Pike County Democrat, Volume 24, Number 30, Petersburg, Pike County, 8 December 1893 — Page 2

THE TARIFF BILL » Bill of the Majority Submitted to the Full Committee, _mttaneounly Given to the Fabllc, It to the Measure that W1U Go Before the House for It* Adoption. Washington, Nor. 27.—After weeks t preparation, involving an exhaustive ■dy of the subject, from a democratic •eat of view, the new tariff bill is at et completed and made public. Hie bill, it should be explained, is ■cely a democratic measure. It is the ark of the democratic members of the anaittee. who have jealously guarded s details even from their congression- ; associates. It was not until to-day ■M the republican members of the anmittee were made acquainted with l contents, while their knowledge of te measure during the past fortnight tn been gained wholly from the ited accounts in the daily press, ver criticism may be made of the re from an economic or party point, it must be admitted that Mr Wilson and his associates have •men their best thought and study to 10 work in hand. The following is a condensed text of m bill: » and after the first day of March, 18fii, tss otherwise specially provided for in this there shall be levied, collected and paid all articles imported from foreign counand mentioned in the schedulea herein ined, the rates of duty which are. by the lules and paragraphs, respectively prescribed, namely:

SCHEDULE A. flnnt tli Oils amt Paintt— Acids—Acetic or vyrollgnous »cld, 80 per Chromic acid, 10 per oentum. Citric acid, 80 per centum. Thaaic acid, or tannin, 35 per centum. Coloring matters tor liquors. 50 per centum. Ethers—Sulphuric, 23 cents per pound; spirits ot nitrous ether. 20 cents per pound; ttstit ethers, oils or essences, $1 per pound. Extracts and decoctions ot dye woods and hark, etc.. 10 per centum. lah and ink powders, printers' Ink, 20 per Iodoform, 81 per pound. CAcortce. 5 cents per pound. Magnesia, carbonate. 3 cents, per pound; oaiciaod. 7 per oenls. pound. Marphia, 50 cents per ounce. AHaarlae oil. or oleate ot soda, or turkey-red Ail,3S per centum. Chetor oil. 35 cents per gallon. Cad User oil, 20 por centum ad valorem. Haxseed or linseed and poppyseed oil, 15 meats per gallon of 7Vt pounds weight. fusel oil, or amyllce alcohol. 10 per centum. Uempseod oil and rapeseed oil, 10 cents per Olive oil, 35 cents per gallon. » Peppermint oil, 25 per centum. Seal, herring and whale and other fish oil, 25 ! her centum. Opium, aquies extract of. and tincture of, 25 per oentum. Opium containing less than 9 per centum of SMtphia and opium prepared for smoking, 84 per pound. Baryta paint, manufactured. S3 per ton. Blues, such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, etc, Scents per pound. Hlano-Flxe, or satin white, 25 per centum ad valorem. Black paint made from hone, ivory or voge•<Mdo. 20 per centum. Chrome yellow, all other chromium colors, ifl per oe nt. Ocher, sienna and umber, 114 conts per pound. Ultramarine blue, 20 centum. Varnishes 25 per centum^jnnd on spirit var--aishea for the alcohol coutainod therein, $1.32 .per gallon additional. Vermillion red and colors containing quick -•Over. 89 per centum. Whiting and Paris white. 25 per centum. Ail other paints and colors. 25 per centum ad •valorem. Tartaric acid 80 per centum ad valorem? Alcoholic perfumery, 82 per gallon and 25 per -centum. Alumina, alum, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate ot alumina and aluminous cake, aud alum In. crystals, 80 per centum. Blacking of all kinds. 20 per centum. Reaped borax. 20 por centum. Chalk, prepared, 80 per oentum. Chloroform, 25 cents per pound. All coal-tar oolors or dyes, 20 per centum. Collodion and all compounds of pyroxylene, PI conts per pound; if finished. 81 per l>ouml Ail other paints and oolors. 25 per centum ad valorem. Acetate of lead, 30 per centum, filtrate of lead. 30 per centum. -Orange mineral and red lead, 35 per oentum. White lead. 30 per centum. ^Phosphorus, 25 per oentum. Bichromate and chromate of potash, 20 per Hydrlodate, todade apd lodate ot potash, & seats per pound. SUrate of potash, H of 1 cent per pound. IPrussate of potash, 20 per centum. AH medicinal preparations, including me<Uciual proprietary preparations, of whioh aleahot is a common part, 50 cents per pound. AU medicinal preparations, not specially -provided tor, 25 per centum ad valorem. Preparations known as alkalies, alkaloids, distilled oils, essential oils. etc..and ail chemical compounds and scales not specially provided for. 25 per centum. Cosmetics, dentifrices, etc.. 40 per centum. Santonlne and all salts thereof containing 80 •per oentum or over of sanotonine, 81 per pound. Chstile soap. 20 per centum ad valorem; all 'descriptions of toilet soap, 35 per centum ad Bi-carbouate of soda, or saleratus, tt cent per pound. Caustic soda, >4 of 1 cent per pound. Chromal ot soda, 20 per centum. Salsoda. 14 of 1 cent por pound; soda ashi 14 m2 1 cent per pound. Silicate ot soda. 14 of 1 cent per pound. Sponges, 10 per centum. , Strtchnia. 30 per oentum. Sulphur. Sowers of. 29 per centum. Sumac, ground. 10 per centum. Tartar, cream of. 25 per ceutum. Tartars and less crystals, partly refined, 25 per oentum Tartrate ot soda and potash, or roohelle salts, -hipar oentum.

farOc, Earthenicare and Olaumtre— Brick, not glazed, 80 per centum; decorated, ■ per centum. a, plain and encaustic, not glased. 2$ per I ad valorem; glased or decorated, 40 per emeat, Limeand Platter— Homan. Portland aud other hydraulio oeHoentS'Per 100 pounds; in hulk, 7 cents or 14 pounds; other cement,. 10 per oentum. Line, 10 per centum. Plaster of paris or gypsum, ground, 10 per a; calcined, 10 per centum. or Earth— Wrought or manufactured. China clay or tS per ton. re and China— n brown earthenware not ornamented, t per oentum. White granite common ware. Si per oentum. China, porcelain and bisqueware, aot decomod. <4 per centum; ditto, deoorated. 45 per All other earth, stone and crookory ware, 35 ■or tentum ad valorem; decorated, 40 per On retorts. 25 per centum. Mges and Olattware— Plain green 'and colored glassware, 30 per Cut engraved, painted and colored gloss, not neking glass, 85 per oentum; cut glass, bottles, jmantnm 35 per centum ad valorem. Onpollshed crown and window glass not exHading 18*24 laches square, 1 cent per pend;

not exceeding 21x30 inches square. Hi cents per pound, not exceeding 31x38 Inches squats. IK cents per pound; all above that. Hi cents per pound. Cylinder and crovrn class, not exceeding 18x31 inches square. 3-, cents per square foot: not exceeding 3tx<J Inches square. 13 cents per square toot; above that. 33 cents per square toot. Fluted, rolled or rough plate class, not exceeding 18x31 Inches square. K of 1 cent per square toot; not exceeding 31x33 inches square 1 cent per square foot: all above that. Hi cents per square foot: und all fluted, rolled or rough plate glass, weighing over 13) pounds per 13) square feet, shall pay nn additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein lmpdsod. Cast polished glass, not exceeding 18x31 Inches square, 3 cents per square foot; not exceeding 31x33 Inches square. IS cents per square foot; all above that, 30 cents per square foot. Cast polished plate glass, tllrered and look-ing-glass plates not exceeding 18x31 Inches square, 8 cents per square foot: not exceeding 31x30 inches square. 10 cents per square foot: not exceeding 31x80 Inches square. S3 cents pgr square toot; nil above that. 33 cents per square foot. [But no looking-glass or plate glass, silvered, when framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall pay In addition thereto upon such frames at the rate of duty applicable thereto when imported separate.] Cast polished plate glass, silvered or unsllvered, and cylinder, crown, or common widow glass, when ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved. stained, colored, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject ty a duty of 10 per centum ad valorem. In addition to the rates otherwise chargeable thereon. Spectacles, eyeglasses.goggles.opcra glasses, and other optical Instruments and frame for the same. SI per oentum. Glass beads. 10 per centum. Lenses of glass or pebble, wholly or partly manufactured. 33 per centum. Fusible, enamel, and glass slides for magto lanterns.35 per centum. All stained or painted window glass and all mirrors, not exceeding In sixe ltt square Inches. 33 per centum. Marble*. Stones. Etc.

Marbles of all kinds, in rough, 40 oents per oublc foot. Marble dressed. 75 cents per cubic foot Manufactures of marble or alabaster not specially proylded for, 30 per centum. Free stone, granite and other building stone, excepting marble not specially provided, dressed. 30 per centum ad valorem. Grindstones. $1.73 per ton. Slates. 30 per centum. Roofing slates. 10 per centum. SC8KDULB a Iron, ete.— Metals and manufactures of Iron and steel, iron in pigs. Iron kentledge, spi“gel, eisen. ferro mangane.se, ferro silicon, wrought and cast scrap-iron and scrap-steel. 33'i per centum ad valorem (but nothing shall be doomed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron orsteel tit only to be remanutaotured). All iron in slabs, blooms, loops or other forms more advanced than pig iron and less finished than iron in bars, 33 per centum ad valorem. liar iron, rolled or hammered round, iron in coils or rods and bars or shapes of rolled iron, SO per centum. Beams, girders. Joists, angles, channels, car tracks, T. T. columns and posts or parts of sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams and building forms, together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched or fitted for use, 33 per centum. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw plates hereinafter provided for. not thinner than number 10 wire gauge, sheared or uusbeared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves. 30 per centum. Forgings of iron or steel ootrbined, of whatever shape or in whatever stage of manufacture, SO per centum. Hoop, band or scroll iron or steel. 30 per centum. Railway bars made of iron or steel and railway bars made in pavt of steel T rails.and punched iron or steel fiat rails. 33 per centum. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, including all irouj or steel commercially known as common or black, taggers' iron and steel and skelp iron or steel. 33 per centum. All Iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, band or scroll iron or steel, excepting what was commercially known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers’ tin, and hereinafter provided for. when galvanized or coated with zlno or spelter or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, 33 per centum. Sheet iron, or street steel polished, planished or glaced, under whatever name designated, 33 per centum. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers' Iron or steel, coated with tin or lead or with a mixture of whioh these metals or either of them ts a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers' tin, 40 per centum. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs by whatever process mode, die blocks or blanks, billets and bars and tempered or beveled bars, steamer, crank and other shafts, shafting wrist or crank pins, connecting rods and piston rods, pressed, sheared or stamped shapes, saw plates, wholly or partially manufactured, hammer molds or swagged steel, gun barrel molds hot in bars, used as substitutes for steel tools, all descriptions and shapes of dry sand loam or iron molded steel castings and steel in all forms and shapes not specially provided for, S3 per centum. Wire rods, rivets, screws, fences and other iron or steel wire rods and nail rods, 30 per centum. Wire, iron or steel wire, and wire or strip "'steel, commonly known as crinoline wire, corset wire and hat wire, flat steol wire or sheet steel in strips covered with cotton.silk or othor material, iron or s«*ei cloths, and iron or steel nettings made in moshes of any form, iren or steel-coated with zinc or tin, or any other metal wire rope and wirastrfind, 30 per centum. Anchors or parts thereof of iron or steel: mill irons and mill cranks of wrought iron, and wrought iron for ships and forging of iron or steel, or of combined iron and steel, tor vessels, steam engines and locomotives, S3 per centum. Axles or parts thereof, whether of iron or steel, 23 per centum. Anvils of iron or steel, 25 per oentum. Blacksmiths' hammers and sledges, tracktools, wedges and crowbars. 25 per centum. Boiler or other tubes, pipes, flues or stays of wrought iron or steel. S3 per centum. Bolts, with or without threads or nuts, or bolts, blanks and finished hinges, or hinges, or hinge blanks, 35 per centum. Card clothing. 30 per centum

Vuab iron ui ovwjr w»v[j|iuuu, jjcr centum. Cast Iron vessels, plates and castincs of iron, not specifically provided tor, 23 per centum. Casting of malleable iron not specially provided for. 25 per centum. Cast hollow wire, coated, glazed or tinned, 30 per oentum. Chains of all kinds, 30 per centum Penknives or pocketknives. razors and razor blades, flnished or unllnished. valued at not more than sixty cents per dozen. 35 per oentum; valued at more than that, 45 per oentum. Swords, sword blades and side arms. 35 per centum. Table knives, forks, steels and all hunting and other knives. 35 per centum. Piles of all cuts and kinds. 85 per centum Muskets, muzzle-loading'shotguns and sporting rifles, 35 per centum. Sporting breech-loading shotguns and pistols, 30 per centum. Sheets, plates, wares, or articles of iron.steel of other metal, enameled or glazed with vitreous glass. 35 per centum. Cut nails and spikes. 25 per oentum. Cut tacks, brads or sprigs of all kinds, 23 per centum. Needles, for knitting or sewing machines, crotohet needles, and tape noedles and bodkins of ntetal 25 per centum. Steel plates engraved, stereotype plates and plates of other materials engraved or lithographed tor printing. 25 per oentum Riv 'ts of iron or steel. 30 per oentum. Crosscut laws and ail other saws, 21 par oentum

Screws, commonly called wood screws. 3D per I centum. —— Wheels and steel-tirsd wheels for railway I purposes, and Iron-steel locomotive, car or other railway tires or parts thereof, cogged, j ingots. blooms, or blanks for the same, 33 per centum. Aluminum, In crude form, IS per centum. Argentine or German silver manufactured, 13 per centum. llrass. la bars or pigs, old brass at only for remanufacture 10 per centum. Uronse powder, metalllcs, or Bitters In leaf j 30 per centum. i Copper in rolled plates, SO per centum. Bullions and metal thread of gold, silver or two other metals not specially provided for, S3 per centum. ] > Stiver leaf. 33 per centum: lead ore and lead dross. 13 per centum upon the lead contained j therein, according to sample aud assay at the | port of entry. ! Lead in pigs and bars and old scrap lead manufactured. 1 cent per pound: provided. I that In case any foreign country shall Impose . an export duty upon lead ore or lead dross or silver ores containing lead exported to the | United States from such country, then the ! duty upon lead In pigs and bars, molten and ! old refuse lead run Into blocks and bars and old scrap lead Ut only to be remanuractured. herein provided for when Imported from such I country shall remain the same as Bxed by the law In force prior to the passage of this act. Lead in sheets and lead wire. 1 cent per pound. Pens, metallic, except gold pens. 33 per centum. Penholder tips and gold pens. 25 per centum. Pins, metallic, not commercially known as jewelry. 2» per centum. Type metal and new types. 13 per centum. Chronometers, 10 per centum. Watches and clocks. 23 per centum. Ziuc in blocks or pigs. 2> per oentum. Zinc, in sheets. 23 per centum. Zinc, only to be remanufaciurod, 15 per centum Manufactured articles or wares not specially provided for In this act. composed wholly or in part of any metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, 35 per oentum ad valorem. SCHEDULE D. Wood and manufactures of osier or willow, prepared tor basket makers' use. 20 per centum.

Casks ana barrels, sugar-box snooks, ana packing boxes and packing-box shocks of wood. 20 per centum. House or cabinet furniture of wood, 25 per oeutum. SCHEDULE E. Sugar— That the bounties authorised to be paid to producers of sugar by section 231 of the act entitled: An Act to Reduce Revenue. Equalize Duties, and for Other Purposes, approved October I, 1890, shall be reduced one-eighth part of their respective amounts, as prescribed in said act each year, beginning with July 1, 1895. and extending to July 1, 1902, inclusive, and shall therefrom cease and determine. All sugars above No. 16. Dutch standard in color, shall pay a duty of 5-10 of 1 cent, per pound.. Sugar candy and all confectionary sugars after being relined, 30 per centum. Qlucose or grape sugar. 15 per centum. schedule r. Tobacco and manufactures of all leaf tobacco, or such part thereof as is commercially known as wrapper tobacco and suitable for cigar wrappers, if unstemmed, $1 per pound; if stemmed. $1.25 per pound. All other leaf tobacco, if unstemtned. 35 cents^ per pound; if stemmed, *50 cents per pound. Tobacco, manufactured or unmanufactured, of all descriptions, not specially enumerated, 40 cents per pound. Snuff of all descriptions, 40 cents per pound. Cigars, cheroots and cigarettes of all kinds, including wrapper. 63 per pound and 25 per centum. SCHEDULE Q. Agricultural Products and ProHsiont— All live animals not specially provided for, 20 per centum. Buckwheat, corn or maize, commeal, oats, rye, rye flour, wheat and wheat flour. 20 per centum; but each of the above products shall be admitted free of duty from any country which imposes no import duty on the like pro duct when exported from the United States. Barley, barley malt and barley pearled, pat ent or hulled. 20 per centum. Macaroni, vermicelli and all similar preparations, 25 per centum. Rice, cleaned. Ui cents per pound; uncleaned rice or rice free of the cuter hull and still hav ing thinner cuticle on, 1 cent per pound. Rice flour and rice meal, and rice broken, which will pass through a seive, known com mercially as No. 12 wire selves, 14 of 1 cent per pound. * Paddy, or rice having the outer hull on, Ji of 1 cent per pound. Butter and substitute therefor, 3 cents per pound. Cheese. 25 per centum. Milk, preserved or condensed, 20 per centum. Beans, 20 per centum. Beans, peas, mushrooms and other vegetables, prepared or preserved in tins, jars, bot ties or otherwise, including pickles and sauce of all kinds. 30 per centum. Hay. 62 per ton. THE WOOL SCHEDULE. Duties are tlxed on manufactures of wool as follows: On woolen and worsted yarns, 30 per cent.; valued at more than 40 cents per pound. 35 per cent, ad valorem : on woolen or worsted cloths, shawls, knit fabrics and other manufactures, 40 per cent, ad valorem. On women's and children's dress goods, coat linings, bunting and goods of similar aescription or character. 40 per cent, ad valorem. On cloaks, dolmaus. jackets, ulsters or other outside garments for ladies’ and children’s ap parel, 45 per cent, ad valorem; , present law. 49 l t cents per pound and 60 per cent, ad valorem. Aubusson. Axmlnster.^moquette and chenille carpets, and all carpeting of like character or condition, and Oriental, Berlin and other similar riigs, 35 per cent, ad valorem; present law, 60 cents per square yard and 40 per cent. Saxony, Wilton and Tourney velvet carpets, 30 per cent, ad valorem; present law. 60 cents per pound and 40 per cent. ufBrussels carpet, 30 per cent, ad valorem: present law, 44 cents per square yard and 40 per oent. The bill provides that on all rates of duties in the woolen schedule, except on carpets, there shall be a reduction of 1 per cent, on the hundred on the 1st of July. 1896, and thereafter of a like amount on the tirst day of July, 1897, 1896. 1899 and 1900.

rUAX AND JUTE PRODUCTS. Flax hackled, known as "dressed line," lMi cents per pound; present law. S cents. Yarn, made of jute. SO per oent ad valorem: present law, 33 per cent. Cables, cordage and twine (exoept binding twine), 10 per cent, ad valorem. Burlaps, not exceeding DO Inches In width, containing not over 40 threads to the square Inch, counting warp and filling, and bags for grain made of such burlaps, SO per cent ad valorem. Bagging for cotton, gunn; cloth and all similar material suitable for covering cotton, IS per cent, ad valorem. Linen collars and culls and shirts and all articles of wearing apparel not especially provided for, 33 per oent. ad valorem. All manufactures of flax. hemp, jute or other vegetable fiber, except cottou, 30 per cent, ad valorem; present law. TromS cents per pound to 40 per cent, ad valorem. Sole leather, 3 per cent, ad valorem; present law 10 per cent. Bend or belting leather, 10 per cent, ad valorem; no change. Leather made into shoe uppers or ramps or other forms, 30 per cent, ad valorem. The glove schedule has been entirely rear ranged, and dillers from the McKinley law quite materially. Printing paper, unsized, for books and news papers, 13 per cent, ad valorem; present law, IS per cent Surface-coated papers and ^manufactures thereof, card boards, lithographto prints, except illustrations when forming a part of a periodical newspaper, or in printed books photographs, autographs and scrap albums, % per cent, ad valorem: present law, 33 per cent. Envelopes, 30 pm: {cent ad valorem; present duty, 33 per sent

Playing cards. 10 cants per package and so per cenV ad valorum; present duty. SO cents per package. TBS nu LIST. On and after tne 1st of March. 1!M. the following articles are to be added to the free list: Articles tor the use of the Cnlted States— bacon and hams, beet mutton and pork and meats or all kinds, prepared or preserved, not specially provided for In this act; baryta, all binding. twine manufactured in whole or in part from lstle or tapioca fiber, mantla. sisal grass or senn. of single ply and measuring not exceeding 8U0 feet to the pound: birds. stuSed. not suitable for millinery ornaments, and birds' skins, prepared for preservation, but not further advanced in manufacture: blue vitriol or sulphate of copper; bone charcoal, suitable 8>r use in deodorising sugars: coal, bituminous and shale, and coal, slack or cut; coke: coal tar. crude and all preparations or products of coal tar. not colors or dyes, not specially provided for tn this act: oxide of cobalt; copper Imported in the form of ores; old copper, fit only for remanufacture. clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which' copper Is a component material of chief value not specially provided tor tn this act: regulus of copper and black or coarse copper, and copper cement, copper in plates, bars, ingots or pigs and other forms, not manufactured, not specially provided tor in this act; copperas, or sulphate of iron; cotton ties of iron: cotton ties of iron or steel cut in lengths, punched or not punched, with or without buckles, for belting cotton, diamond, dust or bort. and jewels to be used to the manufacture of watches or clocks; yolks or eggs of birds, fish, and insects: downs of all kinds. crude, not specially provided for in this act; fresh fish, furs, undressed: iodine, resublimated iron ore, including manganifereus Iron ore. also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites and sulphur and pyrites or sulphuret of iron in its natural state; lard, lemon-juice, lime juice and sour orange juice, mica and metallic -mineral substances in a crude state, and metals unwrought, not specially provided for in this act; ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, umber and umber earths, not specially provided tor 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: plush, black, tor making men's hats; quicksilver, salt, silk, partially manufactured from cocoons or from waste silks and not farther advanced or manufactured than carded or combed silks; soaps, all not otherwise specially provided for in this act; sulphate ot soda, or salt cake or nitre cake; sulphuric acid, tallow and wool grease. including that known commercially as degras or brown wool grease, straw, burr stone, bound up into millstones: freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone and other building or monumental stone except marble, unmanufactured or undressed, not specially provided for in this act; all wearing apparel and 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 sidod; sawed boards, planks, deals and othor lumber; laths, pickets and palings; shingles and stares 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 subject to duty as now provided by law; chairs .cane or reed, wrought or manufactured from rattans or reeds, woods, namely: cedar, lignum vitse. lancewood. ebony, box. grandma, mahogany, rosewood, satinwood and all forms of cabinet woods in the log, rough or hewn., bamboo or rattan, unmanufactured; briar root, or briar wood, and similar wood unmanufactured, reeds and sticks of partridge, hairwood. pimento, orange, myrtle and other woods, in the rough or not further manufactured than cut into lengths suitable for sticks for umbrellas, parasols, sunshades. whips or walking canes; all wool of the sheep, hair ot the camel, goat, alpaca and other like animals: and all wool and hair o. the skin, noils, yam waste, card waste, bur waste, rags and Sags, including all waste or rags, composed wholly or in part of wool Both copper ores and pig copper are made free, wo being large exporters of the latter, and the duty serving only to enable the pro-, ducer to sell higher to our people than to foreigners. Nickel is free. Lead ore has a small duty of 15 per cent., and pig lead 1 cent a pound. Silver lead ores are restored to the free list. Unmanufactured lumber is free. Manufactured is put at 25 per cent., with the proviso that in any export duties or charges on foreign lumber it shall be admitted only at the rates now existing. Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal with. Raw sugar was transferred to the tree list by the McKinley bill, because nearly all the taxes paid on it went to the publlo treasury. A strong desire amongst members of the committee was to put an ad valorem duty of 30 or 85 per cent, on it and to abolish the bounty at once. After much consideration it was decided to reduce to one-half the duty on refined sugars and to repeal the bounty oneeighth each year, leaving raw sugar untaxed at present. In the tobacco schedule those rates were sought which would bring most revenue. The present taxes of fS.75 per pound on wraps of leaf have blotted out many small establishments and actually-impaired the revenue. [The woolen goods schedule does not take effect until July 1. 1)191, although the remainder of the bill takes effect March 1. 1891. THE IDEAL PARLOR. A Few of the Things Which It Is Not Are Here Enumerated. Nome drawing-rooms seem to have been arranged for the special purpose of making conversation in them an absolute impossibility. The chairs are primly arranged, the tables have a “set” look, the very cushions on the lounges sit bolt upright The woman who ventures upon a remark on any subject but the weather in such a room feels that she has committed an impropriety. Tete-a-tetes ere impossible. Groups are impossible. Whatever is said must be shouted aloud to the whole assembly.

mere are omer rooms wnere noming but rickety tables, spindle-legged chairs, palms, and curtained recesses are to be found. The unfortunate guest is bound to knock over a table or fall against a cabinet, or overthrow a tall lamp in her progress from the door to the hostess’ corner. Such a room has attractions only for the young person with a fondness for “solitude a deux” behind portieres or banks of ferns, and she is not an important enough being to have her tastes so considered., In the ideal drawing-room the chairs are near enough together to allow of confidential chatting, and far enough apart to make more than one group a possibility. The tables unite grace and strength, and will not topple over at the swish of a skirt. The light is not so dim as to make the newcomer feel that'she is walking by faith and not by sight, nor yet so bright as to bring out every wrinkle on her face. There is plenty of room for movement, and yet no sense of bareness. But such a draw-ing-room is a rare apartment.—Chicago Times. —She—"Oh, the liony of life! <he man who wrote ‘Home, Sweet Home’ never had a home.” He—“Yea And the fellow who wrote *The Man in the Moon’ was not a lunatic’”—Kate field’s Washington.

RUNS THE GAUNTLET. Admiral Mello Forced i Pmm$« P»*t the Forti* <> uardlng Rio Janeiro Harbor, and the Aquidaban It Now on the High Seam. Probably la Qacat of the Nictherojr and the America. Loxdox, Dec. 9.—A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Co. from Bio Janeiro states that the insurgent admirel, Mello, has finally succeeded in forcing a passage past the forts guarding the entrance of the hay of Bio Janeiro and that his flag ship; the Aquidaban. is now on the high seas. The passage was not effected until some desperate fighting had been done. The entrance is guarded by Fort Sao Joao and a .water battery on the strip of land extending northeast from the sugar loaf. Fort Lage, Fort Santa Cruz and Fort Pico. Advices from another source state that when the Aquidaltan was seen approaching the forts a heavy fire was directed against her. She replied briskly and the fight was kept up until she ran past the forts and was out of range. It was seen that some of the shots from the forts took effect, and it is believed the Aquidaban sustained considerable damage. The government forees, particularly the troops manning the water battery, suffered severely from the effects of the rapid-fire guns on board the war ship. Considerable damage is said to have been done to the forts by the big guns of the Aquidaban. which appear to have been well served. The government forces generally suffered severely.

After the Aqnidaban was- out of range she stood away for the south. It is conjectured at Rio de Janeiro that she will effect repairs as rapidly as possible at sea and then cruise in the vicinity of Cape Struro to intercept the Nictheroy and America, the improvised war ships now on their way from New York to reinforce President Peixoto. In the house of commons last evening a member said he had heard a report that President Peixoto had been assassinated and asked if the government had any such information. Sir Edward Grey, parliamentary secretary of the foreign office, replied that the government had received nf word concerning any attempt a Peixoto's life. PUBLIC DEBT STATEMENT. A Large Balance on the Wrong Side off the Sheet. Washington, Dec. a.—The public debt statement issued yesterday afternoon shows a net increase in the public debt, less cash in the treasury, during November of $6,716,138.47. The interest-bearing debt increase is $180,000, thfe noninterest-bearing debt decreased $378,336.50 and the cash in the treasury decreased $7,094,674.07. The balances of the several classes of debt at the close of business on November 30 were: Interest-bearing debts.1518,089,220 00 Debt on which interest has ceased since maturity. 1.939.380 26 Debt bearing no interest......37I.5S9.715 87 Total.$961,568,310 13 The certificates and treasury notes, offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, outstanding at the end of the month, were $599,229,302.00, an increase o£$11,019,441.00. The total cash in the treasury was $734,830*433.83. The gold reserve was $82,959,048. Net cash balance $12,240,567.78. During the month there was a decrease in gold coin and bars of $2,158,043.26, the total at the close being $161,122,128. Of silver there was an increase of $52,123.67. Of the surplus there was in national bank deposits $71,220,992, against $20,421,87.0.87 at the end of the previous month. ON WAITING ORDERS. Admiral Stanton Reports Hla Arrival to tlie Navy Department. Washington, Dec. 2.—Admiral Stanton, late in command of the United States squadron in -the Brazilian waters, has made known his return to the navy department. Considering the rather peculiar status of the admiral, who was relieved from his command because of his recognition of Mello, the rebellious Brazilian naval' commander, it might be supposed that he would avail himself of the opportunity afforded by his communication to say something in the nature of an explanation. But as a matter of fact the admiral’s letters, of which there are two, are models of brevity, so short indeed ns to convey, perhaps, a sense of wounded dignity. In his first letter the admiral reports his arrival at New York in conformity with the requirements of. the naval regulation; in the second her simply states his address in New London. Technically the officer is on waiting orders, and probably he will remain at his home in New London until he receives further orders from the secretary of the navy.

»ot a Hoom Standing In Kuchan, Feral*. Recently Visited by Earthquakes. London, Dec. 9.—A special dispatch to the Times from Neshed says that the town of Knchan, in northern Persia, a brief story of the destruction of which by earthquake has been told in these dispatches, is a heap of ruins. Not a house is standing- in the place. The recovery of the bodies of those who perished in the disaster is proceeding-. The odor from the putrefying remains is horrible. The dispatch adds that the shocks were preceded by loud reports in the hills west of the town. The shocks continue in the place where the town stood and the vicinity. Assessed Valuation of Kentucky Ballroads—Little Increased Mileage. Frankfort, Ky., Dec. 2.—The railroad commissioners yesterday submitted an abstract of their report to-the governor, from which Commissioner Woodson furnishes the statement that the total assessment of all the railroads in the state has been fixed at $57,319,555, which is an increase of a little more than $5,000,000 over that of last year, and more than $23,000,090 over the valuation placed upon these railroads by the companies themselves. The increased mileage was oijtly 59.087 miles

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