The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1921-06-30
REPUBLICAN CAUCUS TONIGHT.
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drawn. was cut to pieces by the commit
tee which finally needed the appeal of
Republicans to have finished lumber kept
on the free list. Shingles. however, were
taxed in the lumber schedule, but many
other items were not.
Following are q number of items af-
fected by the proposed new law:
Agricultural Products.
Cattle less than two years old. one
cent per pound; two years and over, IA
cents a pound, Underwood, free. Fresh
beef and veal two cents, sheep and goats.
one cent, fresh mutton 114 cents; fresh
lambs, two cents; swine, one-half of one
cent; fresh pork, three -fourths of one
cent; bacon and ham, ia cents; lard,
one cent: compounds and substitutes, %
per cent, Underwood free
Fresh milk, one cent a gallon; evap-
GRATED milk, sweetened, IL cents, I'm
|derwood, free.
Butter, eight cents, Underwood, 21a
cents; cheese, five cents, Underwood 20
per cent.
Live poultry, two cents a pound. I'm
derwood, one cent.
Eggs, six cents dozen, Underwood.
free; dried eggs, 10 cents a pound, I'm
derwood 10 cents.
than $3.50, $50 head, Underwood, 10
per cent.
Honey, 21a cents gallon.
Fresh fish, one cent a pound, Under
wood, free: prepared salmon, % per cent,
Underwood free.
Barley, Is cents bushel. Underwood,
same; buckwheat, 30c. hundred pounds,
Underwood, free; corn, 10 cents bushel.
Underwood, free; macaroni. IL cents
a pound, Underwood, one cent rice, two
cents a pound. Underwood one cent rye.
10 cents a bushel; wheat, % cents a
buShel; wheat flour and products, 80
cents a hundred pounds; bran and by
products. A1.50 ton; cereals, breakfast
foods, II per cent, all free in the Under
wood act.
Apples, % cents bushel, Underwood,
Flaxseed, % cents a bushel, Under
wood, 20 cents; dried beans. IL cents a
pound, Underwood, free. Dried peas, a.
cents hundred pounds, Underwood. 10
cents a bushel; onions, - cents a hun
dred pounds, Underwood. 20 cents a
bushel: Irish potatoes, ~ cents a hun
dred, Underwood, free; tomatoes, raw,
one cent pound. Underwood, free.
Sugar and AIolasses.
Sugar. tank bottoms, syrups of cane
juice, molasses, testing not above 10 sugar
degrees and all mixtures of sugar and
water, /. 10 cents pound and OF of per
sugar degree: Underwood IL cent of
pound and .026 for each additional sugar
degree; mOlasses and syrups testing not
above As per cent, l cent a gallon, Under
wood, not above 40 degrees. II per cent.
Maple sugar and syrup, 4 cents pound,
Underwood, free: sugar cane, 81 a ton,
Underwood, IL per cent : sugar candies
80 per cent, Underwood, - per cent.
Free List.
Important items which remain on the
free list include: Agricultural nipple.
ments. anti-toxins. serums. vaccines. un
manufactured asbestos. cotton bagging
Bibles, binding Irvine, borax. bullion (goid
or silver, crude chalk, crude bristles
cash registers, typewriters. sewing ma
chimes, shoe machinery. coal (from coun
tries which impose no tariff on American
coaD, cocoa, coffee, copper ore, corkwood
cotton and cotton waste, vegetable dy,
or tanning materials, palm leaf fans
grasses and fbers, guano, gums and resins
gunpOwder, hides. India rubber. iron ore
ivory tusks, manufactured let. nj
leather not specially provided for an,
including boots, shoes, harness and sad
dlery.
Wood pulp mechanically ground. chem
ical, unbleached or bleached, hand SEWN,