Here's Your Tariff Bill

Washington City, March a.- The longexpected tariff bilí was submitted Thursday by tüe sub-coiumittee having charge of tha suhiect to the lull wavs and means tee,aad Mills, chairman of tbe committee, tbus e x - pre8sed himself to a Unitd Press reporter in regard thereto: "To begin with, let U3 glance at tbe free Hst. There are 200 or 300 articles on which the duty is to be re moved. A largo nuiuber of these articles thus placed on the free list. are of minor importance, and the change can in iiowise affect our industries; and whero a countr charges an import duty npon aiiy of the articles uamed the present duty will remain. 'ihe principal item islumber, and astosomeof the articles placed on the f ree list the result will be to break up a few of the numnrous trusts novv forming in the country. Copper is an instance. The total amount of reducís on that will arise from the extensión of the free list will be something líke $22,000,000. The reduction on wool and woolen goods will amount to about f 12,000,000. Where a specific duty was charged befóte we have chauged it on a numher of munufactured articJes to an ad valorem standard. "On sugar a reduction is made of $11,000,000. One result of this will be to break up the infamous sugar trusts that have formed for the purpose of increasing the price of that article. The reductions on iron and steel rails, etc., are small, and I think the importation of such articles will not be matenally increased. Iron in pig is put at $6 per ton. The reduction made is only 72 cents. On imported tobáceo, in leaf, mauufactured and not stemmed, we have flxed the duty at 35 cents per pound. Sumatra is included. VVhen the duty on Sumatra was $1 per pound, a good deal of it was smugglpd and the revea ue was thereby lost to the government. "On 8ome of the articles on which we have reduced the duty the revenue will be increased, while on others it will be reduced. Fish we have not toucheiL That questiou has alwayscaused trouble between tbis country and Canada, and involves disputes that we don't care to encourage. We have purposoly left the internal revenue question outside, and wH bring in a separate measure for that. We intend to have a bilí on that subject. It may be appended in the house to the general bilí, bu tbat I am unable to say just uow. Thecustoms duties wiil be reduced ubout $55,000,000, and in such a way that the manufacurin; industries of the country will have no cause for needless alarm." The bilí reduces the revenue,by the closest estímate which can now be made by about f53,0K),u00, of which $2i,ï50.00o comes trom extensión of the free list, $12,000,000 from woolens, $11,000,000 from sugar, $1.500,000 from eartben and glaasware nearly $2,000,000 from metáis, $500, GOO from ehemicals, $500,000 from provisions, $250,000 from cottons, nearly $L,000,000 from hemp, jute, etc., and about $10.000,000 from sundries. The following additional expressions wers gathered from members of the ways and rueans committee: Mills - We believe we have compile! a bilt which nobody dare defeat. It is a bilí which wnuld benefit all the people. Breckenridge of Arkansas- It is a bilí which will certainly pass. MacMillan- The bill is subject to no reasouablB objection. It does uoo injure a single indnstry. Reed- Gud is still good to the Republican party. McKinley- The bill is in line with the president's message, and worse. It must be defeated. Randall will not discuss the bill with the news paper men, but soma of his congressional friends to whom he has unbosom-"d himself quote him as faving that tbe bill is not a revisión of the tariff at all, but an attuck on it with a tomahawk. A careful exnmination of the bill shows that the froe list has been enlarged by the addition of the following articl -s, the moso important heing given: Timber- Hewn sawed, squared, or slded; spars and wharf timber. Wood-Manufactured, not specially enumerated or provided for; sawed boards, planks, deals, and all other artielea oL sawed lumher; hnbs for wheels, posts, lasts, wagon blocks, heading blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rougb-hewn or sawed ouly: staves. pickets. paling, lath, sbingles, clap-boards, pino or spruce logs. [None of the above are free wuere the country exporting tliem charges an export duty on them. and a similar exee.ption is made on anieles where an import rtutv is charged un sucb articles exportad from the United States.] Salt, in bugs, Backs, barrels or otuer packuges, or in bulk. F ax. straw flax not hackle1 or dressed: flax, haekled (known as dressed linen tow of flax or hemp; hemp, manilla, and other lilte substitutes for htmp; jute butts, jute; vegetable fibers: burlaps, not exceeding sixty in width, of flax, jute or hemp. or of which flax, jute or hemp. or either of thom, shall be the component material of chief valne. Bagging fir or other manufact-mvs not Kpeciauy enumerated or provided for in this act, composed in whole or part of hemp, Jute, jute butts, flax, gunny bags gunny cloth. orof olher ma erial, próvido 1 that a to hemp and ftax, jute, jute lutts, siinn and sisagrass, añil manufactures thereof, exct pt burlaps ñot exceedinff sixty in'-hes in width and bagging for cotton, this act shall take effect July 1, 1889. Tin and tfrn plates and taggers tin; bepswax, gelatine and all similar preparationa: glyoeiine, crude, brown or yellow; ftsh glue or isinglass; phosphorus, soap stocks, flt only for use as such; soap, hard and soft, all of which are not otherwiHe specially enumeratl or )irovided for; extract of hemlock and other bark ustnl for t&iininfr crotón oil, hempseed and rapes'ed oil. iaxw'l oil. cotton-seed oil, petroleum, alumini. whiting and paris white, blue vitrol, oopperas, pootash, cnid1, carbonnt1 of, or fusel and caustic potash; chlorate of potasta and salrpctr crudo, sulphatt) of potash, wrxxl tar, crude coal tar. analine oil and its homologues, coal tar and product of. sin-h as naphrha ; oen.im, lu-nziole, deiui oil and pitoh, uil preparations of coaltar -not oohrs or dyt!s ana not ad Is of colors - anddves: logwood and otixer dye-woods, extract and decoctiona of: spirits of turpeutine, ocber and ochrv earths, umiier and umber rai-tlis sienna and sionna earths, when dry: all prepa rationa known as essential oil, ex pressed oils, distilled oils, rendereJ oiis; aUialine, alkaloids and all o mmnntions thereof. All barks, beans, berries, haisams, buds. bulbs, bulbous roota and fxcrts'i('rKt's suon as nutalls. fmlts, Howers, dr.ed flbetN, grains, gums and gutn ifsins, herbs, leaves Qchens, mits, roots and tems of vegetabl -s, se -ds, and 8eed8 of morbid gi-owth, weeds, woods usint expressly for dyeing, and dried insects. All non-d titiabla orude matenals. but whii-ii have been aivauL-isl in valne or condition by reflning or grinding or by other prooess of manufacture, not sijccially enumerated or pruviileil f t. All eanhs or olays unwrouglit or unmanufactured. Opium, orude, containlng II per cent. and over of morpoia for mudical purposes. Iron and ste -1 cotton fies or boops for baling purposes, not tlnnnerihan No. ■-( wire gau re. Needtes - Sewing. darnin, knittingand all others not specially enumerated or provuled for in this a't Copper Imponed In the form of orea, regulus of, and black ur course t-opper, and cop er cenient; old copper, fit only for manufa ture. Mm -ral sul stinces iu a iTude state and metáis unwrought not specially enumeraied or provided for. Bnrk. Vegetables, in their natural stato. or in salt or brine: cliicory root gronnd or unground, burnt or prepared. and all oth'T article - used. or intended to be used. a.s ciffee or substance Iherefore, not spwrially enumeiatod or provuled for; cocoa, prepared or manufiu-tured: dates, pluma and pnines; currants; Za iti,or other fi.; meate, game poultry; beans, pears and si li peas. Pulp for paper makers' use. Bib es, books and pamphlets printed in other languages thaix EtigUii, and books and pamhlets fur all pu licatior.s rf foreign societies historical or scien ific, printd for gratuitou ilistribution. Bristles, bu bs and bulbous roots not medical, feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed, colored or manufactured; hemp and sed and other oü seeds of like charai-ter, lime, garden eeds, linseed or flaxseed, marule of all kinds, in bloolr, rough or squarwd; osier or willow, rattans and reed, manu tac turud, but not made up into fijoiahed articlea Palm inga in oil or water oolors, and staruary not otherwise provided for; Stones, unnmnufaeturedor un Irassod, f ree stone, granite, saud Ktone and all building or mouumentaí sumes; talluw, brooni cora. The but also provides for admitting free of duty after Jaly 1 "all wools, hair oí the alpaca goat, and othar live animáis, wools on the skin, woolen rags, shoddy mongo, waste and flocks." Amotig the artioles upon which the duty is rèducd are the following, the duty buing liniitfd to the figures ei ven: rif? iron $6 per ton; iron railway bars, $7; steel railway bars, $11; bar iron, rolled or hammeroil, % of 1 cent per pou?l; not less than 1 inch wide and%ofan inch thick; in largar measureinent, 1 (vut per pouml; irou slabs, booms, 35 percent, ad valorent; iron bars, blooms, billets in the manufacture of which charcoal s used, $lQ per ton; iron or steel ''T1' rails, $15 a ton; round iron, in coils or rods, and rolled iron, enumerated, 1 ceut per p und; sheet iron (thin), 1 cent per poiiud; blactc taggers (iron) 30 per cent. ; hoop iron, 1 cent per pound ; cast iron pipe, 6 10 of 1 cent per pound; nails, 1 cent per pound; sledges, axle.s, etc. ditto; ctaains, cents per pound: saws, 30 per cent.; files, 35 per cent.; Ingots and bloonia, 4-10 of a cent per pound; copper, unmanufactured, 2 cents per pound; lead, 14 cents per pound; in sheets, 2lÁ cents por pound; zinc spe'ter, 2 oents per pon nu: hollowware, cente per pound; anvils, 1 cents per pound. The entirt vood Bobedule HO per cent.. All giades of sugar are reduced by an amount varyin? from one-flfth to ont?-foirth of the present dilties; cotton yarn is reduced to 35 and 40 per cent., bleached linoofl to ys per cent,, other yarns síB per cent. ; cotton cloth, 40 per cent. Woolen and worsted oods, to 4f) per cent. ; flannels, blankcts and kñit pooda, 40 per cent.; dressgooda, puivly of wooi, 40 per cent.: reatlyraade elothin, 35 ier cent.; cloaks, 45 per cent-; webbings, 50 percent.; oarpets, :1O percent. Paper and íds manufactures gene rally reduced; earriaes, SOperoöut.; watches, 5 par cent. Aniou otner irnportaac cüauytjd gtoss is trentpd as gfiven helow; Flint and lime glassboitles and pressed glassware, 30 pr cent. ad valorem (now W yxt cent); cyllnder andcrown glasa polished, and t clween 84x80 and ütxiX) intjhee square, ir cents per square foot, Above that measurement 5 cents por square foot (now 8 and 4; cents, respecta vely . Unpölished cylinder, crown and commoD wïndow glass, not exceedinfc 1(J by IB Inohes, l cent per pound; above that, and not exceeding 16 by '4, VA cents; above that and not excee 'x & by 81, lé cents; all above, % cents. (Now 1%, %, 2%, %%. All leaf tobocoo unmanufactured, 35 centa pr pound. and the present distinction between Sumatra and ordinary wrapping tobbacco is aboliahed. The bii] incluios a snheme of ci.stoms administration, ït bniní; the Hewitt compilation whicb was inlroduced in the last congressT and it provides for n. w methods of appraising and coilectin the duties.