Evening star., 1911-08-11
Many Articles Reduced.

Important articles upon which the pres
ent duties of both countries are to be re-
duced and which are to be admitted from
one country to the other at the same re-
duced rates are:
Fresh meats, excepting game, IL cents
per pound; bacon and hams, not in tins
or jars, ~ cents per pound; meats of all
kinds, dried, smoked, salted, in brine or
prepared or preserved in any manner
not otherwise herein provided for. IA
cents per pound: canned meats and can
tract of meat, fluid or not, 20 per cent ad
valorem; lard, and compounds thereof,
cottolene and cotton stearine. and animal
stearine, " cents per pound: tallow, 40
cents per 100 pounds: egg yolk, egg albu-
men and blood albumen. 7ia per cent ad
valorem: fish Except sheIlfsh) by what
ever name known, packed In oil, in tin
boxes or cans, including the weight of
the package: (a) when weighing over
| twenty ounces and not over thirty-six
ounces, each, cents per package: (b)
| when weighing over twelve ounces and
| not over twenty ounces, each, 4 cents
| per PACKAGE. (c) when weighing twelve
ounces each or less. > cents per package:
(d) when weighing thirty-six ounces each
or more. or when packed in oil, in bot
| ties. jars or kegs, 30 per cent ad va
loren; tomatoes and other vegetables, in
Guiding corn, in cans or other air-tight
packages, and including the weight of
the package, IL cents per pound: wheat
barrel of 196 pounds, 80 cents; oatmeal
and rolled oats, including the weight of
paper covering. so cents per 100 pounds;
cornmeal, 12ls cents per 100 pounds:
barley malt. As cents per 100
pounds: barley. pot. pearied and
patent, one-half cent per pound;
buckheat flour or meal one-han cent per
pound; split peas. dried, ~ cents per
bushel of sixty pounds; prepared cereal
foods, not otherwise provided for herein,
liz per cent ad valorem: bran. middlings
and other offals of grain used for animal
food, per 100 pounds, 12ls cents; maca-
roni and vermicelli, l cent per pound;
biscuits. waters and cakes, when sweet
other material. 25 per cent ad valorem !;
biscuits, waters. cakes and other baked
articles composed in whole or in part OF
eggs or any kind of flour or meal when
combined with chocolate. nuts. fruits or
confectionery: also candied peel. candied
popcorn. candied nuts. candied fruits
sugar candy and confectionery Of all
kinds, :21a per cent ad valorem: maple
sugar and maple sirup. ! cent per pound !:
pickles, including picked nuts; sauces of
per cent ad valorem; cherry juice and
prune juice, or prune wine. and other
fruit juices and fruit sirup. non-alcoholic.
171s per cent ad valorem; mineral waters
and limitations of natural mineral waters,
in bottles or jugs. liz per cent ad va
loren; essential oils, TX per cent ad va
loren; grape vines. gooseberry, raspberry
and currant bushes, liz per cent ad va
loren: farm wagons and finished parts
thereof, 221e per cent ad valorem: plows,
tooth and disc harrows. harvesters. reap
ers agricultural drills and planters. NOW
ers. horse rakes. cultivators. thrashing
machines, including windstackers. bag
gers, weighers and self-feeders therefor
and finished parts thereof imported for
repair of the foregoing, 10 per cent ad
valorem: portable engines with boilers.
in combination. horse powers and traction
engines, for farm purposes; hay leaders,
potato diggers, fodder or feed cutters,
grain crushers. tanning mills, hay ted
derS, farm or field rollers. manure spread
ers weeders and windmills, and finished
parts thereof imported for repair of the
foregoing, except shafting. 20 per cent
ad valorem: grindstones OF sandstone, not
mounted. finished or not. per 100 pounds.
; cents: freeStone, granite. sandstone,
limestone and all other monumental or
building stone, except marble, braccha
and onyx. manufactured. or not
dressed, hewn or polished, 121a per cent
ad valorem: roofing states, 81 cents per
100 square feet.
Vitrified paving blocks. not ornamented
or decorated in any manner, and paving
blocks of stone. f11s per cent ad valorem;
oxide of iron, as a color, 221a per cent
du FdIoTciH doDcStoS iuI tlCl IHdHutdS-
tured than ground; manufactures of as
bestos, or articles of which asbestos is
the component material OF chief value, in
cluding woven fabrics wholly or in chief
value of asbestos, 22k per cent ad
printing ink. 17ls per cent ad
cutlery, plated or not. viz,
pocket knives. pen knives, scissors and
shears. knives and forks for household
purposes, and table steels, 271s per cent
ad valorem: bells and gongs; brass cor
ners and rules for printers, 271a per cent
ad valorem: basins and other plumbing
fixtures for bathrooms and lavatories:
sinks and laundry tubs, of
stone, cement or clay, or
of other material. 321a per cen. ad va
lorem: brass band instruments. 22. per
cent ad valorem: clocks, watches, time
recorders. clock and watch keys. clock
cases and clock movements 27k per cent
ad valorem: printers wooden cases and
cabinets for holding type, 27. per cent
ad valorem: wood -four. 223x per cent ad
canoes and small boats of wood,
not power boats. 22k per cent ad valorem;
crude. not dressed, colored or
otherwise manufactured. 125a per cent ad
antiseptic surgical dressings,
such as absorbent cotton. cotton wool,
lint, lambs wool, tow. jute, GAUGES and
prepared for use as surgical
dressings. plain or medicated: surgical
trusses, pessaries and suspensory banda
ges of all kinds. 17h per cent ad valorem:
plate glass. not beveled. in sheets or
panes exceeding seven square feet each,
and not exceeding twenty-five square
feet each, 25 per cent ad valorcm: motor