Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-19
MEN TARIFF BILL
BEFORE CONGRESS-
Continued from Page Two.

chimes. machine tools. printing presses.
sewing machines. typewriters and ali
steam engines. from torty-five per centum
/ TO thirty per centum ad valorem. En-
broideTy machines and lacemaking ma
chimes. the same rate. with a proviso that
they may be imported free until July !.
1911
steel ingots. copper ingots blooms and
slabs. valued at one cent per pound or
less. from -three-tenths OF one per cent
per pound to seven fortieths
and on the other valuations the reductions
, are one-tenth Of a cent per pound, with
the exception OF those valued above seven
cents and not above ten cents. upon
upon which the duty remains the same;
and upon those valued above thirty cents
per pound upon which the duty is made
fifteen per centm ad valOrem.
'Gunpowder valued at twenty cents
and less. per pound from four cents per
pound 10 two cents; valued oyer twenty
cents per pound. from six cents per
pound to four cents.
Cartridges, from thirty-five to thirty
per centum ad valorem blasting caps.
from 'an equivalent to eighty-four per
centum ad valOrem to thirty per centum
ad valOrem: mine and blasting fuse. from
thirty-five per centum to twenty-five per
centum ad valorem
Hides of Cattle
Hides OF cattle from fifteen per CEN
tum ad valorem to free list. Band and
sole leather. from twenty per centum ad
vaIorem to five per centum ad valorem.
Upper leather. calf skins. channels skins.
| kangaroo. sheep and goat skins, and 9TH
er leather not provided for. from twenty
per centum TO fifteen per centum ad va
loren. Patent leather. weighing not
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thirty cents per pound and twenty per
centum ad valorem. weighing over ten
pounds and not over twenty-five pounds
per dozen, from thirty cents per pound
and ten per centum ad valorem; weigh
] ing over twenty-five pounds, from TWEEN
~ cents per dozen and twenty cents per
pound and ten per centum advalorem, all
TO twenty per centum ad valorem; piano
forte leather, from thifty-five per CEN
tum ad valorem to twenty per centum
ad valorem; boots and shoes. from twen-
ty-five per centum ad valorem TO fifteen
per centum ad valOrem; shoe laces from
fifty cents per gross. and twenty per
centum ad valorem TO fifteen per CEN
tum ad valorem; leather cut into shoe
uppers, and so forth. from thirty-five
TO thirty per centum ad valorem; all 9TH
er manufactures of leather, from thirty
five per ceutum ad valorem, to thirty
per centum ad valorem.
agricultural implements, plows, from
twenty per centum ad valorem to fifteen
per centum ad valorem and further pro-
vision TO free list from any country ad-
hitting American agricultural machinery
free.
Paintings
Works Of art, including paintings and
statuary, more than twenty years old.
from twenty per centum to the free list
The articles mentioned in the remain
ing paragraphs are rated. substantially
az the same duty as under the present
law:
THE duties on women's and children's
gloves, not over fourteen inches in
length are considerably Increased on
fSchmaschen'; 'glace' of sheep origin;
'glace' other than sheep origin; with
exterior grain surface removed and kid
of otter leather than of sheep skin The
rate applied to these gloves is four dol
lars per dozen pair and thirty-five cents
in addition per dozen pair for each inch
over fourteen"
Some further increase under various
schedules:
Cast polished plate glass, increased
from eight cents to ten cents per square
foot on sizes not exceeding sixteen by
twenty-four square inches and on those
above that, and not exceeding twenty
four by thirty inches, from ten cents to
twelve and one-half cents per square