Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1888 — TARIFF REDUCTION. [ARTICLE]

TARIFF REDUCTION.

The Democratic Bill Reported to the Committee- $55,000,000 Knocked Off. The chairman of the ways and -means committee submitted to the full committee, on the Ist, the tariff bill upon which the Democratic members have been at work for several months. The

free list section is to take effect July next. Among the more important ,*articteß which are placed on the free list are: Timber of all kinds, salt, flax, hemp, jute, etc., cotton bagging tin plates, beeswax, gly cerine, glue, isinglass, soap, hemlock, indigo, licorice, petroleum, alum, all artificial mineral waters, cement,copperas. potash, tar, benzine, logwood, turpentine, ocher, umber, etc., “all wools, hair of the alpaca goat and other animals; wools on the skin; woolen rags, shoddy mengo, waste and flocks,” and a duty of 40 per cent, on woolen and worsted cloths, shawls, etc., etc. All beans, barks, berries, balsams, etc., china, clay or kaoline, opium for medical uses, needles, copper ores, n’ckel in ore, mineral substances in crude state, brick, vegetables, chicory, and all other articles used as coffee or substituted therefor not especially provided forjdates, figs, etc., meat, game and poultry; pulp for paper makers use, bibles, books and pamphlets in foreign languages, bristles, feathers, grindstones, hair, hatters’ fur, seeds, marble, (plaster of Paris 'tags, paintings. The new tariff proposes to fix the duties upon leading commodities named as follows: Pig iron IS, railway iron sll, iron for rails sl4, chains 2c per pound, axes lie per pound, lead l|o per pound, hollowware 21c per pound. The entire wood schedule is subject to a 30 per cent. duty. All grades of sugar are reduced by an amount varying from one-fifth to one-fourth of the present tariff. Cotton yarn is reduced about 35 per cent.; bleached linen 25 per cent; cotton cloth 40 per cent. The manufactures of wool are reduced as follows. Woolen and worsted cloths to 40 per cent.; flannels, blankets and knit goods 40 per cent.; dress goods, partly of wool, 40 per cent.; ready-made clothing 45per cent.; cloaks 45 per cent.; webbings 50 per cent; carpets 30 per cent. Estimate of reductions in revenue enacted by the bill hava not beer completed in detail, but the aggregate, according to the bes- information in the hands of the committee, is fixsd atsss,000,000. Tnis total includes about $22 - 250,000 on account of the free list, $17,250,000 on account of woolen goods, sl,600,000 for china and glassware, $750,000 in the chemical schedule, something less than $590,000 on cotton, sl,500,000 on flax, hemp and jute, and sugar about $11,000,000. There are no internal revenue changes proposed by the bill. This subject was purposely left, for lack of time, to the consideration of the full committee.