The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1909-08-05

free Of duty instead Of paying one.
twelfth Of . cent . pound as under
the Dingley law, but provision 10
made for countervailing duty in
case 1t becomes necessary to protect
this country against Canada's inhibi-
tons upon the expectation of woods
to the United States.
Hides Of cattle come In free and
there Is a corresponding reduction on
leather and leather goods. The free
hide provision Is based on the condi-
ton that on and after October l.,
1909, sole leather from the hides that
are to be admitted free will pay
duty OF five per cent; grain, bun and
split leather 7R per cent; boots and
shoes, the upper leather of which Is
made from such hides, 10 per cent.
cent. This schedule of rates will re-
suit in reduction Of 10 per cent. on
boots and shoes, 20 per cent. on har-
ness and saddlery, 10 per cent. on sole
leather and 121a per cent. on leather
for uppers, If made of the hides that
are put on the free list by the pro-
| vision.
Bituminous coal is reduced from 81
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 10 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 its products come in under
| the same terms.
Increases in the chemical schedules
are as follows:
Liquid anhydrous ammonia, from 25
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
lorem
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 laotic acid from
three to two cents per pound.
Salicylic acid from ten to seven
cents per pound.
Tannic acid, or tannin, from 50 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
pound
Chloroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound.
Copperas from one-fourth cent to fif-
teen bundredths of one cent per
pound.
Iodoform from 81 to IS cents per
pound.
Licorice from Az to ~ 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 lumber
earths, II ground in oil or water, from
~ to one cent per pound.
Varnishes from 35 per cent. to rs
per cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes
from 1892 per gallon and IS per cent.
ad valorem to 35 cents per gallon and
35 per cent. ad valorem; white lead,
acetate of lead, and number of other
lead products, from one-fourth to one
eighth of a cent pound.
Bichromate and chromate Of potash
from three to ~ cents per pound.
Chlorate of potash from 21a 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 ~ cents per pound.
| Hydrate Of, or 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, 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
plate glass. The decreases in this
schedule include:
Fire brick, glazed, enameled. and SO
forth, from As per cent. to 35 per cent.
ad valorem; brick, other than fire
brick, II glazed, from As per cent. to
35 per cent ad valorem.
Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, from
30 to 80 cents per ton; IL ground or
calcined, from 1925 to $125.