Show United States Supreme Court I WASHINGTON April lBThe United States supreme court today affirmed the judgments of the circuit courts of Illinois and Now York in the customs case of Seeberger collsctor of customs for Chicago Chi-cago against Farewell and others and caM cam agone collector against Edward Luck meyer regarding the proper rate of duty under the act of 1SS3 on tho importations of oolen dress goods in which a very slight amount of cotton was mixed in order tower lo to-wer the classification of the goods The tariff act of 18S3 provides that dress goods composed in part only of wool should pay a duty of 5 cents per yard and 3 percent per-cent ad valorem and where composed wholly of wool should pay 9 cents per yard and 40 per cent ad valorem Importers sos a so-s to secure a lower classification introduced intro-duced from 2 to G per cent of cotton into the warp of goods The evidence showed the cotton could note b not-e detected except on a very export inspection in-spection and that i cost as much if not i more to manufacture the goods with these I cotton threads than if made wholly of wool The collector accordingly imposed the duty under the classification for all woolen goods The lower courts held and cours this court sustaind their decision that as Congress did not make any provision as to what amount of cotton must be in the goods in order to secure the lower duty that the importers had a right to mix any quantity of cotton no matter how small in order to secure lower rates Justice Blatchford read the opinion and Justices Brown and Gray dissented The court in the case of E P Mason and others against Robertson collector held that bichromate of soda is dutiable at 25 per cent ad valorem and not at 3c per pound under the provision for bichromate of potash as held by the collector |