The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-31

pairing this table the experts had usec
all of the available information from
the census Office and other sources
But all of these he said, ARE not Suf-
fcient to present the total consump-
ton of either class of articles. If the
total consumption were available the
contrast between the amount of goods
on which duties were lowered and
those increased would be still more
striking"
Taking up the schedules in their
order he gave, first, the increases and
then the decreases. The figures in all
Dingley law. In schedule A, relating
to chemicals, he gave the increases as
follows:
LIQUID anhydrous ammonia from IS per cent
ad valorem to ) cents per pound.
Manufactures of collodeon. increased per
cent.
Cocoa leaves. increased cents per pound.
Fancy soaps, Increased from Is cents per
pound TO 80 per cent ad valorem.
In the list of decreases the principal
items follow:
Boracie acid. from to cents per pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid, from to
cents per pound.
Salicylic acid, from 10 to cents per pound.
Tannic acid, or tannin, from 80 to 30 cents
per pound
cent per pound TO free list.
Borax, from TO cents per pound.
Borate of lime and other borate materiaA from
to cents per pound
COpperas, from one-fourth of a cent TO fifteen
hundreds of ] cent per pound.
eorSe rG@ to to 8 een per P pepp pound
Cottonseed oil and croton oil, from the duti-
able to the free list.
Flaxseed linseed and poppyseed oil, from 90
to 10 cents per gallon.
Peppermint oil, from 80 to % cents per
gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths sienna and sienna
earths. and lumber and lumber earths If ground
in oil or water, from y to l cent per pound.
Yarn fGha
yalorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes. from 81 80
per gallon and 30 per cent ad vaorem to 80
cents per gallon and 81 per cent ad valorem.
White lead. acetate of lead and number of
other lead products. from onefourth to one
eighth of a cent pound.
Biehromate and chromate of potash, from TO
pa cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash, from 2I5 to cents per
pound
Crystal carbonate of soda. from three tenths
to one-fourth OF cent per pound: chIorate
OF soda. from TO u cents per pound
Hydrate of or caustic soda. from three -fourths
to one-half of one cent per pound nitrate of
soda. from 2i2 TO cents per pound
Sulphate of soda or salt cake or inter cake,
from 81 % 10 81 per ton.
Strychnia or strychnine, from so to Is cents
per ounce.
sulphur. refined or sublimated or flowers of;
from IS to SO per ton.
MANY DECREASES MADE
In earthen ware and glassware there
is only one increa Sc. according to
Payne's figures. But this is slight and
is made of the smaller sizes of plate
glass. The decreases include:
Friedrich, glazed. enameled, etc, from As
per cent to % per cent ad yalorem brick other
than friedrich. If glazed, from As per cent to 35
Plaster. rock gypsum crude from 30 10 30
cents per tom if ground or calcined. from 81. 25
Unpublished, cylinder crown and common win
dow glass smaller glass and cheaper values
reduced one-efghth of cent per pound.
IN Ell IL. ~
cents per cubic foot
Marble sawed or dressed. over two inches IN
thickness. from lilo to 81 per cubic foot.
There is a general reduction in mica
to 80 per cent ad valorem.
Structural steel. fitted for use. falls
IN the basket clause at As per cent ad
valorem.
There is also an increase on razors
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithographic plates are increased
from rs to so per cent ad vaIorem.
Chrome metal. ferro silicon, tung-
stem and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels are made dutia-
bic at not more than Is per cent ad
Valorem. Tungsten ore is made duti-
able at 10 per cent
DUTY ON WATCHES READJUsTED
The duty on watches was readjust-
ed, remaining at about the same as
the Dingley law.
duty of l cent per pound was put
upon the zinc in the ore where it con-
tains more than 20 per cent of zinc
On zinc with less than 20 per cent
there is lower rate of duty. Zinc now
has duty of 20 per cent.
There was an added duty of half a
cent per pound upon plain bottle caps
and on decorated bottle caps an in
crease of from As to So per cent.
The reductions in the metal schedule
are more numerous. Heading the list
is iron ore, decreased from 40 to Is
cents per ton. Pig iron. iron kent
ledge and SpiegcleiSen were lowered
from 81 to $3.50 per ton.
Scrap iron and steel from 81 to 81
per ton.
Reductions were made on bar iron,
round iron, slabs and blooms struc-
tural steel not fabricated, anchors, iron