The times., 1893-12-15
SCHEDULE C-METALs.

SCHEDULE C-METALS.
The metal schedules of the bill are almost
wholly by ad valorem duties. while the present
law levies specific duties, The following are
the changes:
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel eisen,
ferro manganese, ferro silicon, wrought and
cast scrap iron and cast steel, 2s1e per cent ad
valorem (present law, 3-l0 cent per pound); all
iron in slabs blooms, loops or other forms
more advanced than pig iron, and less finished
than iron in bars. 20 per cent ad valorem (pres-
ent law, $40 cent per pound; bar iron, rolled or
hammered iron, in coils rods. and bars or
shapes of rolled iron, 30 per cent ad valorem
tpresent law, $40 cent per pound); beams, grid
ers, joists, angles, channels, car truck channels,
columns and posts, or parts or sections OF
columns and posts. deck and bulb beams and
building forms, together with all other struc-
tural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or
punched, or filed for use, 35 per cent ad valorem
(present law 9l0 cent per pound); boiler or other
plate iron or steel, except saw plates herein
after provided. for, not thinner than No. 10
wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp
iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, 30per
cent ad valorem (present law, $40 cent per
pound); forgings OF iron or steel, or forged iron
or steel combined, of whatever shape, or in
whatever stage of manufacture not especially
provided for in this act, 30 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 2 $40 cents per pound); hoop, band
or scroll iron or steel, except as otherwise pro-
vided for in this act, 30 per cent ad valorem
(present law, cent per pound); railway bars,
made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in
part of STEEL common or black, including all
iron ct steel commercially known as common
or black tagger's iron or steel, and skelp iron
or steel, 3Sper cent ad valorem (present law,
cent per pound).
Tin Plates.
All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all
hoop, band or scroll iron, excepting what are
known commercially as tin plates, terne plates
and tagger's tin and hereinafter provided for,
when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter
or other metals, or any alloy of those metals
35 per cent ad valorem (present law, three
fourths of l cent per pound). Sheet iron or
sheet steel. polished, planished or glanced, by
whatever name designated, 35 per cent ad va
loren (present law, 2I1 cents per pound). Sheets
or plates of iron or steel, or tagger's iron or
steel, coated with tin, or lead or with mixture
of these metals. or either of them, as a compo-
nent part, by the dipping or any other process
and commercially known as tin plates, terne
plates and tagger's tin, 40 per cent ad valorem
(present law, 2-lG cents per pound). In the
Mckinley law these sections vary according to
the class of goods, but the figures given are the
important tin plate duties.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs
by whatever process made; die blocks or
blanks, billets and bars and tapered or beveled
bars, steamer crank and other shafts, shafting,
wrist or crank pins, connecting rods and pis-
ton rods, pressed, sheared or stamped shapes,
saw plates, wholly or partially manufactured;
hammer molds or swaged steel, gun barrel
molds not in bars, alloys used as substitutes
for steel tools, all descriptions and shapes of
dry sand, loan or iron nodded steel castings,
sheets and plates not specially provided for in
this act and steel in all forms and shapes
not especially provided for In this act, 20
per cent ad valorem (present law, 40 cent
to 7cents per pound, according to value). Wire
rods, rivet, screw. fence and other iron or steel
wire rods and nail rods, whether round, fiat.
oval, square or In any other shape, in coils or
otherwise, 30 per cent ad valorem (present
law, 6-l0 cent per pound). Iron or steel wire
and wire or strip steel, commonly known as
crinoline wire; corset wire and hat wire, fat
steel wire or sheet steel, In strips, uncovered
covered with cotton. silk or other material; iron
or steel wire cloths and iron or steel wire net
tings made in meshes of any form, iron or steel
wire coated with zinc or tin or any other metal,
wire rope and wire strand, 30 per cent ad va
lorem (present law, Ia to scents per pound, ac-
cording to valued
Iron or Steel Manufactures.
Anchors, or parts thereof. of iron or steel,
mill irons and mill cranks Of wrought iron and
wrought iron for ships and forgings of iron or
steel, or of combined iron and steel, for vessels
steam engines and locomotives, or parts there
of, 25 per cent ad valorem (present law, g. 10
cents per pound). Axles, or parts thereof, axle
bars, axle blanks, or forgings for axles, wheth-
or of iron or steel, without reference to the
stage or state of manufacture, 25 per cent
ad valorem (present law,2 cents per pound).
Anvils of iron or steel, or of iron and
steel combined, by whatever process made,
or in whatever stage of manufacture, 25
per cent al valorem (present law, 215
cents per pound. Backsmiths' hammers and
sledges, track tools, wedges and crowbars,
whether Of iron or steel, rs per cent ad valorem,
(present law, "a cents per pound). Boiler or
other tubes, pipes, fues or stays of wrought
iron or steel, 25 per cent ad valorem (present
law, 28 cents per pound). Bolts with or with
out threads or nuts, or bolt blanks and finished
hinges or hinge blanks, whether of iron or
steel, 25 per cent ad valorem tpresent law, 2la
cents per pound).
Card clothing, 30 per cent ad valorem (pres-
ent law, 25 and 80 cents per square FOOT. Cast
iron pipe of every description, 25 per cent ad
valorem (present law, 9-10 cent per pound).
Cast iron vessels, plates, stove plates and irons,
sad irons, taiors' irons. hatters irons and cast
ings of iron not specially provided for In this
act, 25 per cent ad valorem (present law, 2-10
cents per pound) Castings Of malleable iron
not specially provided for In this act. 25 per
cent ad valorem present law, Ia cents per
pound) Cast hollow ware, coated, glazed or
timed, 30 per cent ad valorem (present law, o
cents per pound). Chains of all kinds made Of
iron or steel, 30 per cent ad valorem (present
law. I Clio tn 9f cents per pound).
Cutlery.
Penknives or pocketknives Of all kinds, or
parts thereof. and era<ers. or parts thereof,