Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-07-30
Increase in Rates.

stu more striking.
Increase in Rates.
Taking the schedules in their order
he gave, first, the increases and then
the decreases. The figures, in all cases.
were compar isons with the Dingley
law.
In schedule A, relating to chemicals.
he gave the increases as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia from %
per cent ad valorem to 5 cents per
pound.
Manufactures Of collodion increased s
per cent.
Cocoa leaves increased 5 cents per
pound.
Fancy soaps increased from Is cents
per pound to so per centum ad valorem.
The list of decreases in this schedule
was much longer. the principal items
being as follows:
Boracic acid from to cents per
pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from 3
to 2 cents per pound.
Salicylic acid from 10 to cents per
pound.
Tannic acid or tannin from 80 to So
| cents per pound.
Sulphate of ammonia from three
| tenths cent per pound to the free list.
Borax from } to cents per pound.
BOrate of lime and other bOrate ma
| terial from 4 to 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 IS cents per
pound.
Lcorice from Az to a1a cents per
pound.
Cottonseed oil and croton oil from
the dutiable list to the free list.
Flaxseed. linseed and poppyseed oil
from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
Peppermint oil from SO. to 20 cents
per gallon.
ocher and ochery earths. sienna and
sienna earths and lumber and lumber
earths, IL ground in oil or water, from
- to cent per pound.
Varnishes from 80 per cent to % per
cent ad valorem:. Methylated, and spirit
varnishes from $40 per gallon and 50
per cent ad yalorem to 80 cents per
gallon and 35 per cent ad valorem.
White lead, acetate Of lead and num-
Der of other lead products. from one
fourth to one-eighth of cent a pound.
Bichromate and chromate Of potash,
from to IN cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash. from ~ to cents
per pound.
Crystal carbonate of soda, from three
tenths to one-fourth of 1 cent per pound:
chlorate of soda, from to IL cents per
pound.
Hydrate of or caustic soda. from three
fourths to one-half of 1 cent per pound;
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pound.
Sulphate of soda. or salt cake, or inter
cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton.
Strychnia or strychnine, from so to 10
cents per ounce.
Sulphur. refined or sublined, or flowers
of. from 50 to So per ton.
In earthenWare and glassware there is
but one increase, according to MI
Payne's figures. This is slight and is
made on the smaller sizes of plate glass
Decrease in Rates.
The decreases on this schedule include
Fire brick, glazed. enameled, ETC., from
45 per cent to 35 per cent adj valorem;
brick. other than friedrich, II glazed,
from 45 per cent to 35 per cent ad va
loren.
Plaster rock or gypsum. crude, from
90 to 80 cents per ton; If ground or cal
cined, from $2.2j to $1.25.
Unpublished, cylinder, crown and COM
mon window glass, smaller glass and
cheaper values, reduced one-eighth of a
cent per pound.
ONYX in block. from si.5O per cubic foot
to 60 cents per cubic foot.
Marble, sawed or dressed. over two
inches in thickness, from $1.1O to 81 per
cubic foot, with other reductions on the
entire marble paragraph and on other
stone.
There is general reduction in mica
before mixed specific and ad valorem
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
Llthographic plates are increased from
% to 50 per cent ad yalorem.
chrome metal. ferrosilicon, tungsten and
other new metals used in the manufa cture
OF steels are made dutiable at not more
than 10 per cent ad valorem. Tungsten
ore is made dutiabie at 10 per cent
The duty on watches was readjusted. re-
manning at about the same as the Dingley
law.
A duty of l cent per pound was put
upon the sine in the ore where it con-
tains more than 20 per cent of zinc. On
zinc with less than 20 per cent there is
of % per cent
There was an added duty of one-half of
! cent per pound upon plain bottle caps,
and on decorated bottle caps the duty
was increased from 45 to 55 per cent.
Reductions in Metal Schedule.
The reductions in the metal schedule
are more numerous and generally more
| marked than In most Of the others Head
ing the list is iron ore, which was de-
creased from 40 to Is cents per ton.
Pig iron, iron kentledge and spiegeieisen
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, structural
steel not fabricated, anchors, iron and
steel forginSs, hoop, band or scroll iron
or steel, steel bands or strips
The reduction on cotton ties is from
hve-tenths to three-tenths of / cent per
pound. and railway bars and steel rails
from seven-twentieths of l cent per
pound to seven-fOrtieths. Iron or steel
sheets were also reduced and the duty on
charcoal iron is made SO ton instead OF
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Other reductions in the metal schedule
affect polished sheets. rolled sheets OF
iron. steel, copper or nickel, steel fngots,
coggcd ingots, blooms and slabs, round
iron or steel wire, steel bars or rods cold
| rolled. cold drawn cold hammered or
ponshed; anvils, aXles, blacksmithS
| hammers and sledges, track tools, wedges
hollow ware, chains. lap-welded or joint
ed iron or steel boiler tubes, cut nails and
| spikes. horseshoe nails wire nails spikes,
nuts and washers, cut tacks, steel plates
engraved, rivets, crOss-cut saws, mill
saws, circular saws, pit and drag saws,
steel band saws and all other saws
screws, wheels for railway purposes,
aluminium. mOnaSite sand and thorite
Tin plates reduced from one and one
half TO one and two-tenths cents per
pound
Duties on table and carving knives are
| reduced and the minimum limit of the
rate on these knives is made 10 per cent
ad valorenl. instead Of IS. Material re-