Mountain Home maverick. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1906-1911, 1909-08-05

changes we're made in the chemical
schedule there was a general de-
crease. except upon such articles as
fancy soaps and perfumes. which
were increased.
Probably the most marked reduc-
tons throughout any schedule in the
two houses and of the conference com
mittee are found in the metal sched-
ule Beginning with a decrease in the
rate of iron ore from 40 to Is cents
per ton, there is a general reduction
throughout that portion of the bill,
pig iron going down from "a to $3.50
per ton. and scrap iron from "a to ST.
The reduction on many of the items in
this schedule amounts to about so per
cent, and this reduction includes
steel rails.
Other reductions In the metal SEIZED
ule affect polished sheets, rolled
sheets Of iron, steel, copper, or nickel,
steel ingots. cogged ingots, blooms
and slabs; round iron or steel wire;
steel bars or rods, cold rolled, cold
drawn. or cold hammered. or pol
ished; anvils axles; blacksmith's
hammers and sledges track tools,
wedges and crowbars bolts; cast iron
pipes; cast hollow ware chains: lap
welded or jointed iron or steel boier
tubes cut nails and spikes; horse
shoe nails; wire nails; spikes, nuts
and washers; cut ltacks: steel plates
engraved; rivets; cross-cut saws, mill
saws, circular saws, pit and drag
saws, steel band saws and all other
saws; screws; wheels for railway pur-
poses; aluminium; momazite sand and
thorite
Bituminous coal goes down from 81
cents to 40 cents per ton, and there
are reductions on gunpowder, matches
and cartridges Agricultural nipple
ments are cut from 20 to Is per cent.
ad valorem.
Hides were placed on the free list,
while the rate on band and sole leath-
er is reduced from 20 per cent. to
five per cent. ad valorem, on dressed
leather from 20 per cent. to 10 per
cent; boots and shoes from % per
cent to 10 per cent.
Fireworks are increased from 20
per cent advalorem to 70 cents per
pound; wearing apparel made of fur
from SO to so per cent, and the higher
class jewerly from 60 per cent. to SO
per cent ad valorem; pencil lead is
given specific rates instead of ad va
loren rates with a slight increase.
For the first time moving picture
films are named specifically in a tar
if law The bill gives them a positive
rate of Y cents per foot.
Petroleum. crude and refined, in
Guiding kerosene. gasoline, naphtha,
benzine and similar petroleum pro-
ducts are made free of duty and are
left even without a countervailing
duty
The Dngley rates on women's and
children's gloves are allowed to stand
1he only change is Reduction on
4schmasdhen" gloves not over IA
inches IN length on which the rate is
made s125 a dozen pairs instead Of
s175
Miscellaneous Provisions.
A provision is included in the bill
which levies on all articles upon
which any foreign country pays
bounty or grant upon its expectation.
an additional duty equal to the
amount of such bounty.
1t is required that all imported ar
ticles capable Of being marked with
out impairment of their value shall be
stamped with the name of the manu-
facturer and the country of origin.
A very elaborate provision for the
administration of the customs laws
was adopted by the conferees. 1t is
practically the same as that adopted
by the senate. 1t is intended to pre-
vent naturalization of articles on
which there is no foreign market by
which true values may be ascer-
tanned
Provision is made for the estab-
lishment OF a customs court of APP
peals with headquarters in Washing
ton 1t will comprise a presiding
judge and four associate judges. at
salaries OF $4,000 a year There are
to be appointed to conduct govern
ment cases before this court a special
assistant attorney general at $4,000.
a deputy assistant attorney general at
$500. and four attorneys at $4,000
each
The internal revenue tax on tobacco
is amended making the rates on chew
ing and smoking tobacco eight cents
a pound No change was made in
the tax on cigars. except those weigh.
ing under three pounds per 1000.
which were increased from "a to rs
cents per 1000 The rates on cigar
cites were Increased to $125 per
1000 A prohibition against the use
of coupons or special gift pledges is
incorporated in the new law
The provision granting farmers the
free sale of leaf tobacco places a
restriction on the retail dealer which
requires him to record every sale
amounting to two pounds or more to
one person in one day. A number of
other ironclad requirements are in
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