Mexico weekly ledger., 1897-03-25
vets from 25 cents to 20 cents

Lowell. MASS
rivets from 25 cents to 20 cents a
pound.
Umbrella and parasnl ribs, etc.,
are classified by the number Of ribs
and specific duties are imposed
equivalent to the present ad valorem
of 25 per cent.
Railroad wheels are increased per
pound to Ii cents.
The Mckinley rates are reimposed
on German silver, brass and copper
except that copper in rolled plates
will be 81 cents per pound instead
of 25 per cent, and sheathing of
which copper is the principal
component, 2 cents per pound in
stead of 35 per cent.
Mckinley rates are restored on
gold leaf, silver leaf, zinc, lead and
lead ore, pins and type metal.
Chronometers are increased from
10 per cent to 40 per cent.
In the lumber schedule all of the
paragraphs incorporated in the free
lists of the present law are restored
to the dutiable list at the Mckinley
rates, with the exception of white
pine, which is now classed with
spruce, and pays 81 per thousand
feet instead of 81 as under the Nc
Kinley law.
A clause is inserted providing for
an additional duty of 25 per cent
ad valorem on lumber to be imposed
in retaliation in case any country
imposes discriminating taxes on sim
liar articles proposed to be exported
to the United States. The tax on
toothpicks is changed from 35 per
cent to II cents per thousand. The
sugar schedule is specific throughout
and gives the refners no concealed
protection in an ad valorem duty.
There is no change from the Nc
Kinley rates on leaf tobacco suitable
for cigar wrappers, but all other
leaf, unstemmed, is increased from
forty to seventy cents per pound.
With few exceptions the McKin.
ley rates have been restored through.
out the agricultural schedule. The
tax on horses and mules is reduced
from thirty to twenty per cent pei
head, with a proviso that horses
valued at more than 800 shall pay
a duty of twenty-five per cent I'D
valorem.
These articles in the agricultural
schedule have been taken from the
free list and made dutiable: Farina,
/ cent per pound; cabbages cents
each; sauerkraut, As per cent milk
cents per gallon; nursery stock
80 per cent; fish for bait, + cent pei
pound; dates, 90 per cent; bologns
sausages, 25 per cent; unground
chicory root, 1 cent per pound; tai
low, 1 cent per pound; wool grease
cent per pound.
Grapes and peaches are changed
from 20 cents to 81 cents per pound
Oranges, lemons and lines are
increased from s cents per cubic
foot of capacity to cent per pound
and plums and prunes from Ii cent
to 2 cents per pound.
The liquor schedule remains prac
tically unchanged.
The Mckinley rates are restored
on ready-made clothing, on cotton
chenille goods and on hosiery, shirts
and drawers not otherwise provided
for.
The present rates remain on cords
braids, etc., and on all manufactures
of cotton, not especially provided for
In the flax, hemp and jute sched
ule all the articles placed on the free
list in the present law are restored
to the dutiable list at Mckinley rates
except tow of hemp, which is in
creased to the Mckinley rate of
cent a pound to 1 cent pound and
10 per cent.
Cables, cordage and twine, no
otherwise provided for, are taxed al
1 cent per pound, aud binding twins
when imported from countries plac
ing duty on the same article from
the United States, $40 of cent pei
pound.
There is a new classification o
fax. gill netting, etc.
Threads, twines and cords o.
hemp, fax or ramie, not finer thar
So, cents per pound; finer 5-s of /
cent for each additional line.
Collars and cuffs composed en-
tirely of cotton, As cents dozen ant
Is per cent; composed of whole or il
part Of linens, 80 cents per dozen ana
30 per cent; shirts and underwear
ing apparel not specially provides
for, composed in whole or part o
linen, so per cent.
The committee still has under con
sideration the linen embroidery par
agraph.
| 1t will probably be divided AM
embroideries, embroidered inser
tions and fiouncings will be taxe'
at SO cents per pound and Is per cent
1t is the purpose of the COMMITTEE
TO devise a provision that viii enabi'
reciprocity treaties to be made no