River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1909-08-05

Bituminous coal is reduced from 81
cents per ton to As cents, and there
is also 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 its products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia, from %
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 80 to
35 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
terial from four to two cents per
pound.
Chloroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound.
Copperas from one-fourth cent to IF
teen hundredths of one cent per
pound.
Iodoform from 81 to rs cents per
pound.
Licorice from Az to 21s cents per
pound.
Cottonseed Oil on Free List.
Cottonseed oil and cotton oil from
the dutiable to the free list.
Flaxseed, linseed and poppy seed
oil from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
Peppermint oil from so to 25 cents
per gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths, and umber and umber
earths, if ground in oil or water, from
~ to one cent per pound.
Varnishes from 35 per cent. to rs
per cent ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from $1.32 per gallon and 35 per cent.
ad valorem to 35 cents per gallon and
35 per cent ad valorem; white lead,
acetate of lead, and a number of other
lead products, from one-fourth to one
eighth of a cent a pound.
Bichromate and chromate of potash
from three to 2A cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 21a 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 Ia cents per pound.
three-fourths to one-half of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from 214
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 30 to
Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimated, or
flowers of, from So to Sc per ton.
In earthenware and glassware
there is but one increase. This is slight
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 80 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 cent per pound.
foot to 65 cents per cubic foot.
Duty Lowered on Marble.
Marble, sawed or dressed, over two
inches in thickness, from $1.10 to 81
per cubic foot, with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone.
There is a general reduction in mica
to 80 per cent. ad valorem. There
was before a mixed specific and ad
valorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use, falls
in the basket clause at 45 per cent. ad
valorem.
There also is an increase on razors,
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increased
from % to so per cent ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosilicon, tungsten,
and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels, are made duti-