CHAPTER XLV. WHAT THE MILLS BILL IS. A COMPLETE SHOWING BY SCHEDULE OF THE REDUCTION PROPOSED IN THE BURDENS OF TAXATION. The Free List Enlarged for the Benefit of Workingmen and The free list of the present tariff includes 325 paragraphs of the law of 1883. In the Mills Bill 139 additional paragraphs are devoted to the free list, including only a very few more than this number of articles. The carrying, therefore, of these articles to the free list is simply an enlargement of the same, and not a making of it anew. It has been the policy of the country in constructing tariff laws, even those carrying the highest rate of duty, to include in the free list a large number of articles, the importation of which is small, and the necessaries of life produced in other countries and not in this. This same principle has been carried into the present bill, with the addition that certain raw materials of industry have been added to the free list. The section given below represents all the additions made under the present bill: The following tables show in the first column the amount of tariff-tax paid on each $100 worth of imported goods in 1887. The second column shows the amount to be paid under the Mills bill. Where no rate is given there were no importations last year on which to calculate. Square and sided, not specially enumerated or provided for.... Lumber Boards, planks, deals, and other sawed timber, of hemlock, white wood, sycamore and basswood- Not planed or finished.. ARTICLES. Tariff-tax Tariff-t x by the Mills bill. All other articles of sawed lumber, not elsewhere specified- Not planed or finished.... Hubs for wheels; posts; last, wagon, oar, gun, and heading-blocks, and all like blocks or sticks, rough-hewn or sawed only.. Staves of all kinds.. Pickets and palings. Laths.... Shingles Clapboards-- Spruce... Salt in bags, etc.. Salt in bulk.. Flax straw.. Flax, not hackled. Flax tow.... Hemp tow.... Hemp.. Manila and substitutes. Jute butts. Jute.... Sunn.. Logwood and other dye-woods, extracts and decoctions of........ Split pease.. Bibles, and books and pamphlets, not English, not enumerated. Bristles... Wools, hair of the alpaca, goat and other like animals, and manufactures of: Class 1, clothing wools: That is to say, merino, mestiza, metz Value 30 cents or less per pound.. Value over 30 cents per pound..... Washed wool Value (before washing) 30 cents or less per pound.. Value (before scouring) 30 cents or less per pound.. Class 2, combing wools: That is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Value 30 cents or less per pound... Value (before scouring) 30 cents or less per pound.. Scoured wool 854 78 Free. 66 58 51 69 71 74 11 60 92 43 23 Total wools, etc........ $ 36 08 39 DUTIABLE LIST. SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICALS. Glycerine, refined.. Acid, acetic, acetous, or pyroligneous acid, exceeding 1.047 sp. gr.. Cylinder and crown, unpolished, 10 by 15. Glazed tiles, ornamented, not enumerated (dutiable as earthenware). Cylinder and crown, polished, above 24 by 30 to 24 by 60. All above that, none imported... Cylinder and crown, 10 by 15 to 16 by 24. Cylinder and crown, 16 by 24 to 24 by 30.. Cylinder and crown, above 24 by 30. Cast, polished, silvered plate Above 24 by 30, not above 24 by 60.. Porcelain, Bohemian, chemical glassware, etc.. All other manufactures.... Total earthenware and glassware... SCHEDULE C.-METALS. Iron, in pigs and kentledge All other (except spiegeleisen)........ .$ 56 60 50 50 Bars or rails for railways Other railway bars, weighing more than 25 pounds to the yard— Steel, or in part of steel.. |