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Show i EMERGENCY TARIFF BILL The following are the twenty-eight articles covered by the emergency tariff bill which was passed by the lest session of congress and vetoed by President Wilson. It was passed for the benefit of our farmers and provided for duties as follows: 1. Wheat 35c per bushel. 2. Wheat flour and semolina, 20 per centum ad valorem, 3. Flaxseed, 30 cents per bushel -of fifty-six pounds. 4. Corn of maize, 15 cents per bushel of fifty-six pounds. 5. Beans, provided for in paragraph para-graph 197 of the Act entitled "An Act to reduce Tariff duties and to nrovide revenue for the Government and for other purposes." approved October 3, 1913, 2 cents per. pound. 6. Peanuts or ground beans, 3c per pound. 7. Potatoes, 25 cents per bushel of sixty pounds. 8. Onions, 40 cents per bushel of fifty-seven pounds. 9. Rice cleaned, 2 cents per lb, except ex-cept rice cleaned for use in the manufacture man-ufacture of canned foods on which the rate of duty shall be 1 cent per pound; uncleaned rice, or rice free of the outer hull and still having the inner cuticle on 1 3-4 cents per lb; rice flour and rice meal, and rice broken which will pass through a number twelve wire sieve of a kind prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, one-fourth of 1 cent per pound; paddy, or rice having the outer hull on, three-fourths of 1 cent per pound. 10. Lemons, 2 cents per pound. 11. Oils; Peanut, 2G cents per gallon; gal-lon; cottonseed, coconut, and soda bean, 20 cents per gallon; olive, 40 cents per gallon in bulk, 50 cents per gallon in containers of less than five gallons. 12. Cattle; 30 per centum ad va7 lorem. 13. Sheep. One year old or over, $2 per head; less than one year old, $1 per head. 14. Fresh or frozen beef, mutton lamb, and pork, 2 cents per pound. Meats of all kinds, prepared or preserved, pre-served, not specially provided for herein. 25 per centum ad valorem. 15. That cattle and sheep and other oth-er stock imported for breeding purposes pur-poses shall be admitted free of duty. in. Cotton having a staple of one and three-eighths inches or more in length. 7 cents per pound. 17. Manufacturers of cotton 7 cts. per pound. Tn addition to the rates of duty imposed thereon by existing law. IS. Wool, including hair of the camel: Unwashed, 15 cents per lb; washed. 3 0 cents per pound; scoured 45 cents per pound. 19. Manufacturesr of wool 45c a pound in addition to the duty now in force by existing laws. 20. Sugar testing 75 degrees. 1.16 cents per pound and 04c per pound or every degree above 75. 21. Butter and substitutes there- for. 6 cents per pound. 22. Cheese, and substitutes therefor. there-for. 23 per centum ad valorem. i 23. Milk, fresh. 2 cents per gallon; cream. 5 cents per gallon. 24. Milk, preserved or condensed,, or sterelized by heating or other processes, including weight of lm-' mediate coverings. 2 cents per pound; sugar of milk, 5 cents per pound. 25. Filler tobacco 35 to 50 cents; per pound. Wrapper tobacco $2.35 to ?3.00 per pound. 26. Apples, 30 cents per bushel, j 27. Cherries in a raw state, pre-j served in brine or otherwise, 3 cents per pound. 28. Olives, in solution, 25 cents per gallon; olives not in solution, 3 cts. per pound. I |
