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Show KNOWN PROVISIONS OF THE TARIFF BILL ! Chicago. March 1C The Record- : Herald today, in a special dispatch from Washington, prints what purports to be the positively known provisions I of the tariff bill. It says in part: "No tax will be imposed on coffee. "Lumber will be reduced from $2 to $1 per thousaud. "There will be free hides and lower schedules on bhoes and leather good3. "Steel will be materially reduced. I "The duties on sugar are undisturb-I undisturb-I ed, but concessions are granted Cuba and the Philippines. The wool schedule sched-ule will be alined at the amount of scoured wool in the fleece. This will permit cheaper grades of wool to get in at less duty. "Woolens will be slightly reduced. "Iron ore will be reduced and pig iron will be cut down. 1 "Flour-spar, a component part of steel manufacture, will be taxed at j $3 a ton." ' |