Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1912-02-15

PROVISIONS Of
THE STEEL AND
Reductions Of From 80 to so
Per Cent Made In the
Existing Rates.
@HAIkMAN UNDERWOOD of the
ways and means committee made

THAIkMAN UNDERWOOD of the
ways and means committee made
~ public the bill revising the iron
ant steel schedules of the Payne
Aldrich tariff law. Mr.. Underwood
thinks the bill can be passed by Sat
urday, Feb. 3.
The metal schedule makes rcduc-
lions Of from 80. to so per cent on prac-
ttcally all items of the iron and steel
tariff. In addition it places on the free
list iron ore, hoop or band iron or steel,
barbed and other wire fencing. nails,
spikes, h~orseshoes, tungsten bearing
ores, zinc bearing ores, cash registers,
typesettting machines, tools, printing
presses, sewing machines, typewriters
n 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:
+ in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel-
eisen, wrought and cast scrap iron
and scrap steel, 3 per CEN ad valore1n:
ferromanganese, chrome, chromium
metal, ferrochrome or ferrochromium,
ferromolybdenum, ferrophosphorus, fer.
rotitanium. ferrotungsten, f~erroyanadi-
um, anolybdenum, titanium, tantalum.
tungsten or wolfam metal and ferro-
silicon, 10 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, &c 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 OF
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, forsings of iron or steel, or of com
bined iron and steel, but not machined.
fooled. or otherwise advanced in con
dition. Is per mi ad valorem; anti.
friction balls. ball bearings and roller
bearings, of iron or steel OF other met.
al, finished or unfinished, 25 per cent
ad valorem.
Railway bars made Of iron or steel
and railway bars made in part of steel,
T rails and punched iron or steel fat
rails, railway %ishplates 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 OF other metal with layers OF
other metal or metals imposed thereon
by forging. hammering, 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,
or 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 tin 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 valorem.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms
and slabs, by whatever process made;
die blocks o. 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-
lions 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 CEN ad valorem.
Rivet, screw. fence and other iron
or steel wire rods and nail rods. 10
per CEN 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