Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-19

are increased from fifteen per centum 20
twenty per centum ad valorem, and dress
ed or colored feathers receive an increase
Of ten per centum. Furs, dressed on the
skin, are assessed twenty-seven and half
per centum ad yalorem-
Duties on the following articles have
been Increased because the committee
found that there was not sufficient pro-
lection under the present law" said Mr..
Payne:
Coal tar dyes or colors. now bearing
duty of thirty per centum, TO thirty-fve
per centum ad valorem; zinc In ore, now
brought i'm at twenty per centum ad
vaIorem. to one cent per pound for the
zinc contents contained therein.
Peas, split peas, from forty cents TO
forty-ive cents per bushel. Figs, from
two cents to two and one-half cents per
pound Lemons. from one cent TO one and
one-fourth cents per pound. Pineapples,
from seven dollars per thousand to- eight
dollars per thousand.
Increases in the cotton schedule are:
IAN additional duty of one cent per
yard on mercerized fabrics "a new pro-
cess Of manufacture invented since the
present law was enacted.
ALSO a small additional duty on lappets
There Is also an increased duty on stock
fngs fashioned and shaped wholly or in
part on knitting machines"
Changes in, the paper schedule, which
include those recommended by the special
committee on wood pulp and print paper
investigation, are:
Surface coated papers, covered with
metal, from three cents to twenty per
centum, TO five cents and twenty per cent
UNI adv alorem; other surface coated paper
from two and one-half cents per pound
and fifteen per centum ad valorem to five
cents per pound.
photographic prints from six cents per
pound to eight cents; cardboard from
twenty cents TO twenty-five cents per
pound; other paper, twenty cents to TWEEN
ty-five cents per pound, with small in
creases on various sizes of other paper.
I.ithographie cigar labels. from twenty
cents per pound to thirty cents per pound,
printed I'm oolors less than eight, from
twenty cents to thirty cents per pound,
more than eight. from thirty cents to
thirty-seven and one-half cents per pound;
printed in metal leaf. from fifty cents per
pound to fifty-two and one-half cents per
pound; paper hangings, from twenty-five
per centum 10 thirty per centum ad va
loren; paper not specially provided for,
twenty-five per centum to thirty-five per
centum ad valorem.
plain paper envelopes from twenty per
centum TO thirty per centum ad valorem.
Free Entry of Pulp
1.-THE recommendations of the select
committee were to permit the free entry
OF mechanically ground wood pulp from
any country not imposing export duty
and to reduce printing paper valued at
not above two and one-fourth cents per
pound. from three-tenths to one-tenth Of
one cent per pound; valued not above two
and one-half cents pound, from four
tenths to two-tenths Of one cent per
pound"
Section B
The reductions in duty are much more
numerous than the increases. In the
schedule on chemicals, oils and paints
they are:
B0racic acid, borax, from 1--WE cents TO
two cents per pound; reductions OF two
cents per pound are made on gallo and
tartaric acids. borate OF lime. Reductions
Of fifty per cent are made I'm the duty on
salicylic acid. chlOroform. fruit others,
oils or essences; peppermint oil. whiting
and paris white. dry; bichromate and
chro chromate OF potash and santenin.
"BOrate OF lime and other borate ma
terlal f. reduced from four cents to one
and One-hah cents per pound and from
three cents to one cent per pound accord
ing to the percentage OF anhydrous bo-
rscic acid contained.
''SuIphuric others are reduced TO eight
cents per pound; spirits Of nitrous ether
20 twenty cents per pound.
''IOdofOrm, from one dollar to seventy
five cents per pound.
Flax seed linseed and poppy seed oil
reduced to fifteen cents per gallon.
Varnishes Reduced
"Varnishes reduced from thirty-five to
twenty-five per centum ad valorem: and
spirit varnishes from one dollar and thir-
ty-twO cents per gallon and thirty-five
per eentum to twenty-five per oentum sd
valOrem.
Lead: acetate of, white. from three
and one-fourth cents to two and seven
eighths cents per pound; brown. gray or
yellow from two and one-fourth cents
20 one and seven-eighta cents per
pound: nitrate Of. from two and one-haif
cents to two and one-eighth cents per
pound; litharge, from two and three
fourths cents to two and one-fourth cents
per pound.
Potash: 'chlorate Of. from two and
one-hah cents to two cents per pound.
'Plasters, healing, etc. from thirty-five
per centum to twenty-five per centum ad
valorem.
"Hydrate of caustic soda, from three
fourths OF one cent to one-half cent per
pound; nitrate OF soda, from two and
one-half cents to two cents per pound:
hyposulphite of soda, from one-half OF
one cent per pound to thirty per centum
I'D voIorem.
'Sulphste of soda or salt cake or inter
cake. from one dollar and twenty-five
cents per ton to one dollar.
SpOnges
"sponges and manufactures OF. from
forty per centum TO thirty per centum ad
valorem.
"Strychnia or strychnine. from thirty
cents to fifteen cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimed. or flow
ers Of. from eight dollars per ton, to six