The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1897-03-18
TILE WOOL SCHEDULE.

Washington. March 15.-The wool
schedule of the new bill is as follows:
Schedule X, Wool and Manufactures
of Wool-All woods, hair Of the camel,
goat. alpaca and like animals are
divided into three classes:
Class 1-Merino, mestlza, metz or
NETS woods or other woods of merino
blood. immediate or remote, down cloth
| ing woods and woods of like character,
including Bagdad wool. China lambs
WOOL CASTLE branca, Adrianople skin or
butchers wool, and such as have been
usually imported into the United States
from Buenos Ayres. New Zealand Aus
tralia. Cape of Good Hope, Russia,
Great Britain. Canada. Egypt, Morocco
and elsewhere and also including all
woods not designated in classes and ..
Class Leicester, COtswold, Lincoln
shire, Down coming woods, Canadian
long woods or other like combing woods
of English brood, hair of the camel, an
CORA goat, alpaca and IKE animals
Class 3-Donskoi, native South Ameri-
can. Cordoya. Valparaiso, native
SMYRNA. Russian camel's hair and woods
of like character as have been imported
| into the United States from Turkey
| Greece. SYRIA and elsewhere, excepting
| improyed woods hereinafter provided for
The duties fixed are: Class /. II cents
Mound: class .. II cents; class 3, on
woods valued at Is cents or less per
hound. including charges, and on COM
mon goat hair. - per cent al valorehi
valued at more than ID cents per pOuhu'
80 per cent ad yalorem.
Standard samples of woods. which are
or may be deposited in the principal Gus
tom houses. are TO he the STANDARDS ior
classification, and the secretary of the
standards from time to time i'll MS.
judgment.
The word wool is described to in
clude wool or hair of the sheep, camel,
goat. alpaca or other animal prepared by
the wooden. worstcd, felt or any other
process of manufacture.
RECIPROCITY SCHEME.
The reciprocity scheme of the new
tariff bill authorizes the president TO
make treaties with foreign governments
on which he will lower the duties on GER
tain goods in return for reciprocity or
equitable concessions to products from
the United States.
1t provides:
with a view to securing reciprocal
trade with foreign governments the pres
idcnt, when he is satisfied that any gov
eminent of country, or colony OF Il gov
eminent exporting to the United States
coffee tea. sugar or other goods reduce
duties on certain products he shall have
the power to reduce the duty on certain
goods, including tea. coffee, hides, angora
goat skins. raw without the wool, unman-
ufacturcd asses skins. raw or unmanu-
featured and skins. except sheepskins
with the wool on. products of such coull-
try or such colony. for such time as he
shall deem Just.
THE SUGAR SCHEDULE.
One of the most important schedules
of the new tariff bill. and also one of the
shortest. is schedule Il, relating to SUI
CARS. molasscs and manufacturers.
Sugar not above 16 degrees and con-
centratcS testing not above % degrees
are dutiablc mt | cent per pound and
.O3 of II cent additional for each degree
above; above No. III and on all refined
sugar. 1.IJ cents per pound: molasses
above III degrees. GO per cent per gallon.
On sugars from bounty paying countries
an additional duty to the amount of
bounty is levied. Sugars, tank bottoms.
etc. the product of any country which |
pays directly or indirectly a bounty on !