Omaha daily bee., 1909-07-31

per pound upon plain bottle caps, and on
decorated bottle caps the duty was in
creased from a to s. per cent.
The reductions in the metal schedule
were made 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 kettles and splegeleizen were
lowered from 81 to $3.50 per ton.
Scrap iron and steel from "a TO 81 per ton
Reductions were made on bar iron. round
iron. slabs and blooms. structural steel not
fabricated, anchors, iron and steel forg-
ings, hoop band or scroll iron or steel,
steel bands or strips.
The reduction on cotton ties is from so
70 $40 Of ! cent per pound, and railway
bars and steel rails from 10 Of l cent per
pound to 40. Iron or steel sheets were
also reduced and the duty on charcoal iron
is made 81 a ton instead Of s12.
other Reductions in Metal.
other reductions in the metal schedule
affect polished sheets; rolled sheets or iron,
steel. copper or nickle; steel ingots. cogged
ingots. blooms and slabs; round iron or
steel wire; steel bars or rods, cold rolled.
cold drawn or cold m or polished;
anvils, axles. blacksmiths' hammers and
sledges, track tools, wedges and crowbars;
bolts, cast iron pipes, cast hollow ware,
chains; lap-welded 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:
rlvets, cross-cut saws. mnlsaws. circular
saws, pit and dragsaws, steel band saws
and all other saws; screws, wheels for rail
way purposes; aluminium, monazite sand
and thorite.
Tin plates reduced from IL to l 2-1O cents
per pound.
Duties on table and carving knives re-
duced and the minimum limit Of the rates
on these knives is made 40 per cent ad
valorem, instead Of As per cent. Material
reductions are made in the rates on files
and the duty on cash registers, jute manu-
featuring machinery, typesetting machines,
machine tools, printing presses, ewing
machines. typewriters and all steam en-
gines is reduced to 30 per cent ad valorem
from the existing rate Of IS per cent. Until
January 1, 1912, embroidery and certain lace
making machines and machines used for
the manufacture Of line cloth and tar and
oil spreading machines used in the con-
| struction Of roads are to be admitted free.
Shingles Are Increased.
In the lumber schedule the only increases
were those on shingles, from 30 cents to so
cents per thousand, and on briar wood and
laurel wood for the use of pipe makers
from the free list to Is per cent ad valorem.
The rate on sawed lumber was decreased
from s. per thousand 10 Sl.25 per thousand.
There was also a diminution on timber
from l cent per cubic foot to u cent, and
on sawed Boards Of white wood and kin
] drpA uynnIa from 0t Nor Thousand IN "a pputg
per thousand. Tho reduction in the diff
f~erential rates in favor of dressed lumber
averaged about one-third of the Dingley
rate. Paving posts, railroad ties and tcle-
phone poles are reduced from 20 to 10 per
cent ad valorem; clapboards from $50 per
thousand to S1.25, laths from 25 cents to %
cents per thousand, while fence posts and
kindling wood were taken from the dutia-
lie list and placed on the free list
The only change in the sugar schedule
consisted of a reduction Of 300 of a cent
In the differential on refined sugar.
In agricultural products broom corn was
taken from the free list and made dutiable
at 50 per ton, Hops are increased from L.
to l6 cents pet pound. There are also in
creases on lemons, figs, almonds, pineap-
Piles and chicory root. The reductions in
the agricultural schedule covered bacon
and hams from 8 to 4 cents per pound.
lard from 2 to III cents, fresh meats from
2 to ~ cents, and starch from ~ to l cent
per pound. Tallow, wool, grease, dextrine,
peas, sugar beets, cabbages and salt were
also lowered.
The wine and liquor schedule was in
creased throughout to 10 per cent over the
Dingley rates.
Cotton Schedule Increased.
The cotton schedule was reconstructed
and readjusted to bring duties up to those
collected during the first four years of the
operation OF the Dlngley law and to the
rates then collected under that law. Since
that time the rates have been lowered, in
some cases from 60 to 6 per cent by court
decisions. These new rates, Mr.. Payne ex-
planned, are equivalent to an addition, on
the whole, of 3 per cent ad valorem. increase
over that collected under the present law
for last year.
Cotton hosiery, valued at not more than
81 per dozen. is increased from 60 to 20
cents per dozen pairs; more than 81 and
less than $50 per dozen pairs, from 60
cents to So cents per dozen pairs; more
than $50 and not more than 81, from 20
cents to 80 cents per dozen pairs.
The remaining rates on stockings are the
same as under the present law.
Hemp is increased from 500 to $3.50 per
ton and hackle hemp from $40 TO S45 per
ton. The cheaper laces remain as I'm tho
present law, but there is an increase from
60 to 20 per cent on some of the higher
priced laces. In this schedule single coarse
yarns are reduced from Z cents per pound,
and gill nettings from % to 20 per cent sd
, valorem.
Carpets and Mats.
There was a general reduction in carpets