Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-05

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 it's products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia, from 20
| per cent. ad yalorem 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 SEIZED
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
fannie acid, or tannin, from so to
| So 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 frlLl 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 21a cents per
pound.
Cottonseed Oil on Free List.
Cottonseed oil and cotton oil from
the dutiable to the free list,
F'laxseed, linseed and poppy seed
oil from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
Peppermint oil from so to IS cents
per gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
81
earths, if ground in oil or water, from
~ to one cent per pound,
Varnishes from 35 per cent to 20
per cent ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from $1.32 per gallon and So per cent
ad valorem to 35 cents per gallon and
35 Fer cent ad yalorem; white lead,
acetate of lead, and a number of other
lead products, from one-fourth to one
eighth of a cent pound.
Bichromate and chrOmate of potash
from three to 2A cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 2h to two
cents per pound.
Crystal carbonate of soda from
three-tenths to one-fOurth of one cent
per pound; chlorate of SOFA from two
to Ia 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
inter cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton.
Strychlia, or strychnine, from 80 to
Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimated, or
flowers of, from SIS 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 45 per cent. to
35 per cent ad valorem.
Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, from
SO to 30 cents per ton; if ground or
calcined, from 1925 to $125.
Unpublished cylinder, crown and
common window glass, smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one-eighth
of cent per pound
Onyx in block, from $3.50 per cubic
foot to IS cents per cubic foot.
Duty Lowered on Marble.
Marble, sawed or dressed, over two
inches in thickness, from $1.10 to 81
per cubic foot, with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone.
There is a general reduction in mica
to 80 per cent ad valorem. There
was before a mixed specific and ad
,alorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use, falls
in the basket clause at As per cent ad
valorem.
There also is an increase on razors,
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increased
from 25 to so per cent. ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosilicon, tungsten
and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels. are made duti-
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