The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-04-08

Sheet steel or iron, now Sc to SIS, cut
to 20 per cent
Tin plate, now $24 ton, cut to 20 pei
cent.
Shotguns and rifles. now 1925 to SIC
each, changed to 80 per cent.
Table and kitchenware, from 40 to 81
per cent.
Steam engines, printing presses, ma
chine tools, from 80 to Is per cent
Embroidering and lace making ma
chimes, now free, made dutible at rs pei
cent.
Blanket Clause
The schedule carries a blanket clause
that articles or wares not specially pro-
vided for shall pay so per cent If wholly
or partly of platinum, gold or silver, and
20 per cent If wholly or in chief value
composed of iron, steel, lead, copper
nickel, pewter, zinc, aluminium or other
metal.
Tableware, pen knives and watcf
movements are required to bear the
names of the manufacturer and country
of origin.
Lead bearing ore from IL cents pound
to "a cent.
Aluminium from cents a pound to :,
per cent.
Anthony from / cent a pound to 10 pei
cent.
Lead bullion from 21s cents a pound tc
25 per cent.
Nickel pigs from cents pound to II
per cent
Chemicals, oils and points:
Alkalies and compounds from Is per cent
ad valorem to 10 per cent.
Alum, ETC., from II cent per pound tc
Is per cent ad valorem.
Bleaching powder from 1-5 cent to Ill
cent per pound.
Fruit oils and essences from 81 pound to
20 per cent ad valorem.
Flax seed and linse3d oil from Is cents
gallon to u cents.
Cod seal and whale oil from cents
gallon to cents.
Crude opium from 81 so pound to 49,
Prepared opium from 81 pound to 81
Ocher and ocher earths, present rates
range from " cent to ss cent pound; pro.
posed rate 5 per cent ad valorem.
Orange mineral from 81 cents pound tc
% per cent.
Zinc oxide from cent pound to II
per cent.
Paints, colors, etc., from 30 per cent tc
Is per cent
White lead from cents pound to % per
cent
sponges from 20 per cent to 10 per cent
silk goods:
Chiffons, clothing ready made, articles
Iof wearing apparel Of every description
including knit goods, from so per cent
to 90 per cent ad valorem.
Woven fabrics from 30 per cent to A
per cent ad valorem.
Beltings, cords, tasseIs. ribbons of ar
tificial and imitation silk or horse hair
from As cents per pound and GO per cent
ad valorem addition TO 60 per cent ad
valorem.
Lumber and wood:
yeneers from 20 to 10 per cent.
Osier or willow for basket makers use
from Is per cent to 10 per cent.
Willow furniture from 70 to 10 per cent.
Sugar:
Reduces Basic Rate
The sugar schedule eliminates the duties
standard of color and reduces the basic
rate on sugar testing by the polariscope
not above 10 degrees from 96-100ths of
cent per pound to 71-100ths of / cent per
pound.
For each additional degree shown by the
polariscopic test the additional rate Is re-
duced from 35-10O0ths of l cent per pound
to 26-10O0ths of l cent per pound.
The other items in the cane sugar Sec
ton are changed as follows:
Molasses testing not above 40 degrees
from 20 to 10 per cent ad valorem; test
ing above 40 and not about Sc degrees,
from 8 cents to ~ cents per gallon; test
ing above 56 degrees, from cents to AZ
cents per gallon. At the end of the Sec
ton the following clause is added:
provided that three years after the day
when this act shall take effect, the ar
ticles hereinbefore enumerated in this par
agraph shall thereafter be admitted free
of duty.
Other reductions are
Maple sugar and refined syrups from
A to cents per pound.
Glucose or grape sugar from ~ to IA
cents per pound.
manufactured sugar dome from 20 to
Is per cent.
section on the free list after three years
is also included
Sugar candy valued at .15 cents per
round or less from 4 cents a pound and
K per cent ad valorem to 2 cents per
Mound; valued at more than 15 cents per
hound from 80 to Is per cent.
cuban sugars by treaty arrangements
come in at 20 per cent reduction from the
regular duties.
But a single change was made in the
tobacco schedule
Scrap tobacco was taken from general
c,a ssification at rate of So cents per
Mound and given an Individual classifica-
tion at IS cents pound.
FLAX. hemp and jute:
Flax, hacked, from to IN cents per
pound.
Hemp and tow of hemp from l cent to
a cent per pound.
Hemp. hacked. from 2 to l cent per
pound