the effect of the words "not specially enumerated or provided for in the act." That the act of February 8, 1875, entitled, "An act to amend existing customs laws and internal-revenue laws, and for other purposes," except the proviso to section three, the proviso to section four and sections ten and eleven be repealed, and that the proviso to section three be changed to conform to the date of the passage of the bill proposed by the Commission. In many instances the classifications and rates of duties in the schedules attached to the report are not satisfactory to all the members of the Commission, but in each instance they received the assent of a majority, and as a whole the report of the Commission is concurred in by all of its members except as hereinafter stated. First. Commissioner Underwood does not concur in the recommendation for the establishment of a customs court. Second. Commissioners Ambler, Porter, and Underwood do not concur in the recommendation for the continuance of compound duties in any case. Third. Commissioner Ambler does not concur in recommending the abolition of duties on what are known as "dutiable costs and charges," believing these costs and charges to be part of the proper cost of the goods. Fourth. Commissioners Garland and Ambler recommend the adoption of a system of valuation of goods, subject to ad valorem duties, based on the value of the goods in the markets of the United States at the date of their importation, duties unpaid, instead of the present system, for reasons which will be found set forth in the statement of Hon. H. F. French, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, made before the Commis sion. JOHN L. HAYES, HENRY W. OLIVER, JR., PROPOSED SCHEDULE OF DUTIES. SCHEDULE A.-CHEMICAL PRODUCTS. Glue, twenty per centum ad valorem. Beeswax, twenty per centum ad valorem. Gelatine and all similar preparations, thirty per centum ad valorem. Glycerine, crude, two cents per pound. Glycerine, refined, five cents per pound. Phosphorus, ten cents per pound. Soap, hard and soft, all which are not otherwise specially enumerated or provided for in this act, and castile soap, two cents per pound. Fancy, perfumed, and all descriptions of toilet soaps, fifteen cents per pound. Sponges, twenty per centum ad valorem. Sumac, one-half of one cent per pound. Acid, acetic, acetous, or pyroligneous acid, not exceeding the specific gravity of 1.047, two cents per pound; exceeding the specific gravity of 1.047, ten cents per pound. Acid, citric, ten cents per pound. Acid, tartaric, ten cents per pound. Camphor, refined, five cents per pound. Castor beans, or seeds, thirty cents per bushel of fifty pounds. Castor oil, fifty cents per gallon. Cream of tartar, six cents per pound. Dextrine, burnt starch, gum substitute, or British gum, ten per centum ad valorem. Glucose, or grape sugar, twenty-five per centum ad valorem. Indigo, extracts of, and carmined, ten per centum ad valorem. Liquorice, paste or roll, six cents per pound; liquorice juice, three cents per pound. Oil of bay-leaves, essential, or bay rum essence or oil, two dollars and fifty cents per pound. Oil, croton, fifty cents per pound. Oil, flaxseed or linseed, twenty-five cents per gallon, seven and onehalf pounds weight to be estimated as a gallon. Hemp seed, and rape seed oil, ten cents per gallon. Soda and potassa, tartrate, or rochelle salt, five cents per pound. Strychnia, or strychnine, and all salts thereof, fifty cents per ounce. Tartars, partly refined, including lees crystals, four cents per pound. Acidulated phosphate of lime, ammoniated or otherwise, three dollars per ton. Alumina, alum, patent alum, alum substitute, sulphate of alumina, and aluminous cake and alum in crystals or ground, sixty cents per hundred pounds. H. Mis. 6-4 |