The Colorado statesman., 1909-08-14


made for countervailing duty in
case it becomes necessary to protect
this country against Canadas inhibi-
tions upon the expectation of woods
to the United States.
Hides of cattle come in free and
there is corresponding reduction on
leather and leather goods. The free
hide provision is based on the condi-
ton that on and after October /,
1903, sole leather from the hides that
are to be admitted free will pay
duty of five per cent; grain, buff and
split leather 71a per cent; boots and
shoes. the upper leather of which is
made from such hides, 10 per cent,
and harness and saddlery, 20 per
cent. This schedule of rates will re-
suit in reduction of Is per cent. on
boots and shoes, 20 per cent. on har-
ness and saddlery, Is per cent. on sole
leather and 121s per cent. on leather
for uppers, if made of the hides that
are put on the free list by the pro-
vision.
Bituminous coal is reduced from 81
cents per ton to As cents, and there
is also a reduction on gunpowder.
matches and cartridges. Agricultural
implements go off from 20 per cent.
ad valorem to Is per cent. and the
older works of art are placed upon
the free list. Petroleum, which re-
ceived much attention in both
houses, slips through without any
duty, countervailing or otherwise, and
most of its products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia, from 25
per cent. ad valorem to five cents per
pound.
Manufactures of collodion, increased
five per cent.
Coca leaves increased five cents per
pound.
Fancy soaps increased from Is cents
per pound to so per centum ad va
loren.
The list of decreases in this sched-
ule was much longer, the principal
items being as follows:
Boracic acid from five to two cents
per pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from
three to two cents per pound.
Salicylic acid from ten to seven
cents per pound
35 cents per pound.
Sulphate of ammonia from three
tenths cent per pound to free list.
Borax from five to two cents per
pound.
Borate of lime and other borate ma
terial from four to two cents per
pound
Chloroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound
Copperas from one-fourth cent to fif-
teen hundredths of one cent per
pound.
Iodoform from 81 to rs cents per
pound.
Licorice from AZ to 2k cents per
pound.
cottonseed Oil on Free List.
Cottonseed oil and cotton oil from
the dutiable to the free list.
Flaxseed, linseed and poppy seed
oil from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
| Peppermint oil from so to rs cents
per gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths, and umber and umber
earths, If ground in oil or water, from
| l u to one cent per pound.
Varnishes from 35 per cent to 25
per cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from $1.32 per gallon and 35 per cent.
ad valorem to 35 cents per gallon and
|
acetate of lead, and number of other
lead products, from one-fourth to one
eighth of cent pound.
| Bichromate and chromate of potash
from three to "a cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 21a to two
cents per pound.
Crystal carbonate of soda from
three-tenths to one-fourth of one cent
per pound; chlorate of soda from two
to IL cents per pound.
Hydrate of, or caustic soda, from
three-fourths to one-half of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from 21a
to two cents per pound.
Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or
miter cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton.
Strychnia, or strychnine. from 80 to
Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur refined or sublimated, or
flowers of, from sS to Sc per ton.
In earthenware and glassware
there Is but one increase. This is slight
and is made on the smaller sizes of
plate glass. The decreases in this
schedule include:
Fire brick. glazed, enameled, and so
forth, from As per cent. to 35 per cent.
ad valorem; brick, other than fire
brick, if glazed, from As per cent. to
So per cent. ad valorem.
Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, from
so to 80 cents per ton; If ground or
calcined, from $2.25 to SLIPS.