Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-09-29

conferees were compelled to return to
the free list bananas, upon which the
Senate had placed a duty. The Sen
ate kept free OF duty pig iron. burlap.
ferromanganese. steel ingots. barbed
wire, cattle, sheep, wheat, flour. eggs,
flax, hemp, furs and fur skins un-
dressed. Photographic and moving pic
ture films, sensitized but unexposed.
What the Report Shows.
The conference report shows the fol-
lowing agreements and the rates Of taxa
| ton upon all the principal items which
We're subject to conference.
Gallo acid. cents q pound.
Oxalic acid. ia cents a pound.
Pyrogallic acid, IL cents a pound
Tannic acid and tannin. 3 cents a
pound.
Alizarin dyes, free list.
Compounds Of caffein. rs per cent.
Calomel and other mercurial prepara-
tons, 10 per cent.
Acetanilid. 25 per cent
Dead and creoSOte oil, free list.
Anthracene and anthracene oil, free list
Collodion and all other liquid solutions
of pyroxylin or Of cellulose. 10 per cent
Compounds Of. ETC., including celluloid
% per cent
Compounds Of IL polished. finished or
partly finished, etc, 40 per cent.
Chicle, crude, 10 cents a pound.
Chicle, refined, 20 cents q pound.
Oils, expressed. alizarin assistants. etc,
% per cent.
Flaxseed and linseed OIL raw, boiled or
oxidized. 10 cents a gallon.
Olive oil not specially provided for, 20
cents a gallon.
cent.
Zinc, oxide Of. and pigments containing
zinc, but not more than per cent of
lead. ground dry. 10 per cent; ground In
oil. ETC.. Is per cent.
ChlOrate of potash, n cent pound.
Cyanide of potash, free list.
Perfumed toilet soaps. 80 per cent.
Medicinal soaps, 20 per cent.
CASTLE soap and unperfumed toilet
soaps 10 per cent.
Cyanide of soda, free list.
No article classified as Others shall
be dutiable under that paragraph that
contains more than 10 per cent Of alcohol
Cements on Free List.
Roman, Portland and other hydraulic
cement. free list.
Limestone rock asphalt, free list.
Mica. higher grades. a rate slightly in
excess of existing law.
Manufactures Of carbon not specially
provided for. % per cent
partly manufactured; ground and pol
ished strips for gauges and magic lam
tern slides, 25 per cent.
Opera and field glasses, optical instru-
ments and frames and mountings, 35
per cent.
Surveying instruments. telescopes. mi
croscopes. Photographic and projection
lenses, mountings. etc., 25 per cent.
Pig iron, iron kentledge spiegeleisen
wrought and cast iron and scrap STEEL
free list.
Ferromanganese. free list
All iron slabs, blooms, loops, etc, less
finished than in bars and more advanced
than pig. except castings, free list
Bar iron, square, rolled or hammered; !;
ally provided for. per cent
Beams. girders. joists and other struc-
tural iron. and all other structural
shapes of iron or steel. assembled or
manufactured, 10 per cent.
Boiler or other plate iron or steel,
sheets Of iron or steel. plain. corrugated
or crimpled. including crucible plate
steel and saw plates. II per cent.
Iron or steel anchors or parts, forgings
of iron or steel, but not otherwise In
| condition subsequent to forging, IL per
cent.
Hoop. band or scroll iron or steel not
otherwise provided for including barrel
hoops of iron or steel, 10 per cent.
Iron or steel sheets plates or strips
etc. when galvanized or coated with
cluding tin plates etc, and tin plated
coated with metal, and metal sheets
| decorated in colors etc. Is per cent.
No Tax on Ingots.
Steel ingots. cogged ingots, blooms and
slabs. die blocks or blanks, and billets.
free list.
| Steel bars, mill shafting. pressed, etc,
shapes not advanced beyond stamping
nodded steel. steel castings, etc. all II
made by open-hearth process If not con-
tanning certain alloys named. 3 per cent,
All the foregoing when made by the
Icrucibie, electric or concentration process.
either with or without alloys and all
steels by whatever process made. con-
| tanning alloys. 10 per cent
| Steel wool or steel shavings, 20 per cent
Grit, shot and sand by whatever name
known. mace or iron or steel, that can
be used as abraSives, 80 per cent
Round iron or steel wire, covered with
cotton, silk or other material: corset
steels. etc: fat wires and steel strips
provided for in paragraph 116; telegraph
telephone and other wires and cables
etc, Is per cent.
Wire heddles and healds, 25 per cent.
Wire rope. 80 per cent.
| Finished automobiles valued at ~ OOO q,
over and automobile bodies, 45 per cent
4 Finished automobiles valued at less
than $1,000 finished parts of automo.
biles, not including tires 30 per cent.
Bicycles. motor cycles and finished parts
not including tires, 25 per cent
Nuts or nut blanks and washers, 5 pei
cent.
Bolts Of iron or steel. 10 per cent.
Spiral nut locks and lock washers n,
iron or steel, 80 per cent.
Card clothing not permanently fitted
to carding machines or parts at time oI
importation, when made with round OF
untempered steel wire. 10 per cent.
Card clothing. when made with tenn.
pered round steel wire. etc. 81 per cent
Cast-Iron Pipe Free.
Cast iron pipe of every description
10 per centum.
Sprocket and machine chains % ne,
cent
Files. file blanks, etc. OF all cuts anc
kinds, Is per cent.
Hand-cut files and files of precision. 2,
per cent
Needles Of various kinds, needle books
etc, 20 per cent.
The prohibition of the importation a,
feathers Is declared to be not appiica bIs
to artificial flies used for fishing.
Halftone plates. photogravure plates
photo-engraved plates, 25 per cent.
Railway wheels or parts thereof. 20 ne,
cent.
Steel ingots, blooms. slabs. etc. free I,st
Aluminium In crude form, cents :
pound.
! Aluminium in plates. sheets. bars. etc.
3a cents pound.
Anthony. 10 per cent.
Anthony ore. free list.
Bronze powder, brocades, filters ant
metallics. 25 per centum.
Bronze, or Dutch metal, or aluninuu,
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