Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 May 1900 — PORTO RICAN TARIFF [ARTICLE]

PORTO RICAN TARIFF

NOMINAL DUTIES COLLECTED ON LEADING ARTICLES Those of General Consumption Subject to Very Low Tariff Rate—Free Liat of Dingley Law Applies to Porto Rico Except as to Coffee. The following are the rates of duty which will be collected under the new law on the more Important articles entering Porto Rico from the United States: Flour, free of duty. Corn, 2>4 cents per bushel. Bacon, free of duty. Corn meal, 3 cents per bushel. Rice, free of duty. Oatmeal, 1% cents per bushel. Oats, 214 cents per bushel. Pork, free of duty. Dried apples, 1 pound valued at 6 cents, 3 mills. "" Codfish, free of duty. Brooms, valued at $1.20 per dozen, on each broom, 6 mills. Mutton, free of duty. Candles, on 1 pound valued at 5 cents, 1% mills. Fresh beef, free of duty. - Coal, bituminous, per ton, 10 cents. Coopers’ wares and wood, cut, for making casks tor sugar or molasses, free of duty. -Cotton cloth, unbleached — On 1 yard valued at 8 cents, 3 mills. On 1 yard valued at 10 cents, 4 mills. “— ——r On 1 yard valued at 12 cents, fl mills. Shirting cloth, on 1 yard valued al 12% cents, 6 mills.

Bags for sugar, free of duty. Machinery for making and refining sugar, free of, duty. Wire, Nos. 13-16, per pound, 2 2-10 mills. Plows, free of duty. Nails, cut. per pound. 9-10 of 1 mill. Hoes, free of duty. Wire nails, per pound. 1% mills. Machetes, free of duty. Steel bars, per pound, 9-10 of 1 mIU. Agricultural implements, not machinery, free of duty. Boots and shoes, on 1 pair valued at sl, 3 7-10 cents. Hatchets, free of duty. India rubber boots and shoes, on 1 pair valued at 50 cents, 2% cents. Cotton thread, on each dozen spools of 200 yards, valued at 26 cents, 18-10 cents. Clocks, valued at sl, 6 cents. Rough lumber, free of duty. Carpets, jalued at 35 cents per yard, on each yard 2 6-10 cents. Modern school furniture, free of duty. Dried herring, per pound, 1 mill. Writing paper, on each pound valued at 17 cents, 8 mills. Lard, on each pound valued at 6 cents, 3 mills. ’ Butter, on each pound valued at 14 cents, 9 mills. Soap, on each pound valued at 10 cents. 3 mills. Lime, free of duty. Beans, per bushel, 6 7-10 cents. Household furniture, on each dollar** value, 5 2-10 cents. Harness and saddlery, on each dollar’s vhlue, 6 7-10 cents. Earthenware, common, on each dollar's value, 3 7-10 cents. China, whtle, on each dollar’s value, 8 2-10 cents. Glassware, common, on each dollar’s value. G 7 10 cents. In addition to this, the entire free list of the Dingley law applies to Porto Rico, except as to coffee, on which the Porto Rican act levies a special duty in the interest of the coffee growers of the island. Running Loose. The Hon. Claude Duval, who is running for Congress in one of the Kans** districts, is, as his name would Indi* cate, an earnest advocate of a Loom currency. 4C