Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-05
TARIFF MEASURE
MAKES GUT IN
MANY SCHEDULES
Fight for Lower Duties on
Wood Pulp and Print
Paper Is Won.
SLIGHT INCREASE IN RATES ON
HOSIERY.

Metal Schedules Are Lower-Duty on
Rough Lumber Changed from So
to $1.25 per Thousand Feet-suaar
and Tobacco Schedules Remain
Substantially as Under the DingIey
5ill-LittIe Change in Wool Duties.
Washington.-Tarin rates under the
new measure. on the most important
articles Of consumption, have been de-
eided on as follows:
In the lumber schedule the only in
creases were those on shingles from
20 cents to so cents per 1000, and on
briar wood and laurel wood for the
use of pipe makers from the free list
to is per cent ad valcrem. The rate
on sawed lumber was decreased from
81 per 1000 to $1.25 per 1000. There
was also a diminution on timber from
one cent. per cubic foot to one-half
cent, and on sawed boards of white
wood and kindred woods from 81 per
1000 to so cents per 1000. The re-
auction in the differential rates in
favor Of dressed lumber averaged
about one-third of the Dingley rate.
Paving posts, railroad ties and tele-
phone poles are reduced from 90 to
10 per cent. ad valorem; clapboards
from $3.50 per 1000 to $1.25: laths
from 25 cents to 20 cents per 1000.
while fence posts and kindling wood
were taken from the dutiable list and
placed on the free list.
The only change in the sugar SEIZED
ule consisted Of a reduction of five
hundredths Of cent ia the differen-
tial on refined sugar.
In agricultural products broom corn
was taken from the free list and made
dutable at three dollars per ton.
HOPS are increased from 10 to 16
cents per pound There are also in
creases on lemons. figs. almonds. pine
apples and chicory root. The reduc-
lions in the agricultural schedule Gov
cred bacon and hams from five to four
cents per pound, lard from two to
one ana onehalf cents, fresh meats
from two to one and one.half cents.
and starch from one and one-half to
enc cent per pound Tallow, wool
grease, dextrin. peas, sugar beets,
cabbages and salt were also lowered.
The wine and liquor schedule was
increased throughout to Is per cent.
over the Dingley rates.
The cotton schedule was recon-
etructed and readjusted to bring the
duties up to those collected during the
first four years of the operation of the
Dingley law and to the rate then col
lected under that law Since that
time the rates have been lowered in
some cases from 60 to 6 per cent by
court decisions. These new rates are
equivalent to an addition. on the
whole, Of three per cent. ad valorem
increase over that collected under the
present law for last year.
Cotton Hosiery.
Cotton hosiery, valued at not more
than 81 per dozen is increased from
90 to 70 cents per dozen pairs; more
than 81 and less than S150 per dozen
pairs from 60 cents to IS cents per
dozen pairs; more than $3.50 and not
more than So from 70 cents to 90
cents per dozen pairs.
The remaining rates on stockings
are the same as under the present
law.
Hemp is increased from $50 to
$3.50 per ton and haclde hemp from
$40 to S45 per ton The cheaper laces
remain as in the present law. but
there is an increase from 60 TO 70 per
cent on some of the higher priced
faces. In this schedule single coarse
yarns are reduced from seven cents
to six cents per pound and gill net
tings from % to 20 per cent. ad va
loren
There was general reduction in
carpets and mats.
A reduction from 20 cents to Is
cents is made in hydraulic hose. Oil
cloth, including linoleum, was re-
duced about one-third
There was practically no change in
the wool schedule from the rates Of
che Dingley law. but there was re-
adjustment between tops and yarns
and a small decrease on cloths with a
cotton warp.
Mechanically ground wood pulp was
exempted from duty and placed on
the free list with a provision for a
countervailing duty against Canada.
The lower grade Of printing paper
was reduced from Sc to S3.75 per ton
and the higher grade from So to S3.75.
There is am increase on surface coat
ed paper and lithographing prints, in
GLIDING postcards and cigar labels.
Common window glass of. the lower
The Clyde Of Land"