The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-30

number Of other lead products. from
one-fourth to one-eighth of a cent a
pound.
Biehromate and chromate of pot
ash, from three to two and one-fourth
cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash. from two and
one-haf 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 one and one-haIf cents per pound.
Hydrate of or caustic soda from
three-tourths to One-half of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from two
ana one-half to two cents per bound
Sulphate of soda, or salt cake. or
miter cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton
Strychnla or strychnine, from 80 to
8 cents per ounce.
Sulphur. refined or Subljmated or
flowers of, from eight to six dollars
per ton.
In earthenware and glassware there
IS but one increase, according to Mr..
Payne's figures. This is slight and is
made on the smaller sizes of plate
glass The decreases on this schedule
include irebrick, glazed, enameIed 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 $125.
Unpublished cylinder, crown and
common window glass. smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one-eighth
of a cent per pound.
Onyx, in block form, $3.50 per cubic
foot to 50 cents per cubic foot
Marble, sawed or dressed. over two
inches in thickness. from $1.1O to 81
per cubic foot, with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone.
Metal Schedule.
There is a general. reduction in mica
to 80 per cent ad vaIorem.
There was before a mixed specific
and ad valorem system.
Structural steel. fitted for use, falls
in the basket clause at 4 per cent ad
valorem.
There also is an increase on razors,
and upon nippers and pliers
Lithographic plates are increased
from 25 to SO per cent ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosiiicOn, tungsten
and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels are made duti-
able at not more than Is per cent ad
Valorem.
Tungsten ore is made dutfable at 10
per cent.
The duty on watches was readjust-
ed, remaining at about the same as
the Dingley law.
duty of one cent per pound was
put upon the zinc in the ore where it
contains more than 20 per cent of zinc.
On zinc with less than 20 per cent
now has a duty of 20 per cent
There was an added duty of one
half of one cent per pound upon plain
bottle caps, and on decorated bottle
caps the duty was increased from A.
to So per cent.
The reductions in the metal sched-
ule are more numerous and generally
more marked than in most of the
others. Heading the list is iron ore
which was decreased from forty to
fifteen cents per ton. Pig iron, iron
kentledge, and spiegelesin, were low
cred from four dollars to two dollars
and fifty cents per ton.
Scrap iron and steel from four to
one dollar per ton
Reductions were made on bar iron.
round iron, slabs and blooms struc-
tural steel not fabricated. anchors.
iron and steel forgings hoop, band or
scroll iron or steel, steel oanGs or
strips.
The reduction on cotton ties is
from flve-tenths to three-tenths of