TARIFF .REVISION
RATES IN DETAIL
Payne Presents Bill to House
and Predicts Extinction
; of Deficit.
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LARGE REDUCTIONS MADE
Steel and Lumber Out One -naif,
Coal on Krt-e List Inheritance
Tax Created Maximum
and Minimum Rates.
WASHINGTON. March 17.-Representa-tlve
Sereno Payne, chairman of the House
ways and means committee, in introduc
es the. tariff bill, gave out the following
statement:
::"One problem that confronted the com
mittee was the question of revenue. The
business of all commercial nation's has
been decreased for nearly two years, and
thus has affected our commerce and
greatly reduced our revenues, so that we
have a large deficit, but the revenues
Under the present law are improving from
month to month as business conditions
are becoming better.
"The last normal year of imports was
ne fiscal year ending June SO. 1906- 1907
was an unusually prosperous year,' and
the revenues from customs exceeded those
.f 1908 by JS2.000.000. The committee has
therefore taken the year 1906 as the basis
to form its estimate of the revenue
producing qualities of the . new bill
bnould the next fiscal year prove pros
Ierous and the normal conditions of 1906
return on account of the large increase
or population, the revenues for 1910 would
rhow a considerable Increase over the
estimates of the committee.
Will Wipe Out Defct.
"YJ.!" a return to anything like normal
conditions during the next fiscal year it
l safe.to predict the deficit would be en
tirely wiped, out, but In case it is not, the
kill provides for the issue . of Panama
Canal bonds to reimburse the treasury
for the 40.OUO.O00 paid out In the original
purchase of the canal. This would more
than make up any probable deficiency.
1 here Is also re-enacted the provision for
the issue of certificates to run one year
to replenish the treasury, raie-ing the
mount from J1O0.O0O.O00 to $20.000.000, an
mount sufficient to provide at any time
against two or three years of depressed
business conditions."
- The statement gives the rates in the
present law, the XMngley tariff, and shows
the changes that the Payne bill proposes.
The abstract of the bill continues-
The committee has transferred some ar
ticles from the free list to the dutiable,
and has increased duties on others for
the sole purpose of Increasing the-revenue.
Most of these articles on which du-
tl ,havo bean Increased are luxuries,
which have been Increased as follows:
Perfumery, Cocoa, Spices Raised.
Perfumeries and toilet articles from 5
to 60 per centum ad valorem: fancy soap
from 15 to 30 cents per pound; chicory
root, raw (not dried), from 1 cent to
cents per pound; roasted from W to S
cents per pound.
Cocoa (crude) transferred from the free
list to the dutiable at 4 cents per pound
prepared or manufactured, inoreased 2
cents on each classification except that
valued above 36 cents per pound, which
remains the name. Ten per centum ad
valorem Is also added to the duties as
sessed on that valued between 15 and 35
cents per pound. Powdered cocoa from 5
cents to 9 cents per pound. Cocoa but
ter from Si to 5V cents per pound; dan
delion root and articles used as a substi
tute for coffee. 2V4 to 4 -cents per pound.
Spices, which are now largely on the
free list, are assessed an average duty of
30 per centum ad valorem. Feathers are
Increased from 15 per centum to 20 per
centum ad valorem, and dressed or col
ored feathers receive an increase of 10
per centum. Furs, dressed on the skin
re assessed 27 per centum ad valorem.
Raised' to Give More Protection.
"Duties on the following articles have
been increased because the committee
found that there was not sufficient pro
tection under the present law," continued
Mr. Payne:
Coal tar dyes or colors, now bearing a
duty of 80 per centum, to 35 per centum
ad valorem. Zinc In ore. now brought in
at 30 per centum ad valorem, to 1 cent
per pound for the inc contents contained
therein. Peas, split peas, from 40 cents
to 45 cents per bmchel. Figs from 2 cents
to 3H cents per pound; lemons from 1 cent
to 1U cents per pound; pineapples front J7
per 1000 to $S per 1000."
Increase on Cotton and Taper.
Increases in the cotton schedule are:
Additional duty of 1 cent per yard on
mercerised fabrics (a new process of
manufacture invented since the present
law was enacted). Also a small additional
duty on lappets. There is also an in
creased duty on stockings fashioned and
shaped wholly or in part on knitting ma
chines. Changes in the paper schedule, which
Include those recommended by the spe
cial committee on wood pulp and print
paper investigation, are:
Surface coated papers, covered with
metal, from 3 cents and 30 per centum
to 5 cents and 20 per centum ad va
lorem; other surface coated paper from
2 cents per pound and 15 per centum
ad valorem to 5 cents per pound.
Lithographic prints from 6 cents per
pound to S cents; cardboard from 20
cents to 25 cents per pound; other
paper, 20 cents to 25 cents per pound,
and with small Increases on sizes of
other paper. Lithographic cigar labels,
from 20 cents per pound to 30 cents
per pound: printed in colors less than
eight, from 20 cents to 30 cents per
pound: more than eight, from 30 cents
to 3 7 1 - renin na rriirA- .
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metal leaf, from 60 cents per pound
to 62 H cents per pound; paper hang
ings, from 25 per centum to 30 per
centum ad valorem: paper not espe
cially provided for. from 25 per centum
to 35 per centum ad valorem.
Plain paper envelopes, from 20 per
centum to 30 per centum ad valorem.
I'ree Wood Pulp Provided.
The recommendations of the select
committee were to permit the free en
try of mechanically ground wood pulp
from any country not imposing export
duty and to reduce printing paper, val
ued at not above 2i cents per pound
from .3 to .1 of 1 cent per pound, valued
not above 2H cents a pound, from .4
to -2 of 1 cent per pound.
The reductions In duty are more nu
merous than the increases. The sched
ules on chemicals, oils and paints are:
Eoracic acid, borax from 5 cents to
2 oents per pound; reductions of 2
cents per pound are made on gallio and
tartaric acids, borate of lime. Reduc
tions of 60 per cent are made in the
duty on salicyllo acid, chloroform, fruit
ethers, oils or essences; peppermint oil;
whiting and Paris white, dry blchro
matlo and chromate of potash, and san
tonin. Other material reductions contained
in the chemical schedule are:
Borate of lime and other borate ma-
MEMBERS OF HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, WHICH I
BUILT NEW
Payae, New York.
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Needbam, California.
terlal is reduced from 4 cents to 1
cents per pound and from 3 cents to 1
cent per pound, according to the per
centage of anhydrous boracic acid con
tained. Sulphur ethers are reduced to 8 cents
per pound; spirits of nitrous ether to
20 cents per pound.
Iodoform from $1 to 75 cents per
pound: flaxseed, linseed and poppyseed
oil reduced to 15 cents per gallon.
Varnishes reduced from 35 to 25 per
centum ad valorem; and spirit var
nishes from 1.32 per gallon and 35
per centum to 95 per centum ad va
lorem. Lead Acetate of, white, from S4 cents
to 2 cents per pound; brown, gray or
yellow, from 214 cents to 1 cents per
pound; nitrate of, from 2 cents to 2
cents per pound; litharge, from 2 to 24
cents per pound.
Potash Chlorate of, from 2 cents
to 2 cents per pound.
Plasters, healing, etc., from 35 per
centum to 25 per centum ad valorem.
Hydrate of, or- caustic soda, from
cent to cent per pound; nitrate of
soda, from 2 cents to 2 cents per pound;
hyposulphite of soda, from ii to 1 cent
per pound to 30 per cent ad valorem.
Sulphate of soda, or salt cake, or nitre
cake, from $1.25 per ton to Jl.
Sponges and manufactures of, from 40
per centum to 30 per centum ad valorem.
Strychnia, or strychnine, from' 30 cents
to 15 cents per ounce.
Sulphur, refined or sublime, or flow
ers of, from $8 per ton to $6 per ton.
Vanillin, from SO cents per ounce to 15
cents1 per ounce. 1
Articles in this schedule that are
placed on the free list are:
Sulphate of ammonia, copperas, licorice
and cottonseed oil and croton oil.
The statement gives the following im
portant reductions in the other sched
ules: Fire brick and other brick, if glazed
and enameled, from 45 per centum to 35
per centum ad valorem.
Plaster rock or gypsum, crude, from 60
cents to 40 cents per ton; if ground or
calcined, from J2.25 to J1.75 per ton.
Reductions on Glass.
Unpolished, cylinder, crown and com
mon window glass, above 24 by 36 inches
square, reduced half a cent per pound
on all sizes; cylinder and crown glass,
above 24 by 30. and not exceeding 24 by
60 Inches square, reduced from 15 cents
to 12 cents per square foot; sizes above
that, from 20 cents to 15 cents per square
foot.
Onyx In block, from $1.50 per cubic foot
to $1 per cubic foot.
Cast polished plate glass, silvered, ex
ceeding 24 by 36 inches, 25 cents per
square foot, which is'a reduction on most
sizes from 38 to 23 cents per square foot.
Mosaic cubes of marble, onyx or stone,
not exceeding two cubic Inches In size,
if loose, from 1 cent per pound to 'i
cent, and same ad valorem; if attached
to paper or other material, from 20 cents
to 10 cents and same ad valorem.
Free stone and other building or monu
mental stone, except marble and onyx,
unmanufactured, from II cents to 6 cents
per cubic foot.
Mica, cut or trimmed, from 12 cents
per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem;
unmanufactured from 6 cents per pound
and 20 per centum ad valorem, cut or
trimmed from 12 cents per pound and 20
per centum ad valorem; all to 30 per
centum ad valorem: mica plates or built
up mica. 35 per centum advalorem.
On marble, sawed or dressed, the re
duction is about 1-6. and the additional
duty is-reduced from 3 cents to 2 cents
per superficial foot.
Cuts on Iron and Steel.
Iron ore and basic slag, from 40 cents
per ton to the free list.
Pig Iron, iron kantledge and spiegelel
sen, from $4 per ton to $2.50.
Scrap iron and steel, from $4 per ton
to 50 cents per ton.
Bar iron, frcm .6 of 1 cent to .4 of 1
cent per pound.
Round iron, less than 7-16 of one Inch
In diameter, from .8 of 1 cent to .6 of 1
cent per pound.
Slabs, blooms, loops or other forms lees
finished than bars, from .5 of 1 cent to
.4 of 1 cent per pound.
Charcoal iron, from $12 to $6 per ton.
Beams, girders, joists, angles, etc.. from
.5 of 1 cent to .3 of 1 cent per pound.
Anchors, from lii cents per pound to 1
cent.
Iron and steel forgings. from 35 per
centum to 30 iper centum ad valorem.
Hoop, band or scroll iron and steel, not
thinner than No. 10-wire gauge, from .6
of 1 cent to .3 of 1 cent per pound; thin
ner than No. 10 and not thinner than No.
20, from .6 of 1 cent to .4 of 1 cent per
pound; thinner than No. 20, from .8 to .6
of 1 cent per pound.
Steel bands or strips, untempered, suit
able for making band saws, from 3 cents
per pound to IS cents: If tempered, from
6 cents per pound and 20 per centum ad
valorem to 3 cents per pound and 20
per centum ad valorem; cotton ties, from
.5 of 1 cent per pound to .3.
Railway bars and steel rails, from 7-20
of 1 cent per pound to 7-40; railway fish
plates, from .4 of 1 cent per pound to .2.
Iron and steel sheets, valued at 3 cents
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TARIFF BILL.
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DalielL Pennsylvania.
per pound or less, thinner than No. 10 and
not thinner than No. 20 wire gauge, from
.7 to .5 of 1 cent per pound; not thinner
than 23, from .8 to .6 of 1 cent; not thin
ner than No. 32. from 1.1 cents to .8 of
1 cent; thinner than No. 32. from 1.5 to.9
of 1 cent; corrugated or crimped, from
1.1 to .8 of 1 cent per pound.
Sheets, polished, planished or glanced,
from 2 cents to 1 cents per pound; if
pickled or leaned, .2 of 1 cent per pound
in addition.
Tin plates from 1 cents to 1.2 cents
per pound.
Steel AVlre and Rods.
Round iron or steel wire, not smaller
than No. 13-wire gauge, from IY4. cents per
pound to 1 cent; not smaller than No. 16,
from 114 cents to 1 cents per pound;
smaller than No. 16, from 2 cents to 1
cents per pound.
That all the foregoing valued at more
than 4 cents per pound shall pay not less
than 40 per centum ad valorem.
Steel bars or rods, cold rolled, cold drawn
or cold hammered, or polished, from
of 1 cent per pound In addition to the
above rates to of 1 cent per pound: on
strips, plates or on sheets of iron or steel,
other than polished, where cold rolled
and so forth, from 1 cent per pound In
addition to the rates on plates to 6 of 1
cent per pound.
Bolts, with or without threads or nuts
from 1 oents to 1 cents per pound. .'
Cast iron pipe from .4 of 1 cent to
cent. per pound.
Cast hollowws-re, coated, glazed or
tinned, from 2 cents to XA cents per
pound. "
Chains not less than three-fourths
or one inch in diameter, from 1 cents
to of a cent per pound; not less
than three-eighths of an Inch in diam
eter from 1 cents to 1 cents; not
less than five-sixteenths, from 1 to
li cents. But no chains will pay less
than 45 per centum ad valorem.
Lap welded, butt welded, steamed or
Jointed Iron or steel boiler tubes if not
less than three-eighths of an inch in
diameter, from 2 cents to 1 cents per
pound; not less than one-fourth, from 2
cents to 1H cents per pound; If Jess
than one-fourth, 2 cents per pound
welded, cylindrical furnaces, from 2
cents per pound to 2 cents per pound
all other iron or steel tubes from 35
per centum to 30 per centum ad va
lorem. Knives, Nails, Spikes.
. Table, butchering, carving and so
forth, knives with pearl, shell or ivory
handles from 16 cents each to 14 cents
each; handle of deer horn from 12
cents each to 10 cents each; with han
dles of hard rubber, bone, celluloid and
so forth, from 5 cents each to four
cents each; with other handles from
1 cents each, to 1 cent each, with the
same ad valorem addition of 15 per
centum; provided that none of the
above shall pay at a less rate than 40
per centum ad valorem. Instead of 45
In the present law. '
Files were reduced from specific rates,
PRINCIPAL TARIFF CHANGES
COCOA crude, from free list to 4c per pound; prepared or manufactured, in
creased 2c per pound up to 35c per pound valuation from sc to 35c
zrN'C IX ORB Raised from 20 per cent to lc per pound.
COTTON Mercerized fabrics, lc per yard addtional.
PAPER Wood pulp, free; printing paper valued at not over' 24 c per pound.
reduced from 3c to lc per pound; valued' at not above 2V4c per pound,
reduced from 4c to 2c per pound.
CHEMICALS Large reductions nearly all alone the line.
GLASS Window, unpolished, cylinder, crown and common,' specinc duties re
duced 20 to 25 per cent; plate. Increase of 20 to 25 per cent on small sizes,
reduction on large hlzes.
IRON AND STEEL Iron ore. free: piK iron, reduced from S4 to J2.50 per ton;
bar Iron, from 6c to 4c per pound; beams, girders, joists, angles, etc,
from 5c to 3c per pound; iron and steel forgings. from 35c to 30c per
cent ad valorem: railway bars and steel rails, from 7-0 of 1 cent to 7-40.
KNTVES General reduction, but none to pay less than 40 per Sent ad valorem
instead of 45 per cent, as at present.
WIRE NAILS 50 per cent reduction.
SAWS Mill, reduced from 10 to 8 cents per linear foot; pig and drag, from
8c to 6c; circular, from 25 to 2 per cent ad valorem; band, from 10c to 5c
per pound and 20 per cent ad valorem.
MACHINES AND ENGINES of various kinds. Including typesetting and sewing,
presses, typewriters, reduced from 46 to 30 per cent ad valorem.
LtMBER Timber, reduced from lc to c per cubic foot; sawed boards, etc.
.
rrom i to 60c per 1000 feet; all
1000 feet.
HIDES OF CATTLE From 15 per cent ad valorem to free list; band and sole
leather, from 20 to 5 per cent ad valorem: upper leather, from 20 to 45 per
cent ad valorem; fresh meats, from a to 154c per pound; boots and shoes,
from 25 to 15 per cent.
BITUMINOUS COAL AND COKE Free from any country admitting them free,
reduced from 67c per ton for coal and 20 per cent on coke.
AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS Reduced from 20 to 15 per cent and made
free from any country admitting them free.
WOOL Carpet, reduced from 4c per pound on wool worth 12c or less, and 7c
on wool worth more, to 3c on wool worth 10c or less; ic per pound ad
ditional for each additional cent of value from 10c to 16c; worth over 16c.
7c per pound. '
MAXIMUM RATES Applied to countries not making reciprocity treaties "with
the United States. 20 per cent extra.
PHILIPPINES Free trade with restrictions as to amount of sugar and tobacco
admissible: all above amounts named pay full duty.
INHERITANCE TAX Graduated scale expected to yield $20,000,000 a year.
the equivalent Jf 80 per centum ad va
lorem to 40 per centum ad valorem.
Cut nails.' spikes, from .6 of 1 cent to
5 of 1 cent per pound. .
Horseshoe nails and hob nails from
214 cents to 1 cents per pound.
Wire nails, not lighter than No. 16
wire rauge. from H of 1 cent to of
one cent per pound; lighter than No.
16, from 1 cent to H of 1 cent per
pound.
Spikes, nuts, washers and horse,
mule or ox shoes from 1 cent to of
1 cent per pound.
Cut tacks, not exceeding 16 ounces
to thousand, from Hi cents to of one
cent per thousand: exceeding 16 ounces,
from Hi cents to of one cent per
pound. " -
Steel plates, engraved and so forth,
from 25 per centum to 20 per centum
ad valorem.
Rivets, from 2 cents to 1"4 cents per
pound.
Saws Much Reduced.
Cross cut saws from 6 cents to 5
cents per foot:, mill saws from 10
cents per linear foot to 8 cents per
linear foot; pit and drag saws from 8
cents per linear foot to 6 cents per linear
foot; circular saws, from 25 per centum
ad valorem to. 20 per cent ad valorem
steel band saws from 10 cents per
..pound to 5 cents per pound and 20 per
centum ad valorem remaining; all other
saws reduced from 30 per centum to 25
per centum ad valorem.
Screws more than two Inches In
length from 4 cents to- 2 cents per
pound; over one inch and not more
than two inches, from 6 cents to 4
cents per pound; over one-half inch and
not over one inch, from cents to 6
cents per pound; one-half inch and
less, from 12 cents to 8 cents per
pound.
Wheels for railway purposes, or
parts thereof, from IV2 cents to 114
cents per pound; Ingots, blooms or
blanks for the same from 1 cents to X
cent per pound.
Aluminum In crude form, from 8
cents to - cents per pound; in plates
from 13 cents to 11 cents per pound.
Hooks and eyes, from 5V4 to 4 cents per
pound, retaining the aditional- 1 per
centum ad valorem.
Lead dross bullion, base bullion, and
lead in pits, from 2 to 1 cents per
pound; in- sheets, pipes, shot, from 24 to
1 cents per pound.
Zinc in blocks or pigs, from 1 cents
to 1 cent per pound; in sheets, from 2
cents to li4 cents per pound.
Deep Cuts on Machines.
Cash registers, electrical apparatus
and machinery, jute manufacturing ma
chinery, linotype and all typesetting ma
chines, machine tools, printing presses,
sewing machines, typewriters and all
steam engines, from 45 per centum to
30 per centum ad valorem. Embroidery
machines and lace-making machines, the
same rates, with a proviso that they
may be imported free until July 1, 1911.
Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and
slabs, valued at 1 cent per pound or less
from .3 of 1 cent per pound to 7-40
and on the other valuations the reduc
tions are .1 of 1 cent per pound, with the
exception of those valued above 7 cents
and not above 10 cents, upon which the
duty remains the same, and upon tose
valued above 30 cents per pound upon
which the duty is made 15 per centum
ad valorem.
Lumber Reduced One-Half.
Timber, from 1 cent per cubic foot to
cent per cubic foot.
Sawed boards, planks of white wood,
sycamore and bass wood, from $1 per
1000 .to 50 cents per 1000.
All other sawed lumber from $2 to $1.
If further advanced and manufactured!
the same reduction from the present
law.
Paving posts, railroad ties, telephone
poles and so forth, from 20 per centum
to 10 per centum ad valorem.
Clapboards, from $1.50 per 1000 to $1
per thousand.
Kindling wood transferred to the free
list.
Laths, from 25 cents per 1000 pieces to
20 cents per 1000 pieces.
Fence posts, from 10 per centum to the
free lists.
Grain and Animal Products.
Barley, from 30 cents per bushel to 15
cents.
Barley malt, from 45 cents to 25 cents;
cabbages, from 3 to 2 cents each; bacon
and hams, from 5 cents per pound to 4
cents; fresh meats, from 2 cents to- 1A
cents per pound; lard, from 2 cents to 1Z
cents; tallow, from of 1 cent per pound
to the free list; wool grease, from of
1 cent to quarter of 1 cent; dextrin,
burnt -starch and so forth, from 2 cents
to 1V4 cents per pound; peas, green, from
40 cents per bushel to 30c per bushel; all
starch, except potato starch, from 1 to
1 cent per pound; sugar, refined, is re
duced from 1.96 cents to 1.91 cents per
pound.
Flax and Its Products.
Flax straw, not hackled or dressed, to
the free list. -
Cables and cordage, reduced from 1
cent to of 1 cent - per pound;
threads, not finer than five lea or num
ber, reduced from 13 cents to 10 cents
per pound, with instead of of 1
cent per pounrt advance with each lea in
number in -excess of five; single yarns,
not finer than eight lea, reduced from
7 to 6 cents per pound.
Flax gillnettings from 25 to 20 per cent
um; carpets, mats and so forth, from 6
cents per square yard and 35 per centum
ad valorem to 4 cents per square yard
and 30 per centum ad valorem when valued
not above 15 cents per square yard; if
valued above 15 cents from 10 cents per
square yard and 35 per centum ad valorem
to 8 cents per square yard and 30 per
centum ad valorem. Hydraulic hose from
20 cents per pound to 15 cents per pound;
oil cloth, including linoleum, above nine
feet in width, from 20 cents per square
yard and 20 per centum ad valorem, to 12
other sawed timber, from
$3 to $1 per
MARCH 18,
1909.
COMPLETE
HOUSE
FURNISHERS
Ihowiimg New Models
io Chaldreos -Vehicles
Folding go-cart, carriage, perambulator and the new
phaeton styles shown with the best improved gear
and construction reed and wood bodies the latter
in the finest coach finish, in green, tan, French gray
and black. Upholstery, hoods and storm curtains
and aprons in leather cloth. Perambulators as
low as . . . $23.50
Our
and
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cents per square yard and 15 per cent ad
valorem; shirts, co'lars and cuffs of cot
ton, from 45 cents per dozen and 15 per
cent ad valorem to 85 cents per dozen and
10 per cent ad valorem.
Wools of the third class, known as car
pet wool, from a duty of 4 cents per
pound on such wools, worth 13 cents or
less, and a duty of 7 cents per pound upon
such wool exceeding- 12 cents in value, to
a duty of 3 cents per pound on such wool
valued at not more than 10 cents per
pound; and if valued at more than 10c
per pound, and not more than 16c per
pound, 3c per. pound, and In addition
thereto one-half of one cent per pound
for each cent per pound of additional
value exceeding 10 cents; 'If valued at
more than 16 cents, 7 cents per pound.
. Top waste and roving waste from 30
cents 'to 25 cents per pound; slubbing
waste and garnetted waste from 30c per
pound to 30c per pound.
Shoddy from 25 to 20 cents per pound;
noils and all other wastes from 20c to X&c
per pound.
Woolen rags, mungo and flocks from 10
cents per pound to 6 cents per pound:
tops from 33 cents per hundred and. 50
per cent ad valorem; when valued at not
more than 40c per pound, and 44c per
pound and 50 per cent ad valorem when
valued above 40 cents and not above 70
cents to the duty Imposed on scoured
wool and 6 cents In addition.
Hides and Coal on Free List.
Bituminous coal and coke, from any
country admitting American coal free,
from 67 cents per ton for coal and 20 per
cent ad valorem for coke'to free list;
gunpowder valued at 20c and less per
pound, from 4c per pound to 2c; valued
over 20c per pound, from 6c per pound to
4c; cartridges from 35 to 30 per centum ad
valorem: blasting caps, from an equiva
lent to 84 per centum ad valorem to 30 per
centum ad valorem; mine and blasting
fuse from 35 per centum to 25 per centum
ad valorem: hides of cattle from 15 per
cent ad valorem to free list; band and
sole leather, from 20 per cent ad valorem
to 5 per cent ad valorem; upper leather,
calf skins, chamois skins, kangaroo, sheep
and goat skins, and other leather not pro
vided for, from 20 per cent to 15 per cent
ad valorem. Patent leather weighing not
over 10 pounds per dozen skins, from 30c
per pound and 20 per centum ad valorem;
weighing over 10 pounds and not over 20
pounds per dozen from 30c per pound and
10 per centum ad valorem; weighing over
25 pounds, from 20c per dozen and 20c per
pound and 10 per centum ad valorem, all
to 20 per centum ad valorem; piano forte
leather, from 35 percentum ad valorem to
20 per centum ad valorem; boots and shoes
from 25 per centum ad valorem to 15 per
centum ad valorem: shoe laces from 50
jcents per gross and 20 per centum ad va
lorem to 16 per centum ad valorem;
leather cut Into shoe uppers and so forth,
25 to 30 per cent ad valorem; all other
manufacturers of leather from 35 per
centum ad valorem to 30 per centum adva
lorem. Agricultural implements, plows, from
20 per centum ad valorem to 15 per cent
ad valorem, and further provision to free
list from any country admitting Amer
ican, agricultural machinery free.
Works of art, including paintings and
statuary, more than 30 years, old, from
20 per cent to the free list.
The rate applied to these gloves Is $4
per dozen pairs and 35 cents in addition
per dozen pair for each Inch over 14.
Some of the higher increases under va
rious schedules are:
Plate Glass Rate Increased.
Cast polished plate glass, Increased
from 8 cents to 10 cents per square foot
on sizes not exceeding 16 by 24 square
Inches, and on those above that and not
exceeding 24 by 30 inches from 10 cents to
12 cents per square foot; all above that
22 cents per square foot, which is a re
duction on nearly all of these larger
sizes.
One of the most Important of the mis
cellaneous provisions of the bill is that
providing for the method of valuation,
which Mr. Payne explains as follows:
"The bill adds a new paragraph to sec
tion eleven of the customs administrative
act, which provides for the appraisement
of goods Imported by consignment and
not by sale where there Is no market
price at the place of the origin of the
goods. After re-enacting the present pro
j fr ojiarter-sawed topirawers and mirror frame $22.50 j
INCORPORATED
En the Waist,
SHOWING THE NEWEST AND
PRETTIEST STYLES IN WAISTS
The ' Lingerie styles very dainty effects small
tucks trimmed with Valenciennes lace insertion
dainty hand-embroidered square medallions and
the small pleated sleeves S2.95 to $7.5Q
The new linen "Peter Pan" ladies' and misses'
shirts with pockets
All-linen "Peter Pan" waists, with tucked fronts
and "Peter Pan" collars in small dots $2.95
Imported waists hand-embroidered from Brus
sels just received... $17.5Q to 850.00
(drooim Fosroitoire
the Mediom Grade
selections represent the best
finish that is made in the medium grade. Wide range j
oi styies in uressers and Uniiloniers affords every op-por-tunity
for pleasing selection. Bases are well built up and
shown with plain and serpentine fronts. Colonial Dresser
buna oaK, goiaen imisn, similar to illustration, with
visions to ascertain the value the bill
adds this paragraph:
" "The actual market value or whole
sale price, as designed by law, of any
imported merchandise wlilch 19 consigned
for sale In the United States or which is
not actually sold or freely offered for sale
in usual wholesale quantities In the open
market of the country of exportation to
all purchasers, shall not In any case be
appraised at less than the wholesale price
at which such or similar imported mer
chandise is actually sold and freely of
fered for sale In usual wholesale quanti
ties In the United States in the open
market to all purchasers, due allowance
by deduction being made for estimated
duties thereon, for cost of transportation,
Insurance and other necessary expenses
from the place of shipment to the place
of delivery and a reasonable commission
not exceeding 10 per centum, if any. of
the same has been paid."
'It will be seen that this provision Is
only applied to consigned goods and not
to those actually sold for Importation."
Maximum Rates 20 Per Cent Higher
The following explanation of the form
of the bill was made by Mr. Payne:
"The new tariff bill is a minimum
and maximum tariff bill. The mini
mum rates of duty are contained in
the first section, and the free list for
the minimum rates is in the second
section of the bill. The third section
contains the maximum rates, which are
generally equal to the minimum rates
and 20 per cent In addition thereto, and
the articles on the free list, in the
transfer to the third section, bear a
duty of 20 per centum ad valorem as a
maximum rate. The maximum rate
does not go Into effect In any event
until 60 davs after the passage of the
act. By the fourth section the mini
mum rates are applied to all goods im
ported from any country which gives
the United States as good terms
by way of tariff as that given to any
other nation and the maximum rates
are applied to those countries which
discriminate against the trade of the
United States or fail to give the United
States tariff rights as favorable as
those given any other nation. This
section is self-acting, making it the
duty of the executive to collect the
duties, whether minimum or maximum,
in accordance with the terms of the
bill, leaving it open to the courts to
decide upon the legality of the action."
Give Philippines Free Trade.
Regarding the miscellaneous provis
ions of the bilL Mr. Payne states:
"The bill provides for reciprocal free
trade with the Philippine Islands on
all articles, but limiting the sugar to
be imported free of duty to 300,000
tons; wrapper tobacco to 600,000 pounds
and 6.000.000 pounds of filler tobacco,
and 150.000,000 cigars in any one fiscal
year. The excess of sugar, tobacco and
cigars to pay full . tariff rates. This
exemption from duty is confined to
the growth of products of the Islands,
however, and does not admit articles
imported into the Philippine Islands
from a foreign country without pay
ment of full rates of duty on such im
portations. "A section is added applying the
same rules to patents "obtained in the
United States by aliens that are adopt
ed by the country of whicfc these aliens
are citizens in respect to patents is
sued there to citizens of the United
States. This will either compel for
eigners obtaining patents from the
United States to build factories and
manufacture here for our trade or
eventually forfeit the right to their
patents.
"A section is Inserted preserving the
Cuban reciprocity provisions of the
present law.
"Provision is made to terminate vari
ous commercial agreements with for
eign countries according to the terms
of said agreements by notice, and in
the meantime keeping faith in those
agreements. The provisions of section
4, applying the minimum and maximum
rates, will take the place of these sec
tions. "The estimated revenue under the
tariff duties prescribed in the bill
amount to about $300,000,000.
"The bill provides for a tax on trans
fers of property, both real and per
sonal, by inheritance or succession and
WOMEN'S, MISSES
AND CHILDREN'S
WEARING APPAREL
and stiff cuffs.
$3.50
in design. workrnPm5hir.
by will. It is believed that this pro
vision when in full operation will bring
in a revenue of 20,000.000. altUough
n.-CUrats es"mates can be made
?n cisarettes la increased
nne,WelShins over tnree Pounds per
1000 from $3 to 13.50. and those weigh
ing less, from 1 to 1.50.
"The committee has examined thor
oughly all th ... ... '
, - . j L mc gen
eral appraisers of the last 15 years
. f.Ci.UIS lu, meaning or the lan
guage Of th tariff law. i i .
nun nets iramca
the language of the various paragraphs
:r r .r v"';' unions, it is hoped
that it will nrovon .... -
and -will in the future give the courts
a clear understanding of the intention
. K lne DUI contains a care-
rully prepared section (section 29) ex
tending the privileges of drawback, on
material Imported on which tariff has
, .. . piuuuciB or winch.
are manufactured in this country when
19 oenevea mat this sec
tion c rof i ill- B-iitiFil. i, .
-- . v.. a iccnue8 ana
at the same time liberalizes the pro-
' mu win stimulate our export
- r-- me Dm snail go
Into effect the day following Its en
actment." Wrestling Tonight.
Multnomah Athletic Club vs. Wash
ington State College at the M. A. A
C. Gymnasium, at $:30 sharp. Seven,
fast matches. Admission Rnr..
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I would long since have
been in my grave. I was
past work could not walk
up-hill without .coughing
very hard."
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written by Mr. G. W. Hower
ton, Clark's Gap, W. Va. We
would like to send you a full
copy of his letter, or you
might write him direct. His
case was really marvelous,
but is only one of the many
proofs that
Scott's
Emulsion
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this paper.
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409 Pearl Street No
rYork