Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-08-05

is also a reduction on gunpowder,
matches and cartridges. Agricultural
implements go off from 20 per cent.
ad valorem to Is per cent. and the
older works of art are placed upon
the free list. Petroleum, which re-
ceived much attention in both
houses, slips through without any
duty, countervailing or otherwise, and
most of it's products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia, from 25
per cent. ad valorem to five cents per
pound
Manufactures of collodion, increased
five per cent.
Coca leaves increased five cents per
pound.
Fancy soaps increased from Is cents
per pound to SO per centum ad va
loren.
The list of decreases in this sched-
ule was much longer, the principal
items being as follows:
Boracic acid from five to two cents
per pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from
three to two cents per pound.
Salicylic acid from ten to seven
cents per pound.
Tannic acid, or tannin, from so to
So cents per pound.
Sulphate Of ammonia from three
tenths cent per pound to free list
Borax from five to two cents per
pound.
Borate of lime and other borate ma
teral from four to two cents per
pound
Chloroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound
Copperas from one-fourth cent to fiji
teen hundredths of one cent per
pound
Iodoform from 81 to rs cents per
pound.
Licorice from Az to 21a cents per
pound
Cottonseed Oil on Free List.
Cottonseed oil and cotton oil from
the dutiable to the free list
oil from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
Peppermint oil from SO to rs cents
per gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths, and umber and umber
earths, If ground in oil or water, from
/ u to one cent per pound
Varnishes from 35 per cent. to Is
per cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from $1.32 per gallon and IS per cent
ad valorem to IS cents per gallon and
IS per cent. ad valorem; white lead,
acetate of lead, and number of other
lead products, from one-fourth to one
eighth of a cent pound
Bichromate and chromate of potash
from three to IA cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 2h to two
cents per pound.
Crystal carbonate of soda from
three-tenths to one-fourth of one cent
per pound; chlorate of soda from two
to II cents per pound
Hydrate of, or caustic soda, from
three-fourths to one-half of one cent
to two cents per pound.
Sulphate of soda, or salt cake or
inter cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton
Strychnia, or strychnine, from 80 to
Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimated, or
flowers of, from So to Sc per ton.
In earthenware and glassware
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and is made on the smaller sizes of
plate glass. The decreases in this
schedule include:
Fire brick, glazed, enameled, and SO
forth, from as per cent. to 35 per cent.
ad valorem; brick, other than fire
brick. if glazed, from As per cent. to
35 per cent ad valorem.
Plaster rock. or gypsum, crude, from
SO to 80 cents per ton; if ground or
calcined, from 1925 to S125
Unpublished, cylinder, crown and
common window glass, smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one-eighth
of cent per pound.
Onyx in block, from s15O per cubic
foot to IS cents per cubic foot.
Duty Lowered on Marble.
Marble, sawed or dressed, over two
inches in thickness, from $11O to 81
per cubic foot. with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone
There is general reduction in mica
to 80 per cent. ad valorem. There
was before mixed specific and ad
Yalorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use, falls
in the basket clause at As per cent. ad
valorem.
There also is an increase on razors,
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increased
from 25 to SO per cent. ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosilicon, tungsten,
and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels. are made duti-
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