The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-03-18

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stantiaily at the same duty as under
the present law:
The duties on woman's and chill
| d.eDs gloves, not over fourteen inches
in length are considerably increased
On 'schmaschen'; glaze OF sheep orr
| gin; 'glace' other than sheep origin;
with exterior grain surface remoV-
ed and kid of other leather than
sheep skin The rate applied to
! the Sc gloves is four dollars per dozen
pair and thirty-five cents In addition
Pc dozen pairs for eacl inch over IA
Some further increases under va
ricus schedules:
Cast polished plate glass, increas-
| ed from eight cents to ten cents par
square foot on sizes not exceeding
sixteen by twenty-foUr square inches
| and on those above that, and not e9-
| ceecIng twenty-four square inches and
on those above that, and not exec cd
ing twenty-four by thirty inches from
ten cents to twelve and One-half cen }
Per square foot, which is reduction
on nearly all of these larger sizes.
''keenes cement or other cement IN
which gypsum is the component ma
teFial OF chief value, from thirty per
centum to thtrty-hYe per centum ad
vaioTem.
''Asphaltum and bitumen, not REIN
ed OF otherwise advanced in condi-
tjOu from it's natural state to fifteen
one hundredths of one cent per pound
on the bitumen contained therein.
''F'luoP-spaT, crude, from ten per-
centUm ad valorem 10 fifty cents per
ton; crushed or otherwise manufac-
tuned from twenty per centum ad
vaiorem to one dollar and seventy-hve
cents per ton.
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new classification, including those
set with prescious stones, pearls or
cOFsls, from forty to fifty per centum
al valOTem-
Watch movements with more than
seven jewels, from thirty-f1ve cents
each and twenty-five per centum I'D
valCrem to seventy cents each; If
more than seven Jewels and not more
than eleven, from fifty cents each and
twenty-five per centum ad valOrem ID
one dollar and tairty-five each; more
than eleven jewels and not more than
fifteen, from 20 cents each and 20 per
eiehty-fve cents each; having more
than seventeen jewels, the rates OF
duty remain the same.
Watch cases, and parts Of watches
and clocks, the duty remains the
same.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from
thu ee to two cents. per pound.
'Tannic acid or tannin, from fifty
cents to tnirty-five cents per pound"
One of the most important changes
of the provision of the bill is that
providing for the method of valuation,
which Mr.. Payne explains as follows:
The bill adds a new paragraph 10
section II Of the customs adminiStrdt-
izrn ugbfNh T,rcuidaS for fha
praisement of goods imported by con-
signment and not by sale where there
is 10 market price at the place of or
igin of the goods. After re-enacting
the present provisions to ascertain
this bill, the bills adds this paragraph:
The actual market value or wholesale
prices, as defined by law, Of any i'm
Dor ted merchandise which is consign-
ed for sale in the United States, or
which is not actually sold and freely
offered for sale in usual Wholesale
quantities in the open market OF the
country of expectation to all purchas-
er5, shall not in any case be appra' s.
ed at less than the wholesale price at
which such or similar imported mer-
chandise is actually sold and offered
fer sale in usual wholesale quantities
in the United States in the open mar
ket to all purchasers, due allowance
by deduction being made for estimat-
ed duties thereon, cost of transpOrta-
ton, insurance and other necessary
expenses from the place of shipment
to the place of delivery and a reason
able commission not exceeding ten
per cetnUm in any Of the same has
been paid
EXPLANATION OF BILL.
The following explanation of the
70, IN OF the bill was made by Mr..
Payne:
"The new tariff bill is q minimum
and maximum tariff bill. The min
imum rates of duty are contained in
the first section and the free list for
the minimum rates is in the second
section Of the bill. The third section
contains the maximum rates, which
ara generally equal TO the minimum
rates and twenty per cent in addition
thereto and the articles on the free
list in the transfer to the third section,
bear a duty OF twenty per centum ad
VaIorem as a maximum rate. The
maximum rate does not go into effect
in any event until sixty days after the
passage of the act. By the fourth sec
ton the minimum rates are applied to
all good terms by way of tariff as that
given to any other nation, and the
maximum rates are applied to those
countries which discriminate against
the trade of the United States or
fail tn give the Tinted States tariT