the public, and, according to a Washington dispatch, its provisions fulfill every expectation that it might be a radical measure of reform. In many respects it is a surprise evon to the Democratic members of Congress, as it is unprecedented in many of its provisions. The free list is of that liberal scope sufficient to satisfy the most radical advocates of reform and the repudiation of the principle of reciprocity which has been the pride of the Republicans is decisive and emphatic. -It will necessitate a readjustment of treaties with th( se South American countries which enjoy practical or theoretical reciprocity with the United States. The bounty on sugar is to be repealed by easy gradations and will not reach its conclusive effect until after the end of the present century. On and after the Ist of March, 1894, the following articles are to be added to the free list: Bacon and hams, beef, mutton and pork, and meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for In this act. Baryta. All binding twine manufactured In whole or In part from thißtle or tamplco liber, manila, sisal grass or sunn, of single ply and measuring not exceeding MO feet to the pound. Birds, stuffed, not suitable for millinery ornaments, and bird skins, prepared for preservation, but not lurther advanced In manufacture. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper. Bone' char, suitable l’or use in decorating sugars. Coal, bituminous, and shale, and coal slack or cut; coke; coal tar, crude, and all preparations and products of coal tar, not colors or dyes, not specially provided for In this act. Oxide of cobalt. Copper Imported in the form of ores; old copper, lit only for manufacture; clipping from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially provided for In this act; regulus of copper and black or coaise copper, and copper cement, copper in plates, bars, ingots, or pigs, and other forms, not manufactured, not special y provided for in this act. Copperas, or sulphate of iron. , Cotton-ties of iron or steel cut to lengths, Bunched or not punched, with or without buckles, for belting cotton. Diamonds, dust or bort, and jewels to be used in the manufacture of watches or clocks. Yelks of eggs of birds, fish and insects. Downs of all kinds, crude, not specially provided for in this act. Fresh fish. Furs, undressed. lodine. Resublimated iron ore: also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and pyrites or sulphurtt of iron in its natural state. Lard. Lemon juice; lime juice, and sour orange juice. Mica, and metallc mineral substances in a crude state and metals unwronght, not specially provide t for in this act. Ochre and ochery earths; sienna and sienna earths; umber and umber earths, not specially provided for in this act. Cotton seed oil, paintings, in oil or water colors, and statuary, not otherwise provided for in this act. Plows, tools, and disc-harrows, harvesters, reapers, drills, mowers, horse rakes, cultivators, threshing machines and cotton gins, Plnsh, black, for making men’s hats. Quicksilver. Salt. Silk, partially manufactured from cocoons or' from waste silk, and not farther advanced or manufactured than carded or combed silk. Soap, all not otherwise specially provided for in tills act. Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre cake; sulphuric acid. Tallow and oil grease, Including that known commercially as De Gras, or brown wool itrease. Straw. Burr stone, bound up into millstones; free stone, grauite, sandstone, limestone, and othsr building or monumental, except marble, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act. All wearing apparel and other personal effects shall be admitted free of duty, without regard to their value, upon their identity being established under such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe. Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars and in building wharves; timber squared or sided: sawed boards,,planks, deals and other lumber: laths; pickets and palings; shingles; staves of wood of all kinds; wood unmanufactured: provided, that if any export duty is laid upon the above-mentioned articles, or either of them, all said articles Imported from said country shall be subjeot to duty as now provided by law. Chair cane, or reeds, wrought or manufactured from rattans or leeds. Weeds, namely, cedar, lignum vitas, lanoewood, ebony, box, granadilla mahogany, rosewood, satinwood, and all forms of cabinet woods, in the leg, rough or hewn Bamb o and rattan, unmanufactured. Briar root or briar wood and similar wood unmanufactured. Reeds and sticks of partridge, hair wood, pimento, orange, myrtle and other woods in the rough, or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sun shades, whips or walking canes. All wool of the sheep, hair of the camel goat, alpaca, and other like animals, and all wool and hair on the skin. Nails, yarn waste, card waste, bur waste, rags, and flax. Including all waste, or rags, composed wholly or In part of wool.