Omaha daily bee., 1909-03-18

Of % per centum To Is per centum ad val
osem. zinc In ore. now brought In a. 90
per centum sd yaiorem, TO I cent per
pound for the zinc contents contained
therein,
Peas, split peas. from 20 cents to 5
cents per bushel; figs. from 2 cents to pa
cents per pound; lemons. from ! cent to
y. cents per pound; pineapples. from 81
per thousand to s. per thousand"
Increases in the cotton schedule are
An additional duty Of ! cent per yard
on mercerized fabrics "a new process Of
manufacture invented since the present
law was enacted).
Also a small additional duty on lappe:s.
There is also an increased duty on stock
ings fashioned and shaped wholly or in
part on knitting machines
Changes In Paper Schedule.
Changes in the paper schedule. which in
clude those recommended by the special
committee on wood pulp and print paper
Investigation. are:
"Surface-coated papers. covered with
metal, from 3 cents and % per centum 10
5 cents and 20 per centum ad vslorem;
other surface-coated paper from "a cents
per pound and 10 per centum ad valorem
to 5 cents per pound.
photographic prints. from 6 cents per
pound to s cents; cardboard. from % cents
to Is cents per pound; other paper, 20 cents
to Is cents per pound, with small increases
on various sizes OF other paper; litho-
graphic cigar labels, from 20 cents per
pound to 30 cents per pound; printed in
cohprs less than eight, from % cents to 20
cents per pound; more than eight. from
% cents to S7h cents per pound; printed in
metal leaf, from 50 cents per pound to 521z
cents per pound; paper hangings. from 70
percentum ad valorem; paper not specially
provided for, from Is percentum to IS per
centum ad vslorem.
PLAIN paper envelopes, from % percen-
tum to 30 percentum ad valorem.
The recommendation of the select COM
mittee we're 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
"a cents per pound, from $40 TO 1-1O Of l
cent per pound; valued not above ~ cents
a pound, from 40 to 2-10 of l per cent per
pound
Most Changes Reductions
THE reductions in duty are much more
numerous than the increases. In the
schedule on chemicals, oils and paints
they are.
"Boracic ACID. borsx from 5 cents 20 2
cents per pound. reductions of 2 cents per
pound are made on gallo and tartsric
acids. borate of lime. Reductions of 50
per cent are made in the duty on ~salicylic
acid, chloroform, fruit others, oils or es-
sences, peppermint oil; whiting and paris
white, dry: bichromate and chromate Of
potash and santonin."
Other material reductions made In the
chemical schedule are:
"Borate Of lime and ether borate ma
terial IL reduced from 4 cents to III cents
per pound and from s cents to / cent per
pound. according TO the percentage OF
snhydrous borscic acid contained.
'sulphurlc others are reduced to 8 cents
per pound, spirits OF nitrous ether to 20
cents per pound.
"Iodoform. from 81 to % cents per pound
F1axseed. linseed and poppy seed oil, re-
duced to Is cents per gallon.
"Varnishes, reduced from IS to Is per
cent sd valorem. and spirit varnishes from
S1.S2 per gallon and IS per cent to rs per
cent al valorem.
Compounds Of Lead.
Lead. acetate OF, white. from 81 cents
to rs cents per pound; brown, gray or
yellow, from pa cents to rs cents per
pound; nitrate Of, from ~ cents to 2ls
cents per pound; lithsrge, from 2% cents
to IN cents per pound.
Potash, chlorate Of. from 2k cents to 2
certs per pound.
'tPiasters, healing, etc. from 81 per cent
to rs per cent ad valorem.
'Hydrate OF, or caustic soda, from u
cent to II cent per pound; nitrate Of soda,
from 2k cents to . certs per pound; hypo-
sulphite or soda. from n cent per pound to
30 per cent al valorem.
"sulphate Of soda, or salt cake, or inter
cake, from E.@ per ton to 81.
"sponges and manufactures of, from 40
per cent TO 30 per cent ad valorem.
"strychnia. or strychDine. from 50 cents
to 10 cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimed. OF flow
ers Of. from S per ton to s. per ton.
"VanilIin. from 50 cents per ounce to 10
cents per ounce"
Articles in this schedule placed on the
free list are:
Sulphste of Ammonia. copperas, licorice,
and cottonseed oil and croton oil.
Earths and Earthware.
Continuing. the statement gives the fol-
lowing important reductions in the other
schedules:
Schedule on earths and ea~rthenWare.
Fire brick and other brick il glazed and
enameled from IS per centum to IS per
centum ad valorem.
Plaster rock or gypsum. crude, from %
cents to 40 cents per ton; II ground or cal
clned, from 81 70 to s1.B per ton.
, unpublished, cylinder, crown and COM
mon window glass above 24XSs inches
? square, reduced Il OF I cent pei
/ pound on all sizes; cylinder and crown
glass: above 24xSO and not exceeding 24x6(
inches square, reduced from 10 cents to L
cents per square foot sizes above that from
r % cents TO Is cents per square foot.
9 Onyx in block, from $50 per cubic foo
TO 81 per cubic foot. Cast polished plate
= glass silvered. exceeding 24xO inches, 2
! cents per square foot, which is a reduction
4 on most sizes from IS cents TO Is cents pei
quare foot.
q Mosaic cubes OF marble onyx stone, no
. exceeding two cubic inches in size If loos'
9 from l cent per pound to u cent and sam'
ad vaIorem IL attached TO paper or othel
a material from % cents to 10 cents and az
: Valorem.
''Freestone, and other building or monu
mental stone, except marble and onyx, un
manufactured from IL cents to 6 cents pel