When we consider the extent of the chemical industry of the United States, in which are invested over $150,000,000, an industry that requires the highest ability, with technical education and complete training far beyond the need of the majority of other branches of manufacture, it surely can not be thought unreasonable that an average of 25 per cent be required and given, especially when the average of the duties required by others is claimed to be over 40 per cent. As has been said, the chemical industry asks no favors-only fair treatment and justice, and that it shall not be sacrificed to serve the selfish purposes of the importers or those manufacturers who consume chemicals. THOMAS S. HARRISON, Chairman, Thirty-fifth and Grays Ferry Road, Philadelphia, Pa. PROPOSED DUTY ACIDS. Acetic or pyroligneous, not exceeding the specific gravity of 1.047, per pound Acetic or pyroligneous, exceeding the specific gravity of 1.047 per pound.. The rates proposed are less than the act of 1890, and will average less than 20 per cent, which is the rate of the act of 1894. 4 cent. 3 cents. Boracic. per pound.. 3 cents. The rate proposed is the same as in the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. .per pound.. 6 cents. .per pound.. 8 cents. A large industry and one of comparatively recent date. Based on average of foreign prices covering several years the rate proposed would not average 25 per cent, and is less than the act of 1890. Sulphuric or oil of vitriol.. ..per pound.. The same as the act of 1890. Canada, from which competition may result, levies a duty of one-half cent per pound, Gallic.. Specially recommended for duty. Tannic or tannin... ¿ cent. .per pound.. 10 cents. The rate proposed is the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. Tartaric Made specific, and less than the act of 1890, All mineral acids, when chemically pure.. Specially recommended for duty, and very necessary to the protection of these important articles. Insufficient infor Alcoholic perfumery, including cologne water and other toilet waters; ALUM. Crystal and ground, alum cake, patent alum, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake.. The rate proposed is less than the act of 1890. Alumina, hydrate of, and refined bauxite.......... .per pound.. 14 cents. This paragraph has been revised, making an advance on the act of 1894, and a less duty than the act of 1890; also a different duty placed on the primary material from that on its manufactured product (alum). At the time this article was originally incorporated in the same paragraph with the alums, it was comparatively little known-certainly not as a commercial article. Its manufacture has now, however, been largely developed, the staple product being hydrate of alumina, a much more expensive article than its salts. The article requires a costly and expensive plant and very considerable chemical skill in its manufacture; furthermore, the principal material used in its manufacture (soda ash or caustic soda) is now subject to a duty equal to fully 40 per cent, and that duty it is proposed to retain; and as 1 pound of hydrate of alumina is equal to about 5 pounds of alum, it has been thought not unreasonable to propose the above duty. In addition, the bauxite, which is hydrate of alumina Carbonate of.. AMMONIA. Made specific, and a less duty than the act of 1890. Muriate of, or sal ammoniac........ Made specific, and the same duty as the act of 1890. per pound.. cent. cent. Sulphate of.. Made specific, and the same duty as the act of 1890. Bleaching powder, or hypo-chlorite or chloride of lime.... per pound.. Not heretofore especially specified. It is a dutiable article, and a very important one, and should have been made in this country many years since, and would have been made under reasonable encouragement in the way of a protective duty. We think that modern protection, such as is suggested, would ultimately, and within a very short time, result to the great advantage of consumers. Manufacturers of chemicals assure us that within three months they could have works in operation and that the market price would not exceed the present. It is now controlled by the United Alkali Company, of Great Britain, a gigantic trust, who make prices to suit themselves, having practically no competition, and it will be an article of considerable revenue. Blacking of all kinds. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Blue vitriol, or sulphate of copper... per pound.. An article of great consequence and manufacture of the United States, and recommended at a rate but one-half of the act of 1890. Bone char, suitable for use in decolorizing sugars. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. 1 cent. BORAX. Borate of soda, crude and refined.. per pound.. 2 cents. The rate of duty proposed is the same as the act of 1894. Borate of lime............ - per pound.. The rate proposed is less than the act of 1894 and that of 1890, the article being a crude or raw material produced by one company in the United States, which is said to have the monopoly of the same. Calcium chloride... per pound.. This article is dutiable under the general clause, No. 60, 25 per cent, and is taken out of said clause to guard against any possibility of its being confused with chloride of lime or bleaching powder. Camphor, refined.. ..per pound.. Made specific. The principal competition to be feared is now from Japan. Chalk, prepared, precipitated, French, and red; all other chalk preparations not otherwise provided for. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Chloroform. 1 cent. cent. 6 cents. .... per pound.. 25 cents. The rate of duty proposed is the same as the acts of 1890 and 1894. All coal-tar colors or dyes, by whatever name known and not otherwise provided for in this act, ad valorem The rate proposed is the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. 25 per ct. 25 per ct. 25 per ct. 25 per ct. Cobalt, oxide of. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. ..per pound.. 40 cents. The rate of duty proposed is the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. By whatever name known. Rolled or in slacets, but not made up into articles. If in finished or partly finished articles. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Coloring for brandy, wine, beer, or other liquors. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Copperas, or sulphate of iron... ..per pound.. cent. The rate of duty proposed is less than the act of 1890. Drugs, such as barks, beans, berries, balsams, buds, bulbs and bulbous roots, and excrescences (such as nutgalls), fruits, flowers, dried fibers, grains, gums and gum resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects; any of the foregoing which are not edible, but which have been advanced in value or condition by refining or grinding, or by other process of manufacture and not otherwise provided for, ad valorem. The same as in the acts of 1890 and 1894. 10 per ct. ..per pound.. The same as the acts of 1890 and 1894. Extracts and decoctions of logwood and other dyewoods; extract of sumac and extracts of barks, such as are commonly used for dyeing or tanning, not otherwise provided for, liquids.... Made specific, and the same rate as the act of 1890. Any and all of the above extracts, if in solid or dry form.... per pound.. Specially recommended for duty, this is the equivalent of the dry material in the liquid. Extracts of hemlock bark.... ..per pound.. Made specific, and the same rate as the act of 1890. Gelatin, glue, isinglass, or fish glue, and prepared fish bladders, or fish sounds; gelatin, glue, and isinglass, or fish glue, valued at not over 7 cents per pound; gelatin, glue, and isinglass, or fish glue, valued at over 7 cents per pound, and not over 30 cents per pound; gelatin, glue, and isinglass, or fish glue, valued at over 30 cents per pound. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Crude, not purified... Refined.... GLYCERIN. 7 cent. 14 cents. cent. Both are the same as the act of 1894, and less than the act of 1890. Extracts or pastes of... Carmines and indigotine.... INDIGO. per pound.. cent. ...do.... 10 cents. Both are the same as the act of 1890. per pound.. 20 cents. Less than the act of 1890. The American sublimers of iodine are now competing with the cheap laborers of Japan; the Japanese are now sending resublimed iodine to this country. Iodoform.... ..per pound.. The rate proposed is less than the act of 1890. Licorice, extracts of, in paste, rolls, or other forms. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. $1. Carbonate of, medicinal..... Calcined Sulphate, or epsom salts MAGNESIA. .per pound.. The rates proposed are the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. Morphia or morphine, and all salts thereof..... ...per ounce.. The duty on morphia or morphine and the salts thereof has remained undisturbed at 50 cents per ounce in the various tariff bills, whether enacted into laws or otherwise, and the rate has been carefully considered each time and conceded to be a fair and reasonable one. Morphine is made from gum opium, which fluctuates very greatly in price. Thus, December 7, 1889, opium, prime, Turkey trade, 11 to 12 shillings per pound; December 20, 1890, 11 to 13; December 12, 1891, 8 to 9; December 3, 1892, 74 to 8; December 16, 1893, 8 to 10; December 15, 1894, 10 to 11; December 12, 1895, 71⁄2 to 7; November 28, 1896, 8 to 92. Alizarine assistant, by whatever name known, whether liquid, saponified or in paste or solid.... 8 cents. 7 cents. cent. 50 cents. .per gallon.. 35 cents. This is a reduction from some forms of the article, and is thought to be sufficiently descriptive to cover all. Castor.... OIL. .per gallon.. 35 cents. The rate of duty proposed is the same as the act of 1894, and less than the act of 1890. Cod liver. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Cotton seed, per gallon of 7 pounds weight. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Croton.... .per pound.. 20 cents. The rate of duty proposed is less than the act of 1890. Flaxseed or linseed, raw, boiled, or oxidized, per gallon of 7 pounds weight. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Poppy seed has been taken out of this paragraph, and is specially dutiable as below. 6 cents. Poppy seed.. .per gallon.. Previous to the act of 1890, when this article was duty free, the importations were in the neighborhood of 2,000 barrels per year, and for the last three years, or since the act of 1890, they have been only about 50 barrels per year. Poppy-seed oil can not be made here; neither can the prime oil-bearing seed be successfully cultivated on our soil, owing to climatic conditions; it does not compete with any of our oils-not even with linseed-as the poppy oil is used to make the artists' colors and ground zinc which are now imported from France, England, and Germany. The price of poppy oil to-day (if free) would be 67 to 68 cents per gallon, against the price of 33 to 35 cents on linseed oil, as it is not a competitor of the latter. With the duty at 6 cents per gallon, there would be collected for revenue about $10,000 per annum without injury to any established industry and to the advantage of labor in this country in the production of ground-zine white and artists' colors. With the duty as in the act of 1894 the revenue received has been only about $600 per annum. Hemp seed and rape seed.. ..per gallon.. 10 cents. Same rate as in the acts of 1890 and 1894. Fusel or amylic alcohol, ad valorem. Same rate as in the acts of 1890 and 1894. Olive, fit for salad purposes; peppermint; scal, herring, whale, and other fish oil not otherwise provided for. Insufficient information regarding these three items upon which to base rate of duty. OPIUM, Aqua, extract of, for medicinal use, and tincture of, as laudanum, and all other liquid preparations of opium not otherwise provided for, ad valorem.... Same rate as act of 1894, and less than act of 1890. Same rate as act of 1894, and less than act of 1890. 10 per ct. 20 per ct. $6 BARYTA. Sulphate of, or barytes, manufactured...... ..per ton.. $3 Free. The same rate as the act of 1894. Carbonate of, or witherite, and baryta, sulphate of, or barytes, unmanufactured, including barytes earth.. The same as the act of 1894. BLUES. Such as Berlin, Prussian, Chinese, and all others containing ferro-cyanide The rate proposed is the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act Chrome yellow, chrome green, and all other chromium colors, dry or ground ...per pound.. The duties recommended on the raw material used in the manufacture of yellow and green render it imperative that the duty on yellows and greens be advanced to 5 cents per pound; also, the difficulty of determining precisely the amount of water contained in the pulp is productive of fraud upon the revenue and endless contention, and in order to avoid all differences arising therefrom it is thought advisable to include both the pulp and dry at the same rate. Ocher and ochery earths, sienna and sienna earths, umber and umber earths, not otherwise provided for, dry.. Ground in oil.. .per pound.. The rates proposed are the same as the act of 1890. Ultramarine blue, whether dry, in pulp, or mixed with water, and wash blue containing ultramarine.. 8 cents. cent. 20 per ct. 5 cents. 1 cent. 14 cents. ..per pound.. 4 cents. Varnishes, including so-called gold size or japan, and all spirit varnishes for the alcohol contained therein. Insufficient information upon which to base rate of duty. Vermilion red and colors containing quicksilver, dry or ground in oil or water.... Made specific, and the same rate as act of 1890. .per pound.. 12 cents. Not containing quicksilver, but made of lead or containing lead, per A slight advance over the act of 1894 and less than the act of 1890. ..per pound.. The proposed rate is the same as the act of 1894 and less than the act Whiting, ground in oil or putty .per pound.. The proposed rate is the same as the act of 1890, and is recommended because of the duty of 20 cents per gallon on linseed oil, which is equivalent to 24 cents per pound on the oil. ZINC. Oxide of, and white paint containing zinc, but not containing lead, dry, 71 cents. cent. 1 cent. 1 cent. 14 cents. - per pound.. 14 cents. The proposed rate in both cases is the same as the act of 1894. Sulfid zinc white, or white sulphide of zinc.. .. per pound.. All other paints, colors, and pigments, whether dry or mixed, or ground in water or oil, or other solutions, including all colors in tubes, lakes, crayons, smalts, and frostings, and not otherwise provided for, ad valorem.. 35 per ot. This is an advance and essential, due to the duties on the articles composing the various manufactures included in this schedule, the rate of 25 per cent (act of 1894) having been found so insufficient as to prevent the successful production in this country of many of the other paints and pigments. |