The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-05-05

AASI.
Flax, Hemp, Etc.
Flax not hacked or dressed is reduced
from 1 to q cent per pound, and hacked
or dressed line" flax from s cents to 22
cents per pound. Tow of flax is changed
SO as to provide for a straight duty of 1
cent per pound. Hemp and tow of hemp
are reduced from 50 TO $50 per ton, and
hacked hemp from $50 to $40 per ton.
Considerable additions were made TO the
paragraph relating TO cables and cordage.
These include tampico fiber, manila and
sisSal grass. all of which are made dutiable
at cent per pound. There is an increase in
the duty on threads made from yarn finer
than nVe lea or number. OF from rs 10 q
cent per pound additional Tor each lea or
number. The paragraph in regard to yarns
made OF flax TOW IS changed from ad va
loren to specific rates ana a duty of 6
cents per pound provided for single yarns
IN gray, MAGE OF max, hemp or ranle, not
finer than eight lea or number; finer than
eight lea or number and not finer than
eighty lea, 70 per cent. ad Valorem; finer
than eighty lea or number, 10 per cent. ad
VaIorem.
There is also a substitute for Paragraph
39 in regard to flax gill netting, which
provides that this netting and also nets,
webs and seines shall pay the same duty
per pound as is imposed on the thread,
Irvine or cord OF which they are made, and
an additional duty Of ~ per cent. al va
loren.
-Floormattings are reduced when valued
at not exceeding 10 cents per yard, from 3
TO 4 cents per square yard; valued at eX-
ceeding 10 cents, TO s cents per square yard
with the % per cent. al VdlofeTn stricken
out. There Is a provision dQue0 Tor an az
ditionaI duty of % per cent, ad valorem
where they are manufactured with a warp
composed of cotton flax, or other vegetable
Carpets made of vegetable fiber. except
cotton. where the value does not exceed 10
cents per square yard. are mace dutlaDle at
5 cents per square yard, at 10 cents per
yard, with an addition. OF 80 per cent al
Valorem. This is a different classification
from the House bill on these articles.
Oil cloth for floors is reduced from ~ to 3
Shirt PcolSrs and On ifs. composed in whole
or in part of linen, are reduced from % TO
40 cents per dozen and the House ad va
loren rate retained.
The provision for a 50 per cent. ad valo-
rem rate on shirts and other articles OF
wearing apparel, composed Oh Aneh' -
stricken out.
The paragraph in regard to laces,, lace
window curtains, etc, is also Cancelled ana
a new paragraph substituted providing the
following rates: Laces. lace, window cur
tains. tides, napkins and other lace artI-
Giles. wearing apparels, news ol iettinS'
wells, ruchings, embroideries ana all TRIM
mings, wearing apparel ana other ar
ticles or fabrics embroidered, hem-stltcned
or tucked founcings, all the to1egoihS
composed of flax, cotton or otnef VeSetape
fiber. whether composed in part of India
rubber or otherwise, 60 per cent al Valorem'
Paragraph 1913, in regard to emorolderles,
etc. is stricken out. There IS a sngnI
change in the classification of the handKer-
chief schedule. 30
in regard to woven fabrics composed, OF
flax. hemp or ramine, which provides that
where these articles weigh four ounces or
more per SQudI6 ydId cih inc 49, 49,
than sixty threads to the square inch there
shall be a duty of Il cent per pound, where
they contain not more that 10 threads 10
the inch 3 cents per pound, where tney coli-
tain not more than $50 threads TO the men
10 cents per square yard ana IN adaltl9n an
the foregoing 30 per cent. ad ValQrJtn. l nehe
is a provision added that none OF these artl-
cles covered in this paragraph shail pay a
less rate of duty. than % per cehtrad Val-
orem, except fabrics weighing less than
four ounces per square yard, which are to
pay only 30 per cent. ad Valorem. All man
ufactures under this schedule not specially
provided are reduced from so to 45 per cent.
ad yalorem.
Cotton Manufactures.
On cotton thread and carded yarns, warps
and other forms, except the spool thread.
the House rate was $40 of a cent per num-
her per pound on number exceeding TWEEN
ty. The Senate bill imposes $40 of a cent
per number per pound in addition to the
rate of 6 cents a pound on No. 20, on num-
bers exceeding twenty and up to eighty.
TIL Senate bill makes the rate on No. so
and above so per cent. ad valorem. The
House duty of s cents per square yard and
80 per cent. on cloth of cotton or other
vegetable fiber with an admiXture of silk
is replaced by a more specific paragraph
putting the same rate on cloth composed
of cotton or other vegetable fiber, silk,
whether known as silk striped sleeve lin
ings, silk stripes or otherwise" and is pro-
vided that no such cloth shall pay less
than 50 per cent. ad valorem. Cotton cloth
filled or coated is made ) cents per square
yard and 20 per cent.
The duties on pushes, velvets. yelveteens,
corduroys, etc. not bleached, ,coiored' etc,
are changed from 10 cents and 20 per cent.
to 8 cents and % per cent. per square yard:
bleached, dyed, ETC., from Ii cents and 20
per cent. TO II cents and 20 per cent. 1t is
provided by the Senate bill that none of the
fabrics of the plush and corduroy class
shall pay a less rate than 4712 per cent. ad
valorem. The Senate classification of stock
ings, hose and r. GOse follows: valued
&C Cents hGt valued HiSedg at 4. than ID 81 and not more
than $L50, 60 cents, valued more than $l.5O
and not more than 50, 10 cents; valued more
than 81 and not more than $50, 81; and in
addition on the foregoing 10 per cent. ad
valorem; valued at more than 50, 80 per
The rates on underwear, including that
knit by hand, finished or unfinished, which
were not touched in the same House bill
paragraph, are changed as follows: Val
G gsd at an mpF IS f per cent? s1;5o gge en deze g c l0ase and ID
Is per cent: $50 to SO, House, Is cents and
IS per cent; Senate, $110 and 10 per cent;
SO to s.. House, 81 and 40 per cent; Senate,
$3.50 and % per cent: So to 81, House, SIPS
and 40 per cent. Senate, $1.25 and IS per
a ats rates Il wa are si-' Valued aHe y at Isl s. f to SIS. SIS 4 a n
35 per cent; above SIS, so per cent.
The rate of manufactures of cotton not
specially provided for is raised from 40 to
40 per cent. ad valorem.
Pulp Paper and Books.
mechanically STOullu WOOu pup Is
changed from one-twelfth of a cent per
pound to ~ cents per 100 pounds, and a
proviso is added that if any country or
dependency shall impose an export duty on
pulp wood the amount of such export duty
shall be added as an additional duty when
imported from such country or depen-
deney.',
The provision in regard to photographic
prints is entirely new and is quite compli-
Gated. 1t provides a duty of % cents per
pound on such prints from stone, zinc or
other material on paper not exceeding
$1,000 of an inch in thickness, but the pro-
vision does not apply to cigar labels and
bands, music and illustrations, when form
ing part of a periodicals; writing, letter,
note, handmade drawings, ledger, bond,
record, tablet and typewriter paper, weigh
ing not less than ten pounds and not more
than fifteen TO the ream, 2 cents per pound
and 10 per cent. ad Valorem. 1t is especial
~ provided that if the paper is ruled. bor-
dered, embossed, printed or decorated it
shall pay 10 per cent. ad Valorem in addi-
tiOn to the above rates.
Books of all kinds, photographs, etchings,
maps music not especially provided for, are
also made dutiable at % per cent. ad va
loren. Paper envelopes, plain, 25 per cent.
ad Valorem; if bordered, etc. so per cent.
ad valorem. The House provision relating
TO all these subjects is stricken out.
There is also a substitute paragraph in