The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-08-13
Many Changes Have Been
Made in the Existing
Schedules.
VICTORY FOR PUBLISHERS.
Secure Lower Duties on Wood Pulp
Hides to Be Admitted Free
Slight Increase in Rates
on Hosiery.

as provided for by the new measure
is substantially as follows:
Beginning with a decrease in the
rate on iron ore from 40 to Is cents a
ton. there is a general reduction
throughout that part of the bill, pig
iron going down from 81 to $3.50 a ton
and scrap iron from four to one dol
lar.
Rough lumber goes down from
81 to s1.25 per 1000 feet, with cor
responding reductions in the differen-
tial on dressed lumber.
Sugar and tobacco duties remain
substantially as they are under the
Dingley law.
Structural steel, fitted for use, comes
in the basket clause at As per cent. ad
valOrem.
In the lumber schedule the only in,
creases were those on shingles, from
80 cents to so cents a thousand, and
on briar wood and laurel wood for the
use OF pipe makers, from the free list
to 10 per cent. ad valOrem. The rate
on sawed lumber was decreased from
81 a thousand to S1.25 a thousand
feet.
In other agricultural products broom
corn was taken from the free list and
made dultable at So a ton. Hops are
Increased from - to 1C cents a pound.
Cotton hosiery, valued at not more
than 81 a dozen pairs, is increased
from so to 20 cents a dc en- pairs.
that worth mona thor q ooJ Io.. Alz.
Sl.oO a dozen pairs from 60 to IS cents
a dozen pairs, that valued above s1.5O
and not above 81, from 20 to 80 cents
a dozen pairs. The remaining rates
on stockings are the same as under
the present law.
Hemp is increased from 500 to S22.5t
per on and heckle hemp. from $40
to $45 a ton.
There was a general reduction in
carpets and mats. A reduction from
20 to Is cents is made in hydraulic
hose. Oil cloth, including linoleum,
was reduced about a third.
Mechanically ground wool pulp was
exempted from duty and placed ON the
free list, with a provision for counter
va1llng duty against Canada. The
lower grade of printing paper was re-
duced from Sc to 1915 a ton and the
higher grade from IS to 1915.
Bituminous coal goes from G. to As
cents a ton and there are reductions
on gunpowder, matches ard cartrid-
ges. Agricultural Implements are cut
from 20 to 10 per cent. ad valorem.
Every corporation, Joint stock COM
pany or association organized for
profit and every insurance is
required to pay annually an excise tax
OF me per cent. upon it's entire net
over and above $1,000. It is
estimated that from $40, 900, 900 to
$4,000 900 a year will be collected un-
der this new form of federal taxation
The secretary of the treasury is
authorized to issue Panama canal
bonds to the amount of s29O,569 600
winch sum, together with that already
expended, equals the estimated cost
OF Inc Panama canal. It is not intend
ed that the bonds shall be issued ex.
ccpt as needed to provide money 70
carry on the construction. The bonds
are to be payable so years from the
CAKE OF Issue, and will bear interest
at a rate not exceeding three per cent.
hides were placed on the free list.
while the rate on hand and solo ,o,tb
or is reduced from 20 per cent. to five
per cent. ad valorem, that on dressed
leather from 20 to 10 per cent. and
boots and shoes from 25 to 10 per
cent.
Petroleum, crude and refined, in
Guiding kerosene, gasoline, naphtha.
honzlne and similar products. is made
tree Of duty and left even without a
countervailing duty.
The Dingley rates on women's and
chl!dren's gloves are allowed to stand
only change is a reduction on
"schmaschem" gloves not over IA
!N"H"s long on which the rate is made
Si.23 a dozen pairs instead of Sl.75.
The maximum and minimum provi-
l prescribes duties in accordance
with the rates named in the dutiable
list until March 81, 1910, when % per
cent. ad ValOrem is to be added auto
matlcally as the maximum duty. The
president is authorized to apply the
rates, however, to imports
from a country which gives it's best
rates to the products of the United
states Il is made the judge as to
whether a foreign country accOrds to
the United States treatment which is
and equivalent.
The president is empowered also to
abrogate reciprocity treaties which