The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1909-03-18

Jttcf were % I'efi.iit Inc Tree entry
II woodrulr. not imposing export
duty and 10 reduce printing paper
valued at not above IA cents per
pound; from three-tenths to one
tenth of one cent Per pound; valued
not above , IL cents a pound from
four-tenths TO two-tcnths of one cent
per pound"
Reductions Exceed Increase
The reductions in duty are much
more numerous than the increases. In
the schedule on chemicals, oils and
paints, they are:
"Boraic acid. borax from 5 cents to
cents per pound, reductions OF
cents per pound are made on gallic
and tartaric acids, borate of lime
Reductions of so percent are made in
the duty on salicilic acid, chloroform,
fruit others. oils or essences: pepper
mint oil: whiting and paris white,
dry; bichromate and chromate Of
potash and santonin.
"Sulphite of ammonia, copperas
licorice, cOttOnseed Oil and croton oil
are put on the free list"
The statement gives the following:
Schedule on earths and earthen.
ware: Fire brick and other brick OF
guazed and enameied, from As per-
centum to 35 per percentum ad va.
loren.
Plaster rock or gypsum. crude,
from 80 cents to 40 cents per ton: if
ground or calcined from 1926 to $1.75
per ton
'Unpolished. cylinder crown and
common window glass, above "a by
80 inches square, reduced one-eighth
or a cent per pound on all sizes; cyl
1nder and crown glass, above "a by 80
and not exceeding "a by 60 inches
square. reduced from Is cents to 12
cents per square foot; sizes above that
from 20 cents to Is cents per square
foot.
Medal Schedule.
Iron ore and basic Stag, from 40
cents per ton to the free list.
Pig iron. kentlidge and spiegelei-
sen. from 81 per ton to $3.50.
Scrap iron and steel, from 81 per
ton to so cents per ton.
Bar iron, from six-tenths of one
cent to four-tenths of one cent per
pound
Round iron. less than seven-six-
teenths of one inch in diameter. from
of one cent to six-tenths
OF one cent per pound:
slabs, blooms. loops. or other forms
less finished than bars. from five
tenthS of one cent to four-tenths of
one cent per pound.
charcoal iron, from $12 to Sc Der
ton.
Beams. Orders, joists, angles and
so forth, from five-tenths of one cen
TO three-tenths of one cent per pound.
Anchors. from 10 cents per
pound to l cent.
Iron and steel forgings from 35
to 30 percentum ad
7alorem
Hoop, band or scroll iron or steel,
not thinner than number ten wire
suage, from five-tenths of one cent
o three-tenths of one cent per pound:
thinner than number ten and not thin
Ter than number twenty. froa n six
enths OF one cent to four-tent"s of a
'ent per pound; thinner than number
wenty. from eight-tenths to s;x-tenths |
II one cent per pound Stee! bands |
'r strips. untempered, suitable for |
making bandsaws, from 3 cents per
found and 20 percentum ad valorem,
rom cents per pound and 20 per
entum ad va!orem. 3 cents per pound
nd 20 percentum ad valnrem
Cotton ties from fiyetenths of l
ent per pound. to threc-tenths.
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Timber, from cent per cubic foot
o one-half cent per cubic foot.
Sawed boards, planls. white wood,
ycamOre and bass wood from 81 per
900 to so cents per 1000.
All other lumber from Sl2 TO 81.
Laths. from 25 cents per l 900 pieces
20 cents per 1000 pieces
Fence posts, from 10 per conturn
D free list.
Barley from 80 cents per bushcl to
5 cents.
Barley malt. from As cents TO 25
ents.
"Cahbages. from 3 to cents each.
Bacon and hams. from 5 cents per
ound to cents
Fresh meats, from cents to 70
ents
Sugar, refined, reduced from cent
nd nfnety-five one-hundredths of one
ent per pound
FLAX straw. not hacked or dressed,
, the free list
Carpets, mats, etc, from cents
or square yard and 35 per centum ad
alorem when valued at not above Is
ents per square. If valued above
fteen cents, from 10 cents per square
ard and 35 per centum ad valorem
Wool of the third class, known as
arpet wool, from duty of 4 cents per
0und on such wool worth ~ cents or
'ss and duty of cents per pound
pom such wool exceeding IL cents in
alue to duty of 3 cents per pound on
ich wool, valued at not more than 10
ents> per pound; and if valued at
ore than 10 cents per pound and not
ore than 16 cents per pound. 3 cents
Or pound. and in addition thereto
1e-half of one per cent per pound
n each cent per pound additional
llue exceeding 10 cents: if valued at
ore than 16 cents. cents per pound
Hides of cattle. from IS per centum
valOrem to free list.
Band and sole leather. from 20 per