The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1909-08-05

SUMMONS coal IL reQ0ce0 from Of
cents per ton to As cents, and there
is also q reduction on gunpowder,
matches and cartridges. Agricultural
implements go OF from 20 per cent.
ad valorem to Is per cent. and the
older works of art III placed upon
the free list. Petroleum, which re-
ceived much attention in both
houses, slips through without any
duty, co%untervailing OF otherwise, and
most of its products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia. from rs
per cent. ad valorem to five cents per
pound.
Manufactures OF eollodion, 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 SO 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 cen to If
teen hundredths of one cent per
pound.
1odoform from 81 to Is cents per
pound.
Licorice from ~ to ~ cents per
pound.
cottonsced 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 Is cents
per gallon.
Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths, and lumber and lumber
earths, If ground In oil or. water, from
~ to n cent per pound.
Varnishes from IS per cent. to Is
per cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from $1.32 per gallon and IS per cent.
ad valorem to So 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 ~ cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from az toetwo
cents per pound.
Crystal carbonate of soda from
three-tenths to one-fourth of one cent
per pound; chlorate of soda from two
to ~ cents per pound.
Hydrate of, o. caustic soda, from
three-fourths to one-half of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from ~
to two cents per pound.
Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, OF
inter cake, from $1.25 to 81 per ton
S%trychnia, or strychnine, from 80 to
is cents per ounce
Sulphur. refined or sublimated, OF
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 o.
plate glass. The decreases in this
schedule include:
Fire brick. glazed, enameled, and sc
forth, from 45 per cent. to IS per cent
ad valorem; brick, other than fire
brick, II glazed, from IS per cent. tt
IS per cent. ad valorem.
Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, from
so to 30 cents per ton; IL ground Of
calcined, from 1925 to $1.25.
Unpublished, cylinder, crown and
common window glass, smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one.eightf
"a NOAS pOA HOuAA.
Onyx in block, from $3.50 per cubi,
foot to 65 cents per cubic foot.
Duty Lowered on Marble.
Marble, sawed or dressed, v e two
inches in thickness, from $1.1O to 5,
per cubic foot, with other reduction,
on the entire marble paragraph ant
on other stone.
There is a general reduction in mics
to 30 per cent. ad valorem. There
was before q mixed specific and az
valorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use, fall,
in the basket clause at As per cent. a,
valOrem.
There also Ii an increase on razors
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increase,
from Is to SO per cent. ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosilicon, tungsten
and other metals used In tn,
manufacture Of steels, + made duti