Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-31

per cent.
The reductions in the metal sched-
ule are more numerous and generally
more marked than in most OF tne
| others Heading the list Is iron ore
| which was decreased from 40 to IL
cents per ton. Pig iron, iron kentledge
and spiegeleizen. were lowered from
81 to $3.50 per ton.
Scrap iron and steel from 81 to 81
per ton. s.,- =
Reductions were made on bar iron
round iron. slabs and blooms, structur-
al steel not fabricated. anchors, iron
and steel forgings. hoop, band or scroll
iron or steel steel bands or strips.
The reduction on cotton ties Is from
$40 to $40 of one cent per pound
and railway bars and steel rails from
7-2O of one cent per pound to 1-4o.
Iron or steel sheets were also reduced
and the duty on charcoal iron is made
Sc a ton instead of $12.
Other reductions in the metal sched-
ule affect polished sheets; rolled sheets
of iron, steel, copper, or nlckel, steer
ienot cogged ignots. blooms and slabs:
round i'm or steel wire; steel bars or
rods, cold rolled, cold drawn. or cold
hammered, or polished; anvils, axles.
blacksmith's hammers and sledges,
track tools, wedges and crOwbars;
bolts, cast iron pipes; cast hollow
ware: chains; lap welded or jointe'l
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; wheel for railway
purposes; aluminium; monaziteS and,
thorite.
Tin plates reduced from one and
one-half to 2-1O cents per pound.
Duties on table and carving knives
reduced and the minimum limit rates
on these knives is made 40 per cent.
ad valorem, instead of As. Material
reductions are made in the rates on
files and the duty on cash registers
jute manufacturing machinery, type
setting machines. machine tools. print
ing presses. sewing machines, type
writer's. and all steam engines, is re-
duced to 80 per cent. ad valorem from
the existing rate of As per cent. Until
Jan. 1. 1912. embroidery and certain
lace making machines. and machines
used for the manufacture of linen
CLOTH and tar and oil spreading ma
chimes used in the construction of
roads. are to be admitted free.
In the lumber schedule the only in
creases were those on shingles from so
cents to so cents per thousand, and or
briarwood and laurel wood for the use
of pipe makers from the free list t.
Is per cent ad valorem. The rate on
sawed lumber was decreased from S.
per thousand to $1.25 per thousand
There was also a diminution on tim
Der from one cent per cubic foot t.
one-half cent, and on sawed board.
of white wood and kindred woods from.
81 per thousand to so cents per thous
and The reduction in the differential
rates in favor of dressed lumber aver
aged about one third OF the DingleS
rate. Paying posts, railroad ties ant
telephone poles are reduced from q
to 10 per cent. ad valorem clapboard.
from $50 per thousand to $1.25; lath
from rs cents to 20 cents per thous
and, while fence posts and kindlins
wood were taken from the dutiable lis
and placed on the free list.
The only change in the sugar SEIZED
ule consisted Of reduction of $40
of cent in the differential on refined
sugar
In agricultural products broom corr
was taken from the free list and mad,
dutiable at SO per ton. Hops are in
creased from II to l6 cents per pound
There are also increases on lemons
figs. almonds, pineapples and chicor.
root. The reductions in the agricul
tural schedule covered bacon and ham:
from five to four cents per pound, lar
from two to IL cents, fresh meat: :,
from two to ~ cents and starch from
u. to one cent per Iound. Tallow, WOO
grease. deXtrin, peas. sugar, beets, cab
bages and salt were also lowered.
The wine LIQUORS schedule was in
creased throughout to Is per cent owe
the Dinsley rates.
The cotton schedule was reconstruct
ed and readjusted to bring the dutie
up to those collected during the frs
four years of the operation of the Ding
ley law and to the rates then collected
under that law. Since that time tn,
from go to six per cent. by court deci
sions. These new rates Mr.. Payne ex
planned, are equivalent to an addition
or the whole. of three per cent. a,
valoreT increase over that collected
under the present law for last year.
Cotton hosiery, valued at not more
than 81 per dozen is Increased, from 81
to 10 cents per dozen pairs; more thar
81 and less than $1.50 per dozen pairs.
from 60 cents to 81 cents per dozen
pairs; more than s1.5G and not NOR,
than 81, from 10 cents to 80 cents pc
dozen pairs.
The remaining rates on stockings or,
the same as under the present law.
Hemp is increased from $40 to s225
per ton and hackle hemp from $40 t..
s45 per ton. The cheaper laces ren,aii
as in the present law, but there is an
increase from $50 to $40 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 ncttings from Is to-
20 ger cent. al valorem.
Tharo -.