The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1909-04-27

the various grades of material bear
ing single nme. Under the title Of
cotton cloth, for instance, the rates
of duty on cloths not exceeding SO
threads to the square inch, counting
warp and filling, are 1 cent per yard
if the material is not bleached, dyed
or colored, but IA cents per yard if
bleached, and 2 cents per yard if dyed,
threads per square inch exceeds and
does not exceed 100 the rates are still
higher-1A cents per square yard on
that which is not bleached, dyed or
colored and does not exceed square
yards to the pound, but Y cents per
square yard on that exceeding 6
square yards to the pound and IL
cents per square yard if it exceeds 8
square yards to the pound; for that
which is bleached still another rate OBJ
tains for the various grades; and for
that which is dyed or colored another
and still higher rate.
For cloths exceeding 100 and not ex-
ceeding $50 threads to the square inch
the rates are yet higher for the vari-
Gus classes, whether unbleached,
bleached, or dyed, and also in proper
ton to the number of square yards
per pound For other grades, exceed
ing $50 and not exceeding 200 threads
to the square inch, the rates are high
er. For those exceeding 200 and not
exceeding 800 threads to the square
inch even higher rates are named for
the various classes and grades. On
cotton cloths alone the duties collected
in 1907 were but million dollars
The class of cotton goods which pays
the largest sum is that of lace, which
paid in 1907, "a million dollars, out of
80 million paid by cotton manufactures
as whole. This class of cotton laces
includes laces, lace window curtains,
tides, pillow Sims, bed sets, napkins
and other articles made wholly or in
part of lace or in imitation of lace;
wells and yelling, embrideries, edgings,
insertings, and many other articles;
and pays a duty of 60 per cent. Lace
window curtains, pillow shams and
bed sets made on Nottingham lace
curtain machines if they have points
or spaces to the inch counting between
the warp threads, pay ~ cents per
square yard plus 20 per cent of the
value; if they contain 7 points or
spaces to the square inch they pay
cents per square yard and 20 per
cent of the value; and so on, the rate
increasing with the number of points
or spaces to the inch Tor in other
words with the increase in fineness of
the lace), until those having Is points
or spaces to the inch pay 71s cents
per square yard plus 20 per cent. of
the value.
The above complicated features of
the Cotton Goods Schedule" of the
existing tariff law are stated some
what in detail as an example of the
difficulties which confront the maker
of the tariff and the officers of the
Government who determine the
amount of duty to be collected and
actually collected on the thousands of
articles and many thousands of grades
of different articles imported; and to
further indicate that while it is true
that twelve different articles or class
es of articles pay three-fourths of the
duties collected, the details of fixing
the rates of duty, and of determining
the amount of duty which should be
paid and of calculating the amount
actually collected, are, after all, most
difficult and tedious, and explain in
some degree the difficulties of the
ask of making new tariff, of collect
ng the duties which it names, and of
stating in concrete form the results of
hese operations.