The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1909-08-14

are put on the free list by the pro-
vision
Bituminous coal is reduced from g.
cents per ton to As cents. and there
is also a reduction on gunpowder.
matches and cartridges. Agricultural
implements go OF from 20 per cent.
ad valorem to Is 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 rs
per cent. ad valorem to five cents per
pound
Manufactures OF collodion. increased
nve per cent.
Coca leaves increased i've cents per
pound.
Fancy soaps increased from Is cents
per pound to so per centum ad va
loren
The list Of decreases in this sched-
ule was much longer, the principal
items being as follows:
Boracic acid from i've to two cents
per pound.
Chronic acid and Tactic acid from
three to two cents per pound.
Salicylic acid from ten to seven
cents per pound.
Tannic acid, or tannin. from SO to
35 cents per pound.
Sulphate of ammonia from three
tenths cent per pound to free list
Bora1 from i've to two cents per
pound
Borate Of lime and other borate ma
terial from four to two cents per
pound.
Chloroform from 20 to 10 cents per
pound.
Copperas. from one-fourth cent to If
teen hundredths Of one cent per
pound
Iodoform from Il 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
F1axseed, 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
11a to one cent per pound.
Varnishes from 35 per cent to 25
per cent. ad valorem.
Methylated and spirit yarnfshes
from 31.32 per gallon and S5 per cent
ed valorem to 35 cents per gallon and
35 per cent. ad valorem; white lead.
acetate of lead, and a number of other
lead products. from one-fourth to one
eighth of a cent . pound.
Bichromate and chromate of potash
from three to 2A 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 IL cents per pound.
Hydrate Of, or caustic soda, from
three-fourths to one-half Of one cent
per pound; nitrate of soda from 2lz
to two cents per pound.
Sulphate of soda. or salt cake, or
miter cake, from s1.25 to 81 per ton.
Strychnia, or strychnine, from 80 to
Is cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublimated, or
flowers of, from ss 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
so to 30 cents per ton; If ground or
caIcined. from S225 to $1.25.
Unpublished, cylinder, crown and
common window glass, smaller glass
and cheaper values, reduced one-eighth
of a cent per pound.
Onyx in block, from 81 so per cubic
foot to 65 cents per cubic foot
Duty Lowered on MaFpIe.
Marble. sawed or dressed. over two
inches in thickness, from $1.10 to 81
per cubic foot, with other reductions
on the entire marble paragraph and
on other stone.
There is q general reduction in mica
to 80 per cent. ad valorem. There
was before a mixed specific and ad
~alorem system.
Structural steel, fitted for use. falls
in the basket clause At Is per cent ad
valorem.
There also IL an increase on raxors.
and upon nippers and pliers.
Lithograhpic plates are increased
from Is to 50 per cent ad valorem.
Chrome metal. ferrosilicon, tungsten,
and other new metals used in the