The Yale expositor., 1897-03-19
Mckinley rates are re-

pound; wire nails from % per cent TO
II, 5-S and L cent a pound, according
TO size; spikes, nuts and washers and
hOrseshoes from % per cent ad valor-
EN- to 1 cent per pound.
Railway wheels are Increased per
pound to 1A cents. Anthony ore is
taken from the free list and taxed at
q of cent per pound.
Tobacco sch edule.
There is no change from the McKin-
ley rates on leaf tobacco suitable for
cigar wrappers, but all other leaf, un-
stemmed, is Increased from 81 cents to
40 cents per pound, and stemmed from
30 to 80 cents. Tobacco not otherwise
provided for is increased from 40 cents
to 40 cents per pound.
With few exceptions the Mckinley
rates have been restored throughout
the agricultural schedule. The tax on
horses and mules is reduced from $50
TO $40 per head, with n pr0visc shat
horses valued ut more than 500 shall
pay duty of % per cent al valorem.
These articles in the agricultural
schedule have been taken from the free
list and made dutiable: Farina, 11A
cents per pound; cabbages, 3 cents
each; sauerkraut, 40 per cent; milk, ,
cents per gallon; cider, cents per gal
lon; nursery stock, 30 per cent; fish for
bait, "A cent per pound; dates, 20 per
cent; bologna sausages, % per cent;
unground chicory root, l cent per
pound; tallOw, l cent per pound; wool
grease, y cent per pound.
Grapes and peaches are changed
from 20 per cent to 2h, cents per
pound. Oranges, lemons and lines are
increased from cents per cubic foot
of capacity to "a of a cent per pound,
and plums and prunes from IL TO
cents per pound.
The rates in the present law are
generally maintained throughout the
entire liquor schedule, but cham
pagnes and mineral waters are to be
used as basis Of reciprocity, with the
omission of part of the duty in return
for special facilities for the importa-
ton of goods from the United States.
In the cotton goods schedule there
are few changes from the present law,
except some slight increases on the
finer grades of goods. The Mckinley
rates are restored on goods and on
hosiery, shirts and drawers not other
wise provided for.
Lumber Rates.
In the lumber schedule all Of the
paragraphs incorporated in the free
list of. the present law are restored to
the dutiable list ut the Mckinley rates,
with the exception of white pine,
which is now classed with spruce and
pays 81 per 1000 feet instead of 81, as
under the Mckinley law.
A clause Is inserted providing for
an additional duty Of % per cent in re-
taliation in case any country imposes
discriminating taxes on similar arti-
cles proposed to be exported TO the
United States.
The tax law on toOthpicks is chang
ed from 81 per cent to ~ cents per
1000.
The sugar scedule is specific
throughout. and gives the retiners no
concealed protection i'm an al yalOrem
duty. 1t imposes on all sugars testing
96 degrees by the polariscope 1925
cents per pound, with an additional
duty of 3-100 of cent per pound for
each degree above 90, and the sub
traction of 3-100 OF n cent for each de-
gree below 9G. On all sugars above
No. 16, Dutch standard in color, Is of
u cent per pound is imposed in add
ton, and on all sugars from countries
paying export bOunties an additional
duty equivalent to the net bounty in
excess of any special tax imposed by
such country,
The tax. on confectionery valued at
10 cepts or less per pound, and on
tinctured, colored or adulterated SUI
CARS is made 10 cents per pound and
10 per cent; OH confectionery not spe-
cially provided for, 30 per cent I'D val
orem, and on glucose1 cent per pound.
~.>l Wool Schedule.
The wool schedule is the one which
will undoubtedly provoke the greatest
fight. The Mckinley rates on raw
woods are 're-enacted with the excep-
ton of woods Imported from China,
Morocco and Egypt, which will be
transferred from class 3 to class /.
. The Free List,
Among The articles on the free list
are arsenic acids, albumen, agates un-
manufactured" antimony ore, abestos
and. asphalt, barks containing -quinine,
beeswax. birds, broom corn, gold, cop
per or silver bullion, ,camphor and cas-
tor. coffee. coins, coal tar, cocoa. cot
ton, fashion plate engravings, hides,
(raw). lava manufactured, licorice
root, citrate OF lime, manuscript, med
ais of any metal, philosophical and
scientific apparatus, instruments and
preparations, statuary, casts of marble,
bronze, alabaster, or plaster of paris,
paintings, drawings and etchings, spe-
cially imported in good faith for the
use of any society or institution incor-
porated or established for religious,
philosophical, educational, scientific or
literary puruospS or for encourage
ment of the fine arts, and not Intended
for sale; raw silks, spices unground,
sulphur, tea and plants, turpentine and
tar, wax, wearing apparel, articles of
personal adornment, toilet articles ari
similar personal effects of persons ar
irving III the United States, as actual
ly accompany and are in use.
For years Lord Roberts has exerted
himself to diminish the grave dangers