The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1861-07-25
The Proposed New Tariff.

.f The Proposed New Tariff. frr
We can find room for only synopsis
of the new tariff proposed by Mr.. Sec
retary Chase; but this will enable the
reader to comprehend the principle
charges likely to be made.
Raw sugar is to be taxed two and a
half cents per pound, instead of three
fourths of~a cent, as at present, when
advanced beyond that state, three
cents, and when refined, four cents,
candies are to be charged six cents.
On mo.asses the duty is six cents, and
on sour molasses four cents per gallon
it is now &C. in each case. Confection-
ary remains at thirty per cent. ad
casorena.
Brandy advances from one dollar to
one dollar and fifty cents per gallon,
first proof; on other distilled liquors
the duties are to be sixty and seventy
five cents per gallon, instead of forty
and fifty. There is long schedule of
duties on foreign wines, which are
taxed from ten cents to one dollar gal-
lon, according to value. On bottled
liquors there is separate duty of thirty
per cent. ad valorem. s.-
Iron-In bar or hammered of the
first description in the present tariff is
to be fourteen dollars per ton, instead
of fifteen. The others remain as they
were, or undergo slight reduction.
Pig iron is to be reduced from six to
five dollars per ton. Scrap rises from
six to eight dollars. Bars, hoop and
sheet iron remains without any material
change. Steel is to be one cent, when
the value of the import does not exceed
four cents per pound from fonr to
seven cents, one and half from seven
to eleven cents, two cents per pound.
Bituminnous coal remains at its pres
ent price.
Lead advances from one dollar to-
one dollar and fifty cents per hundred
pounds; in sheet, pipes or shot, lead
is to be two dollars and twenty-five
cents per hundred pounds, instead of
one dollar and fifty cents as at present;
pewter advances fifty cents per huns
dred.
Copper undergoes no change of cons
sequence.
Spelter, manufactured in blocks or
pigs, is to be charged one dollar per
hundred pounds; on zinc one dollar
and fifty cents. The same in sheets
are to pay one dollar and fifty cents and
two dollars respectively.
White Lead ground in oil is raised
one cent and a half per pound to 1925
per hundred. The other items speci-
fed in the ninth section remain as they
are or advance slightly. ,s
Black Tea will pay ten cents, and
green teas fifteen cents per pound;
coffee and cocoa, FIVE cents each; cocoa
4 leaves, three cents; chocolate six
cents. Salt rises from four to fifteen
cents per bushe. Spices and tropical
: fruits will be assessed with somewhat
heavier duties.
! Wool, wooden clothes carpetings, de-
laines, worsteds, blankets, oil-clothes,
remain substantially as they are.
Cotton manufacturers also continue
to pay the same duties.
Hemp manufacturers are to pay forty
dollars per ton, instead of thirty-five,
i The other items specified under the
| fifteenth section remain nearly as at
present.
, Silk win be admitted under its pres
ent rates. M
On glass there will be a slight re-.
, ductiop. the rates extending from
: eighty cents to two dollars per hundred
square feet on plain glass. On other
descriptions there is no alteration of
consequence.
A duty of FIVE per cent is henceforth
r to be levied on all acids used for chem
/ ical manufacturing purposes; philo-
: sophical apparatus, books, maps, station.
{ cry, paintings, cabinets of coins, med
t ais, &C., unless when imported by in.
0 corporated societies; also animals and
e animal substances used in the manu-.
facture of manures rags plaster of
r Paris, and a variety of other substances
y now in the free list. The ten per cent.
! list will be very considerably enlarged
!. also from the free list.
: The fifteen per cent. list comprises
n all books, periodicals, pamphlets, &C.,
+ as at present. The free list consists
o principally of articles imported to the
S United States, and books, charts, DO,
If imported not as articles of merchan'
disc, but for associations or individuals
q as objects of taste, fas
D. The number of sections in the new
Q act is thirty; it will be about the same
i i-Ilength - the present tariff reg