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kins, Peters, Phelps, Plumb, Post, Pugsley, Reed, 

 Rockwell, Romeis, Rowell, Russell of Connecticut, 

 Ryan, Sawyer, Scull, Seymour, Sherman, Sowden, 

 Steele, Stephenson, Stewart of Vermont, Struble, 

 Symes, E. B. Taylor of Ohio, J. D. Taylor of Ohio, 

 Tnomas of Kentucky, Thomas of Illinois, Thomas of 

 Wisconsin, Thompson of Ohio, Turner of Kansas, 

 Vandever, Wade, Warner, Weber, West, White of 

 Indiana, White of New York, Whiting of Massa- 

 chusetts, Wickham, Wilber, Williams, Yardley, 

 Yost 149. 



NOT VOTING Belmont, Browne of Indiana, Daven- 

 port. Foran, Glover, Granger, Hiestand, Hogg, 

 Moffatt, Perry, Randall, Spooner, Whiting of Michi- 

 gan, Woodburn 14. 



The only Republicans who voted for the 

 bill were B rower of North Carolina, Fitch 

 of New York, and Nelson of Minnesota. The 

 only Democrats who voted against it were 

 Bliss, Greenman, and Merriman of New York, 

 and Sowden of Pennsylvania. Randall of 

 Pennsylvania was paired against the bill with 

 a Democrat who favored it. 



The text of the Mills Bill, which formed the 

 main issue in the Presidential canvass, is given 

 as a matter of record : 



Be it enacted, etc., That on and after the 1st day of 

 October, 1888, the following articles mentioned in this 

 section, when imported, shall be exempt from duty : 



Timber, hewed and sawed, and timber used for 

 spars and in building wharves. 



Timber squared or sided. 



Wood unmanufactured, 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, hewed, or sawed only. 



Staves of wood. 



Pickets and palings. 



Laths. 



Shingles. 



Clapboards, pine or spruce. 



Logs. 



Provided, That if any export duty is laid upon the 

 above-mentioned articles, or either of them, by any 

 country 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 imported from any country which does 

 not charge an import duty upon salt exported from 

 the United States. 



Flax straw. 



Flax, not hackled or dressed. 



Tow of flaXj or hemp. 



Hemp, mamla, and other like substitutes for hemp. 



Jute-outts. 



Jute. 



Sunn, sisal-grass, and other vegetable fibers. 



Burlaps, not exceeding 60 inches in width, of flax, 

 jute, or hemp, or of wnich flax, jute, or hemp, or 

 either of them, shall be the component material of 

 chief value. 



Bags of jute for grain. 



Machinery designed for the conversion of jute or 

 jute- butts into cotton-bagging, to wit, cards, roving- 

 frames, winding-frames, and softeners. 



Iron or steel Sheets, or plates, or taggers iron, coat- 

 ed with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these 

 metals is a component part, by the dipping or any 

 other process, and commercially known as tin-plates, 

 terne-plates, and taggers tin. 



Beeswax. 



Glycerine, crude, brown, or yellow, of the specific 



gravity of 1'25 or less at a temperature of 60 Fahr., 

 not purified by refining or distilling. 



Phosphorus. 



Soap-stocks, fit only for use as such. 



Soap, hard and soft, all which are not otherwise 

 specially enumerated or provided for. 



Sheep-dip. 



Extract of hemlock, and other bark used for tan- 

 ning. 



Indigo, extracts of, and carmincd. 



Iodine, resublimed. 



Oil, croton. 



Hemp-seed and rape-seed oil. 



Petroleum. 



Alumina alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sul- 

 phate of alumina, and aluminous cake, and alum in 

 crystals or ground. 



All imitations of natural mineral waters, and all 

 artificial mineral waters. 



Baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured. 



Boracic acid, borate of lime, and borax. 



Copper, sulphate of, or blue vitriol. 



Iron, sulphate of, or copperas. 



Potash, crude, carbonate of, or fused, and caustic 

 potash. 



Chlorate of potash and nitrate of potash, or salt- 

 peter crude. 



Sulphate of potash. 



Sulphate of soda, known as salt-cake, crude or re- 

 fined, or niter-cake, crude or refined, and Glauber's- 

 salt. 



Nitrate of soda. 



Sulphur, refined, in rolls. 



Wood-tar. 



Coal-tar, crude. 



Aniline oil and its homologues. 



Coal-tar, products of, such as naphtha, benzine, 

 benzole, dead oil, and pitch. 



All preparations of coal-tar not colors or dyes, and 

 not acids of colors and dyes. 



Log-wood and other dyewoods, extracts and decoc- 

 tions of. 



Alizarine, natural or artificial. 



Spirits of turpentine. 



Ocher and ochery earths, umber and umber earths. 



Olive-oil, salad-oil, cottonseed-oil, whale-oil, seal- 

 oil and neatfs-foot oil. 



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, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots, 

 and stems, vegetables, seeds, and seeds of morbid 

 growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and 

 dried insects, any of the foregoing which are not edible 

 and not specially enumerated or provided for. 



All non-dutiable crude minerals, but which have 

 been advanced in value or condition by refining or 

 grinding, or by other process of manufacture, not 

 specially enumerated or provided for. 



All earths or clays unwrought or unmanufactured. 



Glass plates or disks unwrought, for use in the 

 manufacture of optical instruments, spectacles, and 

 eyeglasses. 



Opium, crude and not adulterated, containing 9 per 

 cent, and over of morphia : for medicinal purposes. 



Iron and steel cotton ties for hoops, for baling or 

 other purposes, not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge. 



Needles, sewing, darning, knitting, and alf others 

 not specially enumerated or provided for in this act. 



Copper, imported in the form of ores, regulus of, 

 and black or coarse copper and copper cement, old 

 copper fit only for remanufacture. 



Antimony, as regulus or metal. 



Quicksilver. 



Chromate of iron or chromic ore. 



Mineral substances in a crude state and metals un- 

 wrought not specially enumerated or provided for. 



Brick, other than fire-brick. 



German looking-glass plates, made of blown glass 

 and silvered. 



