Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1909-07-14
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The sugar schedule was not chang
ed. bat saccharine was advanced from
80 to 70 cents per pound.
Farm products are advanced
Barley, from "a to 30 cents per bushel |;
barley malt. 40 to 40 cents; broom
corn, taken from the free list and
made dutiable at So ton; oats, from
10 to 20 cents per bushel; rye, from
10 to 20 cents per bushel; wheat, flom
% to 80 cents per bushel; potatoes,
from % to 45 cents per bushel; dried
peas. from % to 80 cents per bushel /;
hops, IL to 20 cents per pound; cab
bage, to cents each; sugar beets,
reduced from % to 10 per cent ad
valorem.
Sweetened biscuits and fancy cakes
are taken from a basket clause OF 20
per cent ad valorem and made du-
table at 80 per cent.
OYSTERS in the she'll are a new item
dutiable at % per cent ad valorem.
Lemons are advanced from II to
~ cents per pound.
Fresh beef is advanced FROM l =
to cents per pound.
Aldrich cut the rate ON chicory
root from to 21s cents per pound ;
cocoa from 8 to ~ cents per pound ;
cocoa butter from to 31S cents per
pound.
Salt is reduced from - cents pei
100 pounds in bags and s cents pei
100 pounds in bulk to 10 and cents
respectively.
Ground mustard is reduced from
10c per pound and 80 per cent ad
valorem to 1Oc per pound, and spices
are sent from 1Oc DER pound to the
free list.
The Aldrich bill carries sharp
advance on champagnes and liquors
Champagne. per dozen quartes. IS to
50 60; brandy, So 90 to So 60 per gal
lon; bay rum, ST. 80 to 81. 70 per gal.
Ion; still wines, 40 to 45c per gallon
ale and porter, stout, beer and malt
extracts in bottles, 40 to 45c per gal
lon; cherry and fruit juices, 60 to zoe
per gallon.
Aldrich claims there is an advance
in silks and reduction In the cotton
and wooden schedules. He has re-
drafted these schedules, substituting
wherever possible the specific duty
for its equivalent ad valorem. House
tariff experts deny the reduction and
charge material advances on all
schedules.
Top waste wool is advanced from
20 to soc per pound; shoddy from 20
to 25c; nails from Is to 20c; WOODEN
rags from Is to zoe.
Floor oilcloths are reduced from SC
square yard and IS per cent ad
valorem to &c and Is per cent ad
valorem.
Cotton bagging is taken from the
pdut1able list at 6-10 of 1 cent square
yard and sent to the free list.
Women's and children's gloves are
reduced from the Payne 81 per dozeI
and 81 per cent ad valorem rate tt
50. rs, So. Is and $l.75 per dozen by
grades.
The products of petroleum are
taken from the free list. Those pro
ducts used for medicinal purposes arr
sent to their proper schedule and made
dutiable.
Tallow is taken from the free lis
and made dutiable a half a cent
per pound.
Uncut diamonds are reduced from
| 10 per cent ad valorem to 5 per cent
ad valorem, and cut diamonds are
increased from 10 pei cent to L
per cent ad valorem.
The duty on coal is reduced from
&c to Coo per ton.
Blasting caps used in mining are
increased from 50 to So % per thou
sand. Miners life saving apparatus
is admitted free.
Bed feathers, not manufactured, are
picked up as a new item and made
dutiable at 10 per cent ad valorem.
Mechanical ground wood pulp is put
on the free list; under the Payne bill
it was dutiable at one-twelfth of one
per cent per pound.
The Aldrich bill carries a general
reduction in the iron and steel
schedules from the Payne bill.
The chemical schedule was un
changed.