Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — MORRISON’S TARIFF BILL [ARTICLE]

MORRISON’S TARIFF BILL

An Aggregrate Reduction to the Free List of ,35,500,000. [Washington telegram.] Mr. Morrison’s tariff bill was introduced in the House on Tuesday, the 15th inst. Mr. Morrison says that the bill will effect an estimated reduction of in the revenues from customs, based on the revenues of last year. The greatest reduction on any 1 one article is in the case of sugar, where the new duty will result in a decrease of $10,000,000 in the receipts. The additions to the iree fist will involve a loss of $5,500,000, and'the reductions made bv the bill on other articles about $5,000,000. Added to the free list are lumber, timber, unmanufactured wood, lath, shingles, salt, hemp, jute, iron, sulphur; lead and copper ores, and coal. Besides these there are many articles of less consequence to the revenue, such as potatoes, hay, com, bristles, beeswax, dye-woods, unmanufactured earths, undressed stone for building purposes, acoms, and dandelion. The bill provides that from and after July 1. 188 G, the following fates of duty shall take effect: Wood (manufactured), for each side planed or finished, 50 cents per 1,000 feet, board measure. Cotton thread, yam warps, or warp yam, valued at fj-orri 25 cents to $1 per pound, 8 cents to 36 cents per pound, according to quality. When valued at more than $1 per pound, 40 per cent, ad valorem. The principal reductions on cotton cloths are in the coarser material. Metals—lron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel-iron, wrought and cast scrap-iron, and scrap-steel, i cent per pound. Iron railway bars, weighing more than twentyfive pounds to t! the yard, $12.50 per ton. Steel railway bars and railway bars made in part of steel, weighing more than twehtyJ five pounds to the yard, $12.50 perton. Iron or steel L rails weighing not over twentyfive pounds to the yard, and iron or steel flat rails, punched, sls per ton. There is a slight reduction on bar and rolled iron, iron beams, girders, etc. There is also some reduction in lead and copper. Sugar—On all sugar, JsO per centum of the several duties and rates of duties now imposed on said sugar, inoperative as to sugars from countries laying export duties. Wools and Woolens—Wools of the third class, such as Donskol, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, and including all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Egypt, Smyrna, and elsewhere, 2.8 cents per pound. Woolen cloths, woolen shawls, and all manufactures ■of wool of every description, or wholly or in part of wool, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, valued at not exceeding 80 cents per pound, 25 cents per pound and 30 per centum ad valorem. Flannels, blankets, hats of wool, knit goods, and all goods made on knitting-frames, balmorals, woolen and worsted yarns, and all manufactures of every description composed wholly or in part of worsted, the hail of alpaca, the goat, or other animals (except such as are composed iu part of wool), not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, valued at not exceeding 30 cents per pound, 8 cents per pound; above 30 and not exceeding 40 cents, 10 cents per pound; above 40 and not. exceeding 60 cents, 16 cents per pound; above 60 and not exceeding 80 cents, 20 cents per pound; and 3 in addition thereto, upon all the abovenamed articles, 35 per centum ad valorem. Woolens and children’s dress goods, coat linings, Italian cloths, and goods of like description, composed in part off wool, worsted, the hair of alpaca, goat, or other animals, valued at not exceeding 20 cents per square yard, 5 cents per square yard, and in addition thereto 30 per centum ad valorem; valued at above 20 cents per square yard. 7 cents per square yard and 35 per centum ad valorem; if composed wholly of wool, worsted, the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other animals, or a mixture of them 8 cents per square yard and 35 per centnni ad valorem: but all such goods with selvedges made wholly or iu pail of other materials, or with threads of other materials iutioduced for the purpose of changing the classification, shall be dutiable at 8 cents per square yard and 35 per centum ad valorem; provided tbatall such goods weighing over 4 ounces per square yard shall pay a duty of 35 cents per pound and 35 per cent, ad valorem.

Slight but general reductions ran through the wool schedule, and have also been made in the cases of flax, linen, and hemp,’ window glass, plate glass of high quality, earthenware, glassware, and china where the duty is believed to be excessive. The duty on rice, marble, castor beans, and a few chemicals is also slightly reduced. (Opposition to tlio Kill. [Washington special.! The Republican members of the Ways and Means Committee met Monday evening at the residence of one of their number, with a few other prominent Republicans, to review the general tariff bill and consult as to the policy to be pursued in regard to it. Iu outline, their policy will be to delay the bill as much as possible in committee, both by amendment and.by insisting upon hearing oral argument from the interests that would be affected by the proposed change in the existing law. The real object of this is to’ keep the bill from being reported to the House until late iu the session. They j will also insist upon having full discussion in the House, which means that they will kill as much time as possible, so that the bill may reach the Senate too late for cofisideration this session, if it reaches that body at alb The general idea approved by the Republican leaders is that a policy of orderly obstruction should bepursued. The Democratic members of the committee have already "decided that it is not necessary to grant an audience to persons who desire to make arguments against the bill, but but that in exceptional cases it may be only fair to hear oral statements. Printed statements cau be laid before the committee at anytime.