The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-07-31
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in the basket clause at 4s per cent at valorem.
 Rasor Duty Raised.
 There also Is an increase on razori and upon nippers and pliers.
 Photographic plates are increased from 25 to 50 per cent ad valorem Chrome metal, ferro silicon, tungsten and other new metals used in the man. ufacture of steels are made dutiable al not more than 15 per cent ad valorem Tungsten ore is made dutiable at 1t per cent.
 The duty on watches was readjusted remaining at about the same as the Dingley law.
 A duty of cent per pound was put on the zinc in the ore where 1t con tains more than 20 per cent of zinc. Or zinc with less than 20 per cent there is lower rate of duty. Zinc now has a duty of 20 per cent.
 There was an added duty of 1-2 to cent per pound upon plain bottle caps and on decorated bottle caps the duty was increased from 45 to 55 per cent
 The reductions in the metal schedule are more numerous and generally more marked than in most of the others Heading the list Is iron ore which was decreased from 70 to 15 cents per ton
  sen were lowered from $4 to S2.50 per ton.
 Scrap iron and steel from "A to $l per ton.
 Reductions were made on bar iron round iron, slabs and blooms structural steel, not fabricated. anchors, iron and steel forgings. hoop, band or scroll iron or steel, steel bands Or strips.
 Cotton Ties Drop. rvrL- la 5-8 to 3-1o of per cent per pound and railway bars and steel rails from 7-2f of cent per pound to TAO. Iron ol steel sheets we're also reduced and the duty on charcoal iron Is made S6 ton instead of s12.
 Other reductions in the metal sched- ule after polished sheets. rolled sheets of iron, steel, copper or nickel; steel ingots. cogged ingcts. blooms and slabs; round iron or steel wires; steel bars or rods; cold rolled, cold drawn or cold hammered or polished; anvils axles, blacksmith's hammers and sledEes; track tools. wedges and crow bars; bolts, cast iron pipes, cast hol- low ware chains, lap welded or joint ed iron for 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 saw. pit and drag saws, steel band saws and all oth- CT saws: screws, wheels for railway purposes. aluminium, monaZite sand and thorite.
 Tin plates, reduced from 1 1-2 to 1 2-10 cents per pound.
 Duties on table and carving knives reduced and the minimum limit of the rates on these knives is made 40 peI cent ad valorem instead of 45. Mate. rial reductions are made in the rates on files and the duty on cash registers jute manufacturing machinery. type setting machinery and machine tools printing presses, sewing machines typewriters and ah steam engines 1. reduced to 30 per cent ad valorem from the existing rate of 45 per cent. Unti January 1, 1912, embroidery and cer. tain lace-making machines and ma chimes used for the manufacture of lin en cloth, and tar and oil spreading ma chimes used in the construction of roadi are to be admitted free.
 Few Increases On Lumber. In the lumber schedule the only in creases were those on shingles from 3t cents to 50 cents per thousand and or ! briarwood and laurel wood for the us' of pipe-makers from the free list to Il | per cent ad valorem.
 The rate on sawed lumber was de creased from $2 per thousand to S1.2 per thousand. There was also a dim mutton on timber from 1 per cent pc cubic foot to 1-2 cent and on sawe' boards of white wood and kindre, woods from $1 per thousand to 50 cent per thousand. The .'eduction of tn differential rates in favor of dresse lumber averaged about one-third of tn l Dingley rates. Paving posts, railroa' ties and telephone poles are reduce l from 20 to 10 per cent ad valorem | clapboards from $1.50 per thousand t t1.25; 1aths from 25 cents to 20 cent per thousand. while fence posts an kindling wood were taken from the du tiable list and placed on the free lis
 The only change in the sugar sched ule consisted of a reduction of five hundredths of a cent in the differentia | on refined sugar.
 In agricultural products, broom corr was taken from the free list and mad dutiable at $3 per ton. Hops are in creased from 12 to 16 cents a 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 to 4 cents per pound; lard iron 3 to l Ia cents. fresh meats from to l and 1-2 cents and starch iron l 1-2 to l cent per pound. Tallow wool. grease, dextrtn. peas, sugar beets cabbage and salt were also lowered.
 Wines and liquor schedule was in creased throughout to 15 per cent. owe the Dingley rates.
 Cotton Schedule Readtusted.
 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 tn [ Dingley law and to the rates then col lected under that law.
 Since that time the rates have beel lowered in some cases from sixty to si. per cent, by court decisions. Thes new rates, Mir. Payne explained, ar equivalent to an addition, on tn whole. of three per cent. ad valorem in | crease over that collected under tn present law for last year.
 Cotton hosiery, valued at not nor than $1 per dozen. Is increased iron 50 to 75 cents per dozen pairs; nor | than Sl and leRa than S1.6O nar dos