SODA. 64. Bicarbonate of soda or supercarbonate of soda or saleratus, one- 65. Hydrate of, or caustic soda, one-half of one cent per pound. 68. Silicate of soda, or other alkaline silicate, three-eighths of one 69. Sponges, sea moss or Iceland moss, ten per centum ad valorem. 70. Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, thirty cents per ounce. 71. Sulphur, refined, sublimed, or flowers of, twenty per centum ad valorem. 72. Sumac, ground, ten per centum ad valorem. 73. Tartar, cream of, and patent tartar, twenty per centum ad valorem. 74. Tartars and lees crystals, partly refined,.twenty per centum ad valorem. 75. Tartrate of soda and potassa, or Rochelle salts, two cents per pound. SCHEDULE B.-EARTHS, EARTHENWARE, AND GLASSWARE. 76. Brick, not glazed, enameled, ornamented, or decorated in any 78. Tiles, plain, not glazed, ornamented, painted, enameled, vitrified, CEMENT, LIME, AND PLASTER: 81. Plaster of Paris, or gypsum, ground, one dollar per ton; cal- CLAYS OR EARTHS: 82. Clays or earths, unwrought or unmanufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, one dollar per ton; wrought or manufactured, not specially provided for in this Act, two dollars per ton; china clay or kaolin, two dollars per ton. Earthenware and EARTHENWARE AND CHINA: china. 83. Common yellow and brown earthenware, plain or embossed, 84. China, porcelain, parian, bisque, earthen, stone and crockery ware, rem. Earths, earthen. 86. All articles composed of earthen or mineral substances, including SCHEDULE B. lava tips for burners, not specially provided for in this Act, if ware, and glasswaredecorated in any manner, forty per centum ad valorem; if not decorated, thirty per centum ad valorem. 87. Gas retorts, twenty per centum ad valorem. GLASS AND GLASSWARE: Continued. Glass and glassware 88. Green and colored, molded, or pressed, and flint and lime glass Proviso. Proviso. Packing window 92. Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, two and one-half cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, four cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, fifteen cents per square foot; above that, twenty cents per square foot. 93. Fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, not including crown, cylinder, or common window glass, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, three-fourths of one cent per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, one cent per square foot; all above that, one and one-half cents per square foot; and all fluted, rolled, or rough plate glass, weighing over one hundred pounds per one hundred square feet, shall pay an additional duty on the excess at the same rates herein imposed: Provided, That all of the above plate Ground, etc., glass. glass when ground, smoothed, or otherwise obscured, shall be subject to the same rate of duty as cast polished plate glass unsilvered. 94. Cast polished plate glass, finished or unfinished and unsilvered, not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, five cents STAT-VOL XXVIII--33 Proviso. SCHEDULE B. Earths, earthenware, and glasswareContinued. Minimum. Marble, etc. Stone. per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by thirty inches square, eight cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twentytwo and one-half cents per square foot; all above that, thirtyfive cents per square foot. 95. Cast polished plate glass, silvered, and looking-glass plates, exceeding in size one hundred and forty-four square inches, and not exceeding sixteen by twenty-four inches square, six cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twentyfour by thirty inches square, ten cents per square foot; above that, and not exceeding twenty-four by sixty inches square, twenty-three cents per square foot; all above that, thirtyeight cents per square foot. 96. But no looking-glass plates or plate glass, silvered, when framed, shall pay a less rate of duty than that imposed upon similar glass of like description not framed, but shall pay in addition thereto upon such frames the rate of duty applicable thereto when imported separate. 97. Cast polished plate glass, silvered or unsilvered, and cylinder, crown, or common window glass, when bent, ground, obscured, frosted, sanded, enameled, beveled, etched, embossed, engraved, flashed, stained, colored, painted, or otherwise ornamented or decorated, shall be subject to a duty of ten per centum ad valorem in addition to the rates otherwise chargeable thereon. 98. Spectacles eyeglasses, goggles, opera glasses, and other optical instruments and frames for the same, forty per centum ad valorem. 99. Glass beads, loose, strung, or carded, ten per centum ad valorem. 100. Lenses of glass or pebble, wholly or partly manufactured, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem. 101. Fusible enamel, and glass slides for magic lanterns, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. 102. All stained or painted glass windows, or parts thereof, and all mirrors not exceeding in size one hundred and forty-four square inches, with or without frames or cases, and all manufactures of glass, or of which glass is the component of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, thirty-five per centum ad valorem. MARBLE AND STONE, AND MANUFACTURES OF: 104. Marble, sawed, dressed or otherwise, including marble slabs, 105. Manufactures of marble, onyx, or alabaster not specially provided for in this Act, forty-five per centum ad valorem. STONE: 106. Freestone, granite, sandstone, limestone, and other building or 107. Grindstones, finished or unfinished, ten per centum ad valorem. SLATE: SCHEDULE B. Earths, earthen 108. Slates, slate chimney pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all ware, and glassware other manufactures of slate not specially provided for in this Act, twenty per centum ad valorem. 109. Roofing slates, twenty per centum ad valorem. SCHEDULE C.-METALS AND MANUFACTURES OF. IRON AND STEEL. 109. Iron ore, including manganiferous iron ore, also the dross or residuum from burnt pyrites, forty cents per ton. 110. Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegeleisen, ferro-manganese, ferro-silicon, wrought and cast scrap iron, and scrap steel, four dollars per ton; but nothing shall be deemed scrap iron or scrap steel except waste or refuse iron or steel fit only to be remanufactured. 111. Round iron, in coils or rods, less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter, and bars or shapes of rolled iron, not specially provided for in this Act, eight-tenths of one cent per pound: Provided, That all iron in slabs, blooms, loops, or other forms less finished than iron in bars, and more advanced than pig iron, except castings, shall be subject to a duty or five tenths of one cent per pound: Provided further, That all iron bars, blooms, billets, or sizes or shapes of any kind, in the manufacture of which charcoal is used as fuel, shall be subject to a duty of twelve dollars per ton. 112. Bar iron, rolled or hammered, comprising flats not less than one inch wide nor less than three-eighths of one inch thick, six-tenths of one cent per pound; round iron not less than three-fourths of one inch in diameter, and square iron not less than three fourths of one inch square, six-tenths of one cent per pound; flats less than one inch wide, or less than three-eighths of one inch thick; round iron less than threefourths of one inch and not less than seven-sixteenths of one inch in diameter; and square iron less than three-fourths of one inch square, six-tenths of one cent per pound. Continued. SCHEDULE C. Metals and manufactures of. Iron and steel. Ore. Pig iron, etc. Round iron, etc. Provisos. Charcoal iron. Bar iron, etc. 113. Beams, girders, joists, angles, channels, car-truck channels, Structural iron. TT, columns and posts or parts or sections of columns and posts, deck and bulb beams, and building forms together with all other structural shapes of iron or steel, whether plain or punched, or fitted for use, sixtenths of one cent per pound. 114. Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw plates hereinafter provided for, not thinner than number ten wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skelp iron or steel sheared or rolled in grooves, valued at one cent per pound or less, five-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one cent and not above one and one-half cents, six-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and one-half cents and not above four cents per pound, thirty per centum ad valorem; valued at over four cents per pound, twenty-five per centum ad valorem: Provided, That all plate iron or steel thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay duty as iron or steel sheets. Plate iron, etc. Proviso. Sheets. Proviso. 115. Forgings of iron or steel, or forged iron or steel combined, of forgings. whatever shape, or in whatever stage of manufacture, not specially provided for in this Act, one and one-half cents per pound: Provided, That no forgings of iron or steel, or forgings of iron and steel combined, by whatever process made, shall pay a less rate of duty than thirty-five per centum ad valorem. 116. Hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, except as otherwise provided for in this Act, thirty per centum ad valorem. 117. Railway bars, made of iron or steel, and railway bars made in part of steel, Trails, and punched iron or steel flat rails, seven-twentieths of one cent per pound. Hoop, etc. Post, p. 539. Railway bars, etc. SCHEDULE C. Metals and manufactnres of-Continued. Sheet iron or steel. Proviso. Plates. etc. Galvanized sheets,, Polished sheets, etc. etc. 118. Sheets of iron or steel, common or black, including all iron or steel commercially known as common or black taggers iron or steel, and skelp iron or steel, valued at three cents per pound or less, thinner than number ten and not thinner than number twenty wire gauge, seven-tenths of one cent per pound; thinner than number twenty wire gauge and not thinuer than number twenty-five wire gauge, eighttenths cent per pound; thinner than number twenty-five wire gauge, one and one-tenth cents per pound; corrugated or crimped, one and onetenth cents per pound: Provided, That all common or black sheet iron or sheet steel not thinner than number ten wire gauge shall pay duty as plate iron or plate steel. 119. All iron or steel sheets or plates, and all hoop, band or scroll iron or steel, excepting what are known commercially as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, and hereinafter provided for, when galvanized or coated with zinc or spelter, or other metals, or any alloy of those metals, shall pay one-fourth of one cent per pound more duty than the rates imposed by the preceding paragraph upon the corresponding gauges or forms of common or black sheet or taggers tron or steel. 120. Sheet iron or sheet steel, polished, planished, or glanced, by whatever name designated, one and three-fourths cents per pound: Provided, Cleaned, cold rolled, That plate or sheet or taggers iron or steel, by whatever name desig nated, other than the polished, planished, or glanced herein provided for, which has been pickled or cleaned by acid, or by any other material or process, or which is cold-rolled, smoothed only, not polished, shall pay one-eighth of one cent per pound more duty than the corresponding gauges of common or black sheet or taggers iron or steel. Tin plates. 121. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated with tin or lead, or with a mixture of which these metals, or either of them, is a component part, by the dipping or any other process, and commercially known as tin plates, terne plates, and taggers tin, one and one-fifth cents per pound: Provided, That the reduction of duty herein In effect October 1, provided for shall take effect on and after October first, eighteen hun Proviso. 1894. Minimum rates. Steel ingots, etc. dred and ninety-four. No article not specially provided for in this Act, wholly or partly manufactured from tin plate, terne plate, or the sheet, or plate iron or steel herein provided for, or of which such tin plate, terne plate, sheet, or plate iron or steel shall be the material of chief value, shall pay a lower rate of duty than that imposed on the tin plate, terne plate, or sheet, or plate iron or steel from which it is made, or of which it shall be the component thereof of chief value. 122. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms, and slabs, by whatever process made; die blocks or blanks; billets and bars and tapered or beveled bars; steamer, crank, and other shafts; shafting; wrist or crank pins; connecting rods and piston rods; pressed, sheared, or stamped shapes; saw plates, wholly or partially manufactured; hammer molds or swaged steel; gun-barrel molds not in bars; alloys used as substitutes for steel in the manufacture of tools; all descriptions and shapes of dry sand, loam, or iron-molded steel castings; sheets and plates not specially provided for in this Act; and steel in all forms and shapes not specially provided for in this Act, all of the above valued at one cent per pound or less, three-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one cent and not above one and four-tenths cents per pound, four-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and four-tenths cents and not above one and eight-tenths cents per pound, six-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above one and eighttenths cents and not above two and two-tenths cents per pound, seventenths of one cent per pound; valued above two and two-tenthis cents and not above three cents per pound, nine-tenths of one cent per pound; valued above three cents per pound and not above four cents per pound, one and two-tenths cents per pound; valued above four cents and not above seven cents per pound, one and three-tenths cents per pound; valued above seven cents and not above ten cents per |