Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 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 inst, it 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 and internal-revenue taxes and to enlarge the free list.” Extensive additions to the free list are proposed. The bill, after making modifications to simplify the administration of the custom taws, provides that after tho 30th of June, 1864, the internal-revenue tax on brandy distilled exclusively from apples, peaches, and grapes shall be 10 cento 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; l in Schedule M (wool and woolens) than 70 per cent; and carpets and carpeting shall not pay a higher rate than 35 per cent ad valorem; and in schedules B ana 0 (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 cent, of duties now imposed. On 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 cents a gallon. It repeals tha clause of tho law' pf 1883 which imposes a tax of B-10 of n cent per pound on iron or steel rivet, screw, nail, and fence wire rods, round, in coils and loops, valued at 3J cents or less per pound, and authorizes tho Secretary of the Treasury to refund to any manufacturer of fence-wire or wire-baling ties the amount of dnties which may have been paid on imported iron or steel wire-rods actually used in the manufacture of fence and b&lingties. The fallowing articles are put on the freo list: Salt, in bags, sacks, barrels, (m other packages, or in bulk; coal, slack or culm; coke; coal, bilominons or shale, provided this shall not apply to coal 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 and 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, ore-blocks, gunblocks, heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks rongh 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 manganiferous 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; bay; 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 as coffee or as substitutes therefor, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; jute, jute-butts, .flax-straw, flax not hackled ot 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; bristles; beeswax; Bme; glycerine, crude; extract of hemlock and other bark used for tanning not otherwise enumerated or provided for in this act; indigo, extract of, and carmined; 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, erode; coal tar, products of, snehae 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 ochrjr earths, timber and umber earths, and siennA and sienna earths; all earths or clays unwiought or unmanufactured not specially enumerated or provided for in this act; all barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, and bnlbons roots and excrescences, such as nutgalls, fruits, flowers, dried Abets, pains, gums, and gum resins, herbs, braves, 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 port, by dipping or any otli<^process, and commercially known as plates, teme plates, and tag-gers-in; wools of the third class, commonly known as carpet wools; asphaltum; living animals ;coppcras, or sulphate of iron; microscopes imported by physicians for professional use, nnd not for sale; copper in ingots, old copper, regains of oopper; goatskins; rags; books in foreign languages, and professional books not published in the United States, imported iu single copies, for use and not for sale; crada borax, refined borax, and boracic acid; 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 prowhere such fees constitute all or part of the compensation of any such officer the latter shall receive iiilicn 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 alcohol, subject to the internal revenue tax, in specific quantities, of net less than 300 proof gallons, without payment ot Internal revenue tax on same or on the spirits from which it may have been distilled, for the sole purpose of use iu indnstrial onrsuits.