The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1909-08-06

cents per ton to 45 cents, and there
is also a 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 it's products come in under
the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrOus ammonia, from 70
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 ard 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 cent to If
teen hundredths of one cent per
pound.
Iodoform from 81 to IS cents per
pound.
Licorice from Az to 21a 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
1k to one cent per pound.
Varnishes from 35 per cent. to 25
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 pound.
Bichromate and chromate OF potash
from three to PA cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 2la 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 IN cents per pound.
Hydrate of, or caustic soda, from
three-fourths to one-half of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from 21a
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 80 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
schedule include::>
Fire brick, glazed, enameled. 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 s125.
Unpublished, cylinder, crown and
common window glass, smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one eighth
of a cent per pound.
Onyx in block, from $3.50 per cubic
foot to 65 cents per cubic foot
Duty Lowered on Marble.
Marble, sawed or dressed, over two
inches il thickness, from $1.10 TO 81
per cubic loot, with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone.
There is general reduction in mica
to 30 per cent. ad valorem. There
was before mixed specific and ad
valorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use, falls
In the basket clause at IS per cent. ad
valorem
There also is an increase on razors,
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increased
from Is to so per cent ad valorem.
Chrome metal. ferrosilicon. tungsten,
and other new metals used In the
manufacture Of steels. are made duti-