The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-30


tieths Iron or steel sheets were also
reduced and the duty on charcoal
+ iron is made six dollars ton instead
| of twelve dollars.
! schedule affect polished sheets; roll
/ ed sheets of iron steel copper, or
nickel; steel ingots cogged ingots.
| blooms and slabs; round iron or steel
| cold drawn, or cold hammered, or
/ polished; anvils; axles; blacksmiths
| hammers and sledges, track tools,
| wedges, crowbars; bolts; cast iron
pipes; cast hollow ware chains; lap
weldon or jointed iron or steel boiler
tubes; cut nails and spikes; horse
| shoe nails; wire nails; spikes, nuts
and washers; cut tackS; steel plates
engraved; rivets, all classes of saws;
screws; wheels for railway purposes;
aluminium, monazite, sand and tho
rite.
Tin Plate Reduced.
Tin plate is reduced from one and
one-half to one and two-tenths cents
per pound duties on table and carv-
ing knives reduced and the minimum
limit of the rates on these knives is
made for forty per cent ad Valorem
instead of fOrty-fiVe. Material re-
auctions are made in the rates on
files, and the duty on cash registers,
jute manufacturing machinery, type
setting machines, machine tools,
printing presses, sewing machines,
tXDeWTlteTS, engines,
reduced to thirty per cent ad ValOr-
EN- from the existing rate of forty-five
per cent. Until January 1, 1919, en-
brOidery and certain lace making ma
chinery, and machines used for the
manufacture of linen cloth and tar
and oil spreading machines used in
the construction of roads, are to be
admitted free.
In ths lumber scheduled the only
increases were those on shingles
7i1-fH q no
thousand, and on briar wood and
laurel wood for the use of pipe MAX
ers from the free list to 15 per cent
ad valorem. The rate on sawed
thousand to $1.25 per thousand.
There was also a diminution On tim
Der from one cent per cubic foot to
one-half cent, and on sawed boards
of white wood and kindred woods
from 81 per thousand to fifty cents
per thousand. The reduction in the
differential rates in favor of dressed
lumber averaged about One-third of
the Dingley rate.
Paving posts, railroad ties and tel
ephone poles are reduced from 20 to
10 per cent ad valorem. CIapboard
from $3.50 per thousand to Sips;
lathes from IS cents to 20 cents per
thousand. while fence posts and kin
ding wood were taken from the du-
table list and placed on the free list.
The only change in the sugar
schedule consisted of a reduction of
five hundredths of Il cent in the diff
ferential on refined sugar.
In agricultural products broom
corn was taken from the free list and
made dutiable at SO per ton. Hops
are increased from II to Is cents per
pound. There are also increases on
lemons, figs, almonds, pineapples and
chicoTy root The reductions in the
agricultural schedule covered bacon
and hams from five to four cents per
pound, lard from two to one and one
half cents, fresh meats from two to
one and one-half cents and starch
from one and one-haIf to one cent
per pound. Tallow, wool, grease
dextrin, peas, sugar beets, cabbage
and salt were also lowered.
The wine and liquor schedule was
increased throughout to fifteen per
cent over the Dingley rates
Cotton Schedule Made Over.
The cotton schedule was recon
structed and readjusted to bring the
duties up to those collected during the
the Dingley law and to the rates then
collected under that law Since that
time the rates have been lowered in
some case from sixty to six per cent
MT Payne explained are equivalent to
an addition, on the whole, of three
percent ad valorem increases over
that collected under the present law
of last year.
Cotton hosiery, valued at not more
than one dollar per dozen is increased
from fifty to seventy cents per dozen
pairs; more than one dollar and less
than one dollar and fifty cents per
dozen pairs, from sixty cents to
eighty-five cents per dozen pairs;
more than one dollar and fifty cents
and not more than two dollars from
seventy cents to ninety cents per doz-
en- pairs.
1iTai11
are the same as under the present
80 Hemp is Increased from $40 to
$3.50 per ton and Mackle hemp from
$40 to $45 per ton.
The cheaper laces remain as in the
present law, but there is an increase
from so to 20 per cent on some OF the
higher priced laces
In this schedule single coarse
yarns are reduced from seven cents to
six cents per pound and gill MEETINGS
from IS to 20 percent ad valorem
There was a general reduction in car
pets and mats.
A reduction from 20 cents to Is cents
is made In hydraulic hose. Oil cloth. |
including lineoleum, was reduced about
one-thrd. There was practically mol
change in the wool schedule from the
rates of the Dingley law, but there was
=. readjustnent between tops and yarns,
and a small decrease on cloths with a
cotton warp.
Pulp and Paper.
Mechanically ground wood pulp was
exempted from duty and placed on the
free list with a provision for a counter
vaiIing duty against Canada. The lower
grade of printing paper was reduced
from Sc to 1915 per ton and the higher
grade from IS to 1913 There is an
Increase on surface coaled paper and
ithogra phic prints including post cards,
and cigar labels.
Bituminous coal goes down from 81
cents to As cents per ton, and there
are reductions on gunpowder, matches
and cartridges.