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THE CANADIAN CRESCENT.
FREEMAN E. UILLSB, Editor fc Fnb'r.
publisitkd every thursday at
CANADIAN. - TEXAS.
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Summary of th« Daily Newa
CONGRESS.
A bill was reported in the Senate on the
27th abolishing the office oí Surveyor-General
for the district of Nebraska and Iowa. The
Senate then took up the bill incorporating
the Nicaragua Canal and after some debate
passed it by a vote of 38 to 15. The Total Dis-
ability Pension bill was then taken up and de-
bated at length. Senator Plumb introduced a
bill for public buildings at Lawrence and Kan-
sas City, Kan. Adjourned—In the House the
resolution directing an inquiry into the circular
issued by Commissioner Black requiring certain
pension claimants to perfcct the prosecution of
their claims within 100 days was tabled. Bills
and resolutions were introduced. After trans-
acting business pertaining to the District of
Columbia a testimonial of respect in memory
of the late W W. Corcoran was placed on the
record and the House adjourned.
Amono the bills introduced into the Sen-
ate on the 28th was one by Senator Sherman
authorizing the issue of circulating notes to Na-
tional Banks to the par value of bonds de-
posited After unimportant business and some
political talk consideration of the Dependent
and Total Disability Pension bill was resumed
in Committee of the Whole. An amendment was
adopted extending its provisions to soldiers
of the Mexican and Indian wars who served
thirty days. Then followed a long talk which
ceased only with adjournment In the House
the Oklahoma bill was further considered in the
morning hour. In Committee of the Whole
public building measures were considered and
a number passed on. When the committee
rose the House adjourned.
In the Senate on the 29t h the bill to estab-
lish a National Art Commission passed. The
bill to provide for the compulsory education of
Indian children passed. The five civilized
tribes are excepted from its provisions. The
Total Disability Pension bill was then
taken up aud a lively debate fol-
lowed without reaching a vote. Ad-
journed After the usual routine work
the House went into Committee of the Whole
for the consideration of the bill authorizing the
Secretary of the Treasury to purchase bonds
with the surplus, and debate continued until the
special order—eulogies upon the late Represen-
tative Moffatt, of Michigan, — was reached.
Eulogies, were delivered and the House ad-
journed.
In the Senate on March 1 the resolution
reported from the Committee on Foreign Rela-
tions requesting the President to negotiate a
treaty with China containing a provision that
no Chinese laborers shall enter the United
States was taken up and after some debate
adopted. The Pension bill was then taken
up and debated until adjournment In
the House the bill forbidding the trans-
mission through the mails of pa-
pers containing lottery advertisements
was reported adversely. The resolution accept-
ing the invitation of the French Republic to
take part in the International Exhibit at Paris
in 1889, was discussed in Committee of the
Whole, also the resolution authorizing a confer-
ence to be held in Washington in 1889, to pro-
vide commercial relations with the Republics of
Central and South America. When the Com-
mittee rose the resolutions passed and the
House adjourned.
The Senate was not in session on the
2d — In the House a resolution was adopted
setting apart each Friday evening, beginning at
7:30 o'clock, for the consideration of pension
and political disability bills. After the report
of committees the House in Committee of the
Whole took up the private calendar and the
"omnibus" bill providing for the payment of a
large number of claims for supplies used by the
army during the war. When the committee
rose the bill passed. At the evening session
twenty-live pension bills and several bills re-
moving political disabilities were passed.
WASHINGTON NOTES.
The President has sent the following
nominations to the House: John E. Car-
land, of Dakota, to be Associate Justice of
the Supreme Couet. of the Territory of Da-
kota; Moses J. Liddell, of Louisiana, to be
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of
the Territory of Montana; Lucius Nash, of
Washington Territory, to be Associate Jus-
tice of the Supreme Court of the Territory
of Washington.
The President has directed that the new
military post at Highwood, near Chicago,
be known and designated as Fort Sheri-
dan, in honor of Lieutenant-General Sheri-
dan.
The Secretary of the Interior has reor-
ganized the force of his immediate office
employed on land appeal cases, with a view
to greater efficiency. The office is at pres-
ent 1,900 cases behind.
The will of the late W. W. Corcoran, of
Washington, was offered forprobateon the
29th. The greater portion of the estate,
which is valued at $3,000,000, is bequeathed
10 his three grandchildren—George P.,
Louise M. and William C. Eustis—to be
held in trust for them for ten years.
The reduction in the public debt during
February amounted to $7,765,336 and since
June 30, or the first seven months of the
current fiscal year, aggregates $73,974,622.
The Mills Tariff bill was published on the
1st. Wool, lumber, salt, flax, jute, bag-
ging, tin plates, soap, oils, copper, opi ¿m,
pulp, works of art and other products were
placed on the free list. The duties on a
large number of articles were also reduced.
The reduction contemplated amounted to
$53,000,000. No change was proposed in tho
internal revenue.
Th* Seoretary of the Treasury has been
advised of an organized movement for the
«migration of German convicts to this
country and has taken steps to guard
against such.
Mr. Gennadius, the new Greek Minister
to the. United States, was officially re-
ceived by the President on the 2d with the
usual formalities.
Fibb in Salamanca, N. Y., the other
morning destroyed three business blocks,
three residences and a rink and their con-
tents, causing $75,000 loss.
The Union Square Theater. New York,
was destroyed by fire on the afternoon of
the ?3th. During the progress of the lire a
number of firemen were seriously injured
by the roof falling in. There were some
narrow escapes from the Morton House,
adjoining, and there were rumors of miss-
ing guests and employes.
Governor Green, of New Jersey, has
vetoed the Local Option High License bill
passed by the legislature.
A terrific boiler explosion occurred at
the Last Chance colliery, near Shamokin,
Pa., recently. The foreman, Israel Starth-
el, was severely and, perhaps, fatally in-
jured. The buildüng and machinery was
much damaged.
The grand jury at New York has refused
to indict Gouid and Sage for larceny of the
Kansas Pacific bonds, the statute of limita-
tions operating as a bar.
During a concert at Wilkesbarre, Pa.,
recently, lima di Murska fainted away on
the stage. An effort was made to resume,
but she was too ill to stand, and was taken
immediately to the hotel. Her life was de-
spaired of.
A serious fire took place in New York
on the 1st, destroying the furniture fac-
tory of Pottier & Stimus, Forty-second
street and Lexington avénue. The loss was
estimated at $1,000,000. A portion of tbe ele*
vated railroad was destroyed during the
progress of the fire.
It is reported in New York that Brazil
will take steps in May to abolish slavery
throughout its domain.
James E. Murdoch, of Cincinnati, the
veteran actor, has been elected president
of the Philadelphia School of Elocution
and Oratory.
Several barges and canal bo«ts in Brook-
lyn, N. Y., were destroyed by fire recently
with their contents. Loss, $60,000.
General John Newton has resigned the
position of Commissioner of Public Works
of New York City in order to accept the
place of Chief of the Coast Survey.
TIIE WEST.
At Fairhaven, Minn., the other night,
while a farmer named Miller and his wife
were at church, their house burned down
and their three children, aged thirteen, ten
and seventeen, who had been locked in,
perished. The explosion of a lantern was
the cause.
Judge E. B. Turner, of the United States
Court for the Western District of Texas,
was reported at the point of death at Aus-
tin. His sickness was Bright's disease.
Justice Harlan, of the United States Su-
preme Court, recently at Indianapolis, Ind.,
refused to grant a new trial to the convicted
ballot forger3.
Firb at Wellington, 111., the other day
destroyed ten buildings in the business
section, causing $40,000 loss.
It is reported in Cincinnati that a local
syndicate has obtained control of enough
Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton stock to
keep the Ives interest out of the manage-
ment.
During a dance at William Handfield's
farm house near West Salem, 111., the other
night, John Sneerly shot and killed Henry
R. Elwell. There was an old grudge be-
tween the parties. Sneerly escaped. He
is about twenty-live years old.
A portion of the new Midland Hotel at
Kansas City, Mo., fell on the 29th. Six or
seven of the workmen were injured, two
supposed fatally. One man was missing,
and it was thought he was dead, buried
under the debris.
At Sutter Creek, Cal., recently the Sut-
ter Hotel rcof was discovered to be on
fire. Fanned by a strong southern gale the
fire soon spread through tho business
houses. The loss was between $100,000 and
$200,000.
The Manistee (Mich.) Salt and Lumber
Company has made an assignment. The
assets are $l,8S0,000 and the liabilities
$i?64,000. The liabilities are composed
mostly of floating indebtedness to banks.
TnE Supreme Court of California has
refused a rehearing of the decision of the
Circuit Court that Sarah Althea Hill was
legally married to the late Senator Sharon.
Two men were fatally and two others
seriously injured in amine near Hancock,
Mich., recently, by a fall of rock.
A tornado or severe storm blew down
several houses and killed one man at New-
ton, Kan., on the evening of the 1st. Storms
were also reported at Raymore, Mo., and
other places.
THIS EOUTJ2.
Colonel E. B. Cash, the famous duelist
and 4 fire eater," who killed Colonel Will-
iam M. Shannon, a prominent lawyer, in a
duel in August, 18S0. and who subsequently
defied the State to arrest him, died in
Chesterfield County, S. C., recently, of
paralysis, aged sixty-six years. He was
buried beside his son, Boggan Cash, a
young desperado who was killed by a
sheriff's posse while resisting arrest for
the murder of the town marshal of Cheraw.
Before the war Colonel Cash owned several
hundred slaves.
Train No. 2 north bound on the St. Louis,
Arkansas & Texas was robbed by three
men near Kingsland, Ark., on the morning
of the 29th. About $10,000 was taken from
the express.
Mrs. Martha Burch, the missing Ken-
tucky heiress, has turned up in Ntchoias-
ville, that State, but has not accounted for
her absence.
The Supreme Court of Alabama has de-
cided the act establishing a colored uni-
versitv to be unconstitutional, on the
ground that the money appropriated was
part ol a fund which had been declared by
the Constitution to be for common schools,
and which could not be used for a univer-
sity.
Eighteen of the twenty-five prisoners
confined in the parish jail at Shreveport,
La., made their escape the other morning.
All of them could have escaped, as all tbe
cells were broken open, but those who re-
mained preferred to do so.
Edwin Barbour, son of Hon. James Bar-
bour, recen tiy shot and killed Ellis Wil-
liams, at Culpepper Court House, Va. The
shooting grew out of a newspaper contro-
versy. Barbour is a nephew of United
States Senator-elect Barbour.
Two small children of Thomas Jones, col-
ored, of Hampton, Va., were burned to
death recently.
A disastrous wreck on the Southern Pa-
cific occurred fifty miles east of San An-
tonio, Tex., recently. As local freight No.
22 was crossing Hondo creek the bridge
gave way when the engine had just passed
over, kiiling Bob Hardesty, a brakeman,
and a San Autonio stockman named Eth-
eridge outright, and breaking both legs of
Conductor George Davidson and Brakeman
Lem Hall.
Tiie other night at Clinton, Ky.t Sam
Price, a white man, who killed a sheriff,
and Bill Roams, colored, who shot a farmer
named Jackson, who caught him in the act
of robbing his hen roost, were taken out of
jail by a mob of fifty masked men and
hanged.
Fire in Winusborough, S. C., the other
day destroyed the Episcopal Church, a
livery stable, two stores and several
smaller buldu^s.
There were rumors recently that Captain
Beecher, son of the late Henry W;rd
Beecher was in some way mixed up with
the opium smuggling scandals. Cap'a n
Beecher is special agent of the Treasury
Department at San Francisco.
Thomas J. Mooney, who on August 3 last
threw what was supposed to have been a
dynamite bomb on the deck of the National
line steamer Queen, has been acquitted oi
the charge on the ground of insanity.
The freight brakemen on the Atlantic &
Pacific railroad recently threatened tc
strike against the extension of the freight
division betweeu Williams and Peach
Springs, Ariz., without extra pay.
General Bragg, the new American Min-
ister, accompanied by his wife and daugh-
ter, arrived in the City of Mexico on the
29th. They were met by a committee ol
prominent American residents.
Pyne, the member of ^prliament who
was arrested in London, was couvicted at
Clonmel, Ireland, of offenses under tbe
Crimes act, and sentenced to six weeks'
imprisonment without hard labor.
Some talk of a compromise of tbe Bur-
lington strike was prevalent on the 29th.
Alonzo Dimmick, the noted insurance
agent defaulter of Buffalo, who fled to Can-
ada to avoid a five years1 term in prison,
died recently at St. Catherines, Ont.
Another avalanche in Italy has killed
many cattle and destroyed a large number
of houses.
to. Wilson, the son-in-law of ex-Presi-
dent Grevy, who has been on trial for com-
plicity in the legion of honor decoration
scandals, has been convicted and sentenced
to two years' imprisonment, to pay a fine of
3,000 francs and to be deprived of his civil
rights for five years.
All the Powers have replied to the Rus-
sian proposals concerning Bulgaria. En-
gland, in her reply, declares that she is
unable to advise the Sultan to take steps
leading to the removal of Prince Ferdinand
before satisfactory measures are proposed
to settle Bulgaria's future alter his re-
moval.
TnE rumors of a compromise of the Bur-
lington railroad strike proved baseless, and
on the 1st the situation was worse thar
ever. The Brotherhood had entered inte
an agreement with the Knights of Labor,
and orders were given for the former's en-
gineers on the Reading road to str ke in
aid of the Knights. The outlook was con-
sidered serious as it was probable the
troubles would involve other roads.
Canadian lumbermen are especially
pleased with the provision of the new
Tariff bill placing lumber on the free list.
TnE final transaction in the deal for the
removal of Libby prison from Richmond,
Va., to Chicago has been completed and
the famous building will be removed at
once.
The Speaker of the British House of
Commons has invited Justin McCarthy,
Irish Nationalist, to join tho panel of five
deputy Speakers created under the.new
procedure rules.
The Bishop of Cork permitted the body
of the late Stephen J. Meany * to be placed
in the Cathedral there on the condition
that there was no political demonstration.
TnE condition of of the Crown Prince of
Germany was reported alarming cn the 2d.
A Vienna paper stated that one of the at-
tending physicians had nearly choked hiir
to death, owing to lack of experience.
Business failurss (Dun's report) for the
seven days ended March 1 numbered foi
the United States, 202; Canada, 42; total,
244, compared with 270 the previous week
and 273 the corresponding week last year.
THE LATEST.
Clearing house returns for week ended
March 3 showed an average decrease of
17.4 compared with the corresponding week
of last year. There was a decrease in
most of the cities reporting, reaching 20.8
iu New York.
Another attempt will be made to have
Gould and Sage indicted. The case will be
reopened before the new grand jury in New
York on the plea that the court had no
right to instruct the last grand jury that
the statute of limitations operated, there
being a difference of opinion in that view.
The hamlet of Trasquera, at the foot of
the Simplón mountain, and another hamlet,
in the Bini valley, have been destroyed by
five persons were killed.
A dispatch from Rome says: The bodies
of over two hundred victims of the recent
avalanches in the Italian Alps have been
recovered.
Suakim, on the Red Sea, was attacked by
a large force of rebels, but after four hours'
fighting the assailants retired, leaving
several hundred killed and wounded on the
field. On the British side Colonel Tap and
five Egyptians were killed aud fourteen
wounded.
The anniversary of the birth of Rob-
ert Emmett was celebrated at Dub-
lin on the 4th. Michael Davitt presided at
a large meeting of Nationalists assembled
to mark the occasion, and Lord Mayor Sul-
livan was the principal speaker.
A dispatch from Tamatava, Madagascar,
says a hurricane has devastated that place.
Eleven vessels were wrecked and twenty
persons killed.
The Senate was not in session on the 3d.
The House took up the Pacific Railroad
Telegraph bill, and after an animated de-
bate it was passed—yeas, 197; nays, 4.
County Treasurer Fred Ruoff and his
nephew, J. Harry Ruoff, with Mayor F. W.
Harwood, were arrested and jailed at
Marfa, Tex., recently charged with rob-
bing Sheriff Neville's vault of funds to the
amount of $15,000. Strong evidence is at
hand to show implication of Treasurer
Ruoff, and his neptiew is supposed to have
been in collusiou with him.
Business was inactive on the London
Exchange during the week ended March 3,
every thing dropping. Foreign securities
were sold heavily, especially Russian.
American railroads also felL The Paris
Bourse was firm and quiet. The Berlin
holders attempted to dispose of Russian
securities at the decline. At Frankfurt
prices were quiet and weak.
A report has been received that four
boys were drowned in Turtle creek, three
miles northwest of DaHas, Tex. Particu-
lars could not be obtained.
The Mississippi State Senate has passed
a bill appropriating $10,000 for a Confederate
monument. ,■'>
Attorney-General Garland has caused
to be prepared a bill of complaint addressed
to the Judges of the United States Circuit
Court for the District of Kansas, bringiug
suit against Magnus Swenson, the purpos.-
being to cancel the sorghum sugar patents
'taken out by him. .
THE TARIFF BILL.
The Bill to Revise the Tariff at Last Com-
pleted aud Made Public—Articles Added
to tl «* Free List, Toother wltli Changes
aud Modifications iu Others.
Washington, March 2.—The chairman
of the ways and means committee yester-
day submitted to the full committee the
Tariff bi!I, upon which tbe Democratic
members have been at work for some
months. The measure was immediately
made public. The bill makes the following
additions to the list of articles which may
be imported free of duty. The free list
section is to take effect July 1, 1SSS:
Timber hewn or sawed and timber used for
spars and in building wharves. Timber squared
or sided. Wood, manufactured, not specially
enumerated or provided for. Sawed boards,
planks, deals and all other articles of sawed
lumber. Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks,
wagon blocks, oar blocks, gun blocks, heading
blocks and all like blocks or sticks, rough
hewn or sawed only. Staves of wood,
pickets and palings, laths, shingles,
clapboards, pine or spruce logs: provided, that
if any port duty is laid upon the above-men-
tioned articles, or either of them, by any coun-
try whence imported, all said articles imported
from said country shall be subject to duty as
now provided by law. Salt in bags, sacks,
barrels or other packages,or in bulk, when im-
ported from any country which does not charge
an import duty upon salt exported from the
United States. Flax straw. Flax, not hackled
or dressed: flax, hackled, known as dressed
line; tow of flax or hemp; hemp, manilla and
other like substitutes for hemp. Jute butts,
jute, sunn, sisal grass and other vegetable
fibres. Burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in
width, of flag, jute or hemp, or of which flax,
jute or hemp, or either of them, shall be the
component material of chief value. Bagging
for cotton or other manufactures, not specially
enumerated or provided for in this act, suit-
able to the uses for which cotton bagging is ap-
plied, composed in whole or in part of hemp,
jute, jute butts, flax.gunnybags, gunnycloth or
other material; provided that as to hemp and
flax, jute, jute butts, sunn, and sisal grass
and manufactures thereof, except burlaps not
exceeding sixty inches in width and bag-
ging for cotton. Iron or steel sheets
or plates, or taggers' iron, coated with
tin or lead or with a mixture of which
these metals is a component part, by the dip-
ping or any other process and commercially
known as tin plates, terne plates and taggers'
tin. Beeswax, gelatine and all similar prepa-
rations. Glycerine, crude, brown or yellow.
Fish glue or isinglass. Phosphorus. Soap
stocks, fit only for use as such. Soap, hard and
soft, all of which are not otherwise specially
enumerated or provided for. Extract of hem-
lock and other bark used for tanning. Indigo,
extracts of, and carmine. Iodine, resublimed.
Licorice juice. Oil. croton, hempseed and rape
6eed oil.Flaxseed or linseed oil. Oil,cotton seed.
Petroleum. Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum
substitute, sulphate of alumina and aluminous
Ciike. and alum in crystals or ground. All im-
itations of natural mineral waters and all arti-
ficial mineral waters. Baryta, sulphate of, or
barytes, unmanufactured. Boracic acid, bor-
ate of lime and borax. Cement, Roman, Port-
land. and all others. Whiting and paris white.
Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol. Iron, sul-
phate of, or copperas. Potash, crude, carbon-
ate of, or fused and caustic potash. Chlorate
of potash and nitrate of potash or saltpeter,
crude. Sulphate of potash. Sulphate of soda,
known as salt cake, crude or refined,
or niter cake, crude or refined and
glaubers salt. Sulphur, refined in rolls.
Wood tar. Coal tar, crude. Analineoil and its
homologues. Coal tar, products of, such as
nnptha, benzine, benzole, dead oil and pitch.
All preparations of coal tar not colors or dyes,
and not acids of colors and dyes. Logwood and
other dyewoods. extracts and decoctions of.
Spirits turpentine. B neblnck, ivory drop
black and bone charcoal. Ochre and ochery
earths, umber and umber earths, sienna and
sienna earths, when dry. All preparations
known as essential oils, expressed oils, distilled
oils, rendered oils, alkalies, alkaloids and all
combinations of any of the foregoing and chem-
ical compounds and salts by whatever name
known, and not specially enumerated
or provided for in this act. All barks,
beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs, bulbous,
roots and excrescences,such as nut-galls, fruits,
flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums and gum-
resins, herbs, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and
stems, vegetables, seeds and seeds of morbid
growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dye-
ing and dried insects. All non-dutiable cru le
minerals, but which have been advanced in
Value or condition by refining or grinding, or
by other process of manufacture, not especially
enumerated or provided for. All earths or
clays unwrought or manufactured. China clay
orkaoline. Opium, crude, containing nine per
cent, and over of morphia for medicinal pur-
poses. Iron and steel cotton ties or hoops for
baling purposes, not thinner than number
twenty wire gauge. Needles, sewing, darning,
knitting and all others not especially enumerat-
ed or provided for in this act. Copper, import-
ed in the form of ores, regulus of, and
black or coarse copper and copper cement, old
copper fit only for remanufacture. Nickel, in
ore, matte, or other crude form not ready for
consumption in the arts. Antimony, as re-
gulus or metal. Quicksilver. Cnromate of
iron or chrome ore. Mineral substances in a
crude state or metals unwrought or not spec-
ially enumerated or provided for. Brick.
Vegetables in their natural state or in salt or
brine. Chicory root, ground or unground,
burnt or prepared acorns, and dandelion root,
raw or prepared, and all other articles used at
or intended to be used as coffee or subtitutes
therefor and not specially enumerated or pro-
vided for. Cocoa, prepared or manufactured.
Dates, plums and prunes, currants, seante or
other. Figs. Meats, game and poultry. Milk,
fresh. Egg yelks. Beans, peas and split peas.
Pulp for paper makers' use. Bi-bles, books and
pamphlets, printed in other languages than En-
glish, and books and pamphlets and all publica-
tions of foreign Governments, and publica-
tions of foreign societies, historical or scien-
tific, printed for gratuitous distribution. Bris-
tles. Bulbs and bulbous roots, not medicinal.
Feathers of all kinds, crude or not dressed,
colored or manufactured. Finishing powder.
Grease. Grindstones, finished or unfinished.
Curled hair for beds or mattrasses. Human
hair, raw, uncleaned and not drawn. Hatters'
fur. not on the skin. Hemp and
rape seed and other oil seeds of
like character, Lime. Garden seeds.
Linseed or flaxseed. Marble of all kinds in
block, rough or squared. Osier or willow, pre-
pared for basket-makers' use. Broomcorn,
Brush-wood. Plaster of paris, when ground or
calcined. Bags, of whatever material com-
posed. Rattans and reeds manufactured but
not made up into finished articles. Paintings
in oil or water colors and statuary, not other-
wise provided for; but the term "statuary"
shall be understood to include professional pro-
ductions of statuary or of a sculptor
only. Stones, unmanufactured or un-
dressed, free stone granite, sand stone,
and all building or monumental stone.
All strings of gut or any other like ma-
terial. Tallow. Waste, all not specially enu-
merated or provided for. All wools, hair of the
alpaca goat, and other like animals. Wools on
the skin. Woolen rag3, shoddy, mungo waste
and flocks.
The reductions made under the earthen ancí
glassware schedules are as follows: China
and porcelain to 40 and 40 per cent. Brown
earthenware and common stoneware. ^0 per
cent, other earthenware, 85 per cent. Tiles, 2J,
30, and 50 per cent. Green and colored glass
bottles, etc., three-fourths of a cent per pound.
Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not ex-
ceeding a measurement of two feet by five feet*
15 cents per square foot; above the size
named, 25 cents per foot. Unpolished
cylinder, crown and common window-glass,
1 cent to líí of a cent per pound
according to size. Cast polished-plate glass,
unsilvered, from 2 to 40 cents per foot,,
according to size. Unsilvered. or looking-glass,
from 25 to 45 cents, according to size.
Porcelain and Bohemian glass, stained glass,
etc., 40 per cent, ad valorem.
Metals are to pay duties as follows: Pig iron..
ffi per ton. Iron railway bars. Hi. Steel, ditto,
til. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, % oi
1 cent per pound, not less than one inch
wide and three-eighths of an inch thick; in
larger measures, 1 cent per pound. Iron slabs,
blooms, loops, 3" per cent, ad valorem..
Iron bars, blooms, billets, in the manufacture
of which charcoal is used, $,*0 per ton. Iron oi
steel T-rails, 115 per ton. Round iron in coils
or rods and rolled iron enumerated 1 cent
per pound. Sheet-iron thin, 1 cent per
pound. Black taggers'iron, 30 p*T cent. Hoop
iron, 1 cent per pound. Cast iron pipe,.
6-10 of a cent per pound. N*ils, 1 cent
per pound. Tacks, 35 per cent.
Anvils, anchors, etc., 14 cents per pound.
Rivits, etc., 14 cents per pound.
Hammers, tubes, sledges, axles, etc.,
ditto. Chains, 2 cents per pound. Saws, 8C
per cent. Files, 35 per cent. Ingots and|blooms,
4-10 of a cent per pound. Wire ard manu-
factures thereof are left unchanged, pro-
vided that no duty exceeds 50 per cent. Old
copper clippings, 1 cent per pound. Copper,
unmanufactured, 2 cents per pound. Lead 13C
cents per pound; in sheets, 21*, cents per pound.
Nickel in ore. 10cents per pound; zinc spelter,.
2 cents per pound. Hollow-ware, 24
cents per pound. Machine needles, 20 pet
cent. The entire wood schedule is subjected tc-
30 per cent. duty. All grades of sugar are re-
duced by an amount varying from one fifth
to one-fourth of the present duty. Cot-
ton yarn is reduced to 35 and 40 per cent.
Bleached linens to 25 per cent. Other yarns
25 per cent. Cotton cloth to 40 per cent. The
manufactures of wool are reduced as follows::
Woolen and worsted cloths to 40 per ncnt.
Flannels, blankets and knit goods 40 per ¿íent.
Dress goods, partly of wool, 40 percent. Ready-
made clothing, 45 per cent. Webbings, 50 per
cent. Carpets, 30 per cent. Paper and its
manufactures are generally reduced. Car-
riages, 30 per cent. Watches, 25 per cent.
The administrative provisions constitute the
most voluminous parts of the bill and embracé
the provisions compiled by Mr. Hewitt in the
Forty-ninth Congress and incorporated in the
Morrison Tariff bill. Mr. Hewitt s provisions
abolishing the office of merchant appraiser and
providing new methods of reappraisement are
omitted.
The entire system of damage allowances on
imported goods injured during transportation
is abolished. The period for which imported
merchandise can be kept in bonded ware-
houses is extended from one to throe
years. The duties on boxes, cartons and other
inside coverings of merchandise which pas* in-
to the hands of consumers are revived. Duties
on packing charges are revived. What is known
as the "similitude" clause of the tariff is re-
enacted with such wording as to make cleai
when unenumerated articles can be classihed
as assimilating to enumerated articles. Im-
porters' declarations ere subst tuted for
importers' oaths in all customs matters,
and importers are authorized to make declara- \
tions before notaries instead of at tho custom-.
house. The recommendations made as to pro-
tests, appeals, and suits by Secretary Manning
in a special report to Congress two years ago
are all adopted. The penalties are made more ^
stringent for bribery or feeing inspectors of *
customs, or for any irregularities in in-
spection of baggage. The Government is
authorized to bring suit for the value cf
merchandise fraudulently imported after such
merchand se lias oassed into the hands of tho-
importer. The other provisions are all of a
minor character.
The bill, as submitted, contains no provisions
as to internal revenue, it being understood that,
the Democratic members are prepared to sub-
mit an internal-revenue bill at an early day.
3Ir. Mills Interviewed on the Effects oF
the Tariff Bill.
Washington, March 2.—In an inter-
view with a representative of the United
Press on the Tar ff bill, which was sub-
mitted to the ways and menus committee
yesterday morning, Mr. Mills said: "To
begin with, let us glance at tho free list.
There are two or three hundred articles
on which the duty is to be removed. A
large number of these articles thus placed
on the free list are of minor importance,
and the effect can in no wise affect our
industries, and where a country charges
an import duty upon any of the articles
named, the present duty will remain. The
principal item is lumber, and as to some
of the articles placed on the free list, the
result will be to b"eak up a few
of the numerous trusts now form-
ing in the country. The total amount
of reduction that will ariso from
the extension of the free list will ibe-
something liko $22,000,000. The reduction
on wool and woolen goods wfll amount to
about $12,000,001. On sugar a reduc tion
is made of about $1.000,000. One rest ¡t of
this will be to break up the infaiious
sugar trusts that have formed for the pur-
pose of increasing th$ price of that article.
The reduction on iron and stoel rails, otc., .
are small, and I think the importation of *
such articles will not be materiallj- In-
creased. On imported tobacco, in leaf,,
manufactured and not stemmed, we have
fixed the duty at fifty-five cents per
pound. Sumatra is included.
"We have purposely left the internal
revenue question outside and will brin^
in a separate measure for that. We in-
tend to have a bill on that subject. It
may be appended in the House to the
general bill, but that I am unable to say-
just now. The customs duties will be re-
duced about $55,000,0)0, and in such a way
that the manufacturing industries of the
country will have no cause for needless
alarm.
"The bill reduces the revenue by the
closest estimate which can now be made
by about $55,000,000, cf which $22,503,030-
come from extension^ the free list; $12,-
000,000 from woolens; v $1,003.0 JO froui
sugar; $1,530,000 from earthen and glass-
ware; nearly* $2,030,003 from metals;
nearly $530,000 from chemicals; $"X)),000
from provisions; $250,000 from cottons;
nearly $2,00X000 from hemp, jute, etc.,
and about $10,003,000 from sundries."
The following additional expressions-
were gathered from members of the ways
and means committee:
Mr. Mills—We believe we have com-
piled a bill which nobody dare defeat. It
is a bill which would benefit a:l the peo-
pie. r
Mr. Breckenridge, of Arkansas—It is a
bill which will certainly pass.
Mr. MacMillan—The bill is subject to no^
reasonable objection. It doc3 not injure
a sílice inioátrjr.
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