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Show THE SEW TARIFF BILL. The new tariff bill favorably reported to the house, alTects Utah products in the articles of lead, hides and wool, and increases the tax more or less on them. Sulphur or brimBtone is put on. the free list, but retined in rolls is taxed $8 per ton. Mica is changed from the free lint on to the dutiable, at 35 per C3nt ad valorem, eggs 5 cents a dozen, glycerine crude 1 cent a pound, retined cents; soda bi-carbonate 1 cent a pound; effervescing effer-vescing mineral waters, natural and imitation, imi-tation, 25 cents a dozen bottles. Tho tax on sugar, molasses and tobacco is greatly reduced. Fish, caught by American Amer-ican vessels and in our own waters, come in free. On the whole, so far as Utah is concerned, her producers and people generally have no cause to complain of the bill as it stands. Before it passes the ordeal of congress, many modifications modifica-tions and alterations will be made. See-tional See-tional and conflicting interests will tiercely clash; dividing parties and compromise com-promise will be the order of the day. As the house bill now reads, it is calculated calcu-lated that the national revenue will be reduced some sixty million dollars per annum, more or lossi It is to be hoped that a good silver bill will be enacted into law before the interminable in-terminable debate on tariff matters commences. com-mences. Let us have money to pay taxes before they are added or diminished. |