Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1909-07-31
CcNFEREES RETURN TAR -.
F4~ IFF BILL TO THE HOUSE
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then the decreases. The figures in al
cases were comparisons with the Ding
lev law. In Schedule A, relating tc
chemicals he gave the increases as fol-
lows:
LIQUID anhydrous ammonia from q
per cent ad valorem to cents pei
pound.
Manufactures Of collection increased
5 per cent.
Coca leaves Increased cents pei
pound.
Fancy soaps increased from Is cents
per pound to 80 per cent. ad valorem.
The list of decreases in this schedule
was much longer, the principal items
being as follows:
!. Boracic acid from to cents per
pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from 3
to 2 cents per pound.
. Salicylic acid from 10 to 5 cents per
pound.
Tannic acid or tannin from 80 to IS
cents per pound.
Sulphate of ammonia, from 3-10ths
cent per pound to free list.
Borax, from to cents per pound.
Borate of lime and other borate mate
rial from to 2 cents per pound.
~ .Cbieroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound.
Copperas from u cent to 15-1OOths of
1 cent per pound ..
Copperas from fourth cent to
fifteen hundreths of one cent per
pound.
Iodoform from 81 to rs cents per
pound.
Licorice from AZ to 2Hz cents per
pound
Cottonseed oil and crotton oil from
the, dutiable to the free list.
Flaxseed. linseed and poppyseed oil
from 20 to Is cents per gallon.
= Peppermint oil from 50 to Is cents
per gallon.
ocher and ochery earths, sienna and
sienna earths. and lumber and lumber
earths. if ground in oil or water from
IL to one cent per pound.
Varnishs from IS per cent. to % per
cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit varnishes from
$1.33 per gallon and 35 per cent. ad Va
loren to 81 cents per gallon.
w Hdt ledu, acetate OI Iedu anu Il
number of other lead products from
one-fourth to ore-eighth of a cent a
pound.
Bi-chromate and chromate of pot
ash. from three to IN 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 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 125 to
81 per ton.
Strychnia or strychnine, from 80 to
IL cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimed, or flow
ers of, from So to Sc per ton.
In earthern ware and glassware
there is but one increase, according to
Mr.. Payne's figures. This is slight and
is made on the smaller sizes of plate
glass. The decreases on this schedule
includes:
Fire brick. glazed. enameled etc.
from 45 per cent to 50 per cent. ad va
lorem brick. other than fire brick, if
glazed, from As per cent to IS per cent.
al valorem.
Plaster rock, or gypsum, crude, from
30 to 30 cents per ton; if ground or
calcined. from 1925 to $1.25.
~ Unpublished, cylinder. crown and COM
mon window glass. smaller glass and
cheaper values. reduced one-eighth of
q cent per pound
Onyx in block, from ST. so per cubic
foot to % cents per cubic foot.
Marble, sawed or dressed. over two
inches in thickness. from $11O to 81
per cubic foot. with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and on
other stone.
There Is general reduction in mica
to 30 per cent ad valorem There wa,
before mixed specific and ad valorem
system
Structural steel. fitted for use. falls
In the basket clause at As per cent al
valorem
There also is an increase on razo-s
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithographic plates are increased
from 25 to so per cent ad valorem.
Chrome metal, ferrosiliccn tungsten.
and other new metals used in the
manufacture of steels are made duti-
able at not more than IS per cent ad
valorem. Tungsten ore is made duti-
able at 10 per cent.
The duty on watches was readjusted
remaining at about the same as the
Dingley law
A duty of one cent. per pound was
put upon the zinc in the ore where 1t
contains more than 20 per cent of zin,
On zinc with less than 20 per cent
there is a lower rate of duty. Zinc
now has duty Of 20 per cent.
s There was an added duty of one half
Of one cent per pound upon plain bot
tie caps and on decorated hottie cans