The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-01
reductions of From 80 to so
Per Cent Made In the
:. Existing Rates.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 9

Aldrich tariff law. Mr.. TJnderwood
thinks the bill can be passed by Sat-
urday, Feb. 3.
line metal schedule makes reduc-
lions of from 80 to so per cent OH prac-
t1cally all items of the iron and steel
tarlH. IN addition it places on the free
list iron ore, hoop, or band iron or steel,
'Safbed and other wire fencing nails,
spikes, horseshoes, tungsten bearing
ores, zinc bearing ores, cash registers,
typesettting machines, tools, printing
presses, sewing machines, typewriters
and tar. and oil spreading machines
used in road maintenance.
The following rates of duty are i'm
posed by the bill on various classes of
iron and steel products:
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel-
eisen, wrought and cast scrap iron
and scrap steel, 3 per cent ad valorem:
ferromanganese, chrome, chromium
metal, ferrochrome or ferrochromium,
ferromolybdenum, ferrophosphorus, fer
rotltanium, ferrotungsten, ferrovanadi-
um, anolybdenum, titanium, tantalum,
tungsten or welfam metal and ferro-
silicon, Is per cent ad valorem.
All iron in slabs, blooms. loops or
other forms less finished than iron in
bars and more advanced than pig iron,
except castings; muck bars, bar iron,
square iron, rolled or hammered, round
iron, in coils or rods, bars or shapes Of
rolled or hammered iron not specially
provided for, 10 per cent ad valorem.
Beams, girders, joists, angles, chan
nels, car truck channels, columns and
posts or parts or sections of columns
and posts, deck and bulb beams and
building forms, together with all other
structural shapes Of iron or steel,
whether plain, punched or fitted for
use or whether assembled or manufac-
tured, Is per cent ad valorem.
Boiler or other plate iron or steel, 20
per cent ad valorem; sheets of iron or
steel, including crucible plate steel or
SOW plates, and kelp iron or steel, Is
per cent ad valorem
Anchors or Parts.
Iron or steel anchors or parts there
of, forgings of iron or steel, or Of COM
bined iron and steel, but not machined,
fooled, OF otherwise advanced in con-
dition. Is per. cent. ad yaiorem; anti
friction balls, ball bearings and roller
bearings, of iron or steel OF other met
al, finished or unfinished, Is per cent
ad yalorem.
Railway bars made of iron or steel
and railway bars made in part of steel,
II rails and punched iron or steel fat
rails, railway fishplates or splice bars
made Of iron or steel, 10 per cent ad
valOrem.
All iron or steel sheets. plates or
strips and all hoop, band or scroll iron
or steel when galvanized or coated
with zinc. spelter or other metals, or
any alloy of those metals; sheets or
plates composed Of iron, steel, copper.
nickel or other metal with layers of
other metal or metals imposed thereon
by forging, hanlmering, rolling or weld
ing: sheets Of iron or steel. polished,
planished or glanced, by whatever
name designated, including such as
have been picked or cleaned by acid,
OF by any other material or process of
which are cold rolled, smoothed only.
not polished and such as are cold
hammered, blued, frightened, temper
ed or polished by any process to such
perfected surface finish or polish bet
ter than the grade of cold rolled,
smoothed only, and sheets or plates of
iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel,
coated with till or lead, or with a mix
ture of which these metals, or either
of them, is a component part, by the
dipping or any other process and COM
mercially known as tin plates, tern
plates and taggers, iron, 20 per cent
ad valoren.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms
and slabs, by whatever process made;
die blocks Or blanks, billets and bars
and tapered or beveled bars; mill
shafting, pressed, sheared or stamped
shapes, not advanced in value or con-
dition; gun barrel molds not in bars;
alloys used as substitutes for steel in
the manufacture of tools; all descrip-
tons and shapes of dry sand, loan or
iron nodded steel castings; sheets and
plates and steel not specially provided
. for, 10 per cent ad valorem.
Grit shot or sand made Of iron or
steel that can be used as abrasives,
20 per cent ad valOrem.
Rivet, screw, fence and other iron
or steel wire rods and nail rods, 10
per cent ad valorem.
All round iron or steel rods smaller
than No. 6 wire gauge shall be classed
and dutiable as wire. No article
made from or composed Of wire shall
pay a less rate of duty than 20 per
cent ad valorem.
Fence Wire Free.
Barbed and all other fence wire and
wire fencing shall be exempt from
duty; telegraph, telephone and other
wires and cables composed of metal,
rubber and other materials. 20 per
cent ad valorem: wire heddles or
healds 25 per cent
Round iron or steel wire, all wire
ofs