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~â€"â€"â€"- -.... ‘ THE BUDGET SPEECH An Important Deliverance by the Finance Minister. Many Changes in the Tariffâ€"Duties Reduced on Agricultural Imple- mentsâ€"A Reduction also on Iron Imposts. Hon. Mr. Foster was warmly received on rising to make the budget statement. He began by pointing out. that the gross revenue amounted to $38,000,000, $168,608 more than the estimate, and $1,246,737 more than the insane of last year. The chief items of increase in the import duties were. Bread-stuffs, $20,495 ; cement, $17,797 ; copper and manufactures of, $12,028; cotton, 8181.419 ; fancy goods, $26,252; flax, hemp and jute and manufactures of, $18,910; furs and manufactures of, 7,191; gloves and mitts, $7.193; gold and silver and maria factures of, $10,684 ; hats, caps and bonneis, $30,278 : iron and steel and manufactures of, $66,280 ; leather, $28,166; oils, coal, kerosene and products of, $30,874; silk, manufactures of, $92,138 ; spirits and wines, $164,918; tobacco and manufactures of, $22,075; wool, $213,826 ; 9.1 other dutiable goods, $41,169. Tux nscsnasss. The items of decrease v.ere: Ale, beer and porter, $21,071 ; animals, living. $16,- 113 ; carriages, $25,187; carpets and squares, $12,445; coal and coke, $7,150; earthen- ware and china, $11,593; fruits and-nuts, $16,553 ; fruits, green, $38,631 ; jewellery, $7,407 ; musical instruments, $12,281 ; paper and manufactures ,of, $9,902 ; provi- sions, viz., butter, cheese, lard and meats, $107,647 ; sugar of all kinds, $67,493 ; mo- 1asses, $8,456; vegetables, $9,942; wood, manufactures of, $17,042. - nos. 0.. s. FOSTER. Coming to expenditure, the estimate for the year was $36,500,000. Actual expendi- ture was $36,814,052, an excess of $314,052 Income was $38,168,000, so that the total expenditures taken from the total revenue left $1,354,556 to be carried to capital account. The increase in expenditure in 1892-3 as compared with the previous year was $147,217. In 1887-8 the expenditure was $36,718,494. in 1392-3 $36,814,052, an increase of only $95,558. On capital account the expenditure this year had been in excess of the expenditure during the your previous, but this was simply on account of the fin- ishing of the Sault Ste. Marie canal. He had, however, to say that the revenue and expenditure for 1892-3 did not present so favorable a statement as the year previous. The revenue up to the 10th of March. 1891, was $25,006,000 ; last year up to the same time it was $25,771,600. The expenditure up to the 10th of March this year was 3:32,- 633,000, while the expenditure for the same time last year was $22,235,000. After the 10th of March up to the 30th of June of last year the revenue accrued had amounted to $12,397,000. If be calculated upon the basis of the revenue last year for the time between the 10th March and 30th June this year, he would have a total revenue of S37,- 493,000, and an expenditure of $37,212,000; but he could not expect so large a revenue this year, because last year was remarkable as a steady and progressive year. He looked for a decreased revenue this year, for the reason that there was a general apprehension in the country that there was to be a change in the tariffconditions. This apprehension had caused prudent men to keep back expenditure. They were at the same time feeling the dying end of the commercial disturbances of other countries. This he believed and hoped would be brief. He did not anticipate for the year ending June 30, 1894. any more revenue than 536,- 500,000, or $36,750,000. The great works chargeable to capital necount were approaching completion. In three months Canadian vessels would pass through the Ste. Mario canal, and there would only be left an outlay to complete the St. Lawrence canals. Mr. Charltonâ€"What depth of water is it proposed to have in the St. Lawrence canals? Mr. Fosterâ€"I think about 38,01 0,000 or $10,000,000 are required to give them a fourteen-foot depth. T118 TARIFF ClI.\ NO 8.3. Having gone over the financial exposition Mr. Foster took up the second branch of his speech, namely, the tariif changes it was proposed to introduce. All would agree that tin-r0 could not be a more important question than the arrangement of the tariff and the principles which underlie it. The principal aspect under which the tariff was to be viewed was not in its details, but as to its effect upon the trade and development of the country. In 1878 the people decided whatshould be the principle of the tariff, and had reaffirmed that principle on several occasions. There were only three possible principles upon which the tariff could be modelled. There must be either complete free trade, a revenue tariff with incidental protection. which is never designed. The third method was a protective tariff, by which protection was both incidental and designed to be a protection. The brief review that I have made of the financial situation as regards the months. that have passed of the present financial year will be sufficient to show the House that we do not expect this year, and we do not expect next year, any considerable sur- plus. Un the contrary, we expect that it will require the closest economy and the closest sailing in order to keep thecxpenses within the revenues that come min the consolidated fund. But taking these tvvo things into account, both the depression that exists and the necessity for not paring 06' the revenue too largely-,the Government have come to conclusions with reference to the tariff, and are prepared to submit them been reduced to 20 per cent., which is the percentage placed upon live animals in the \\ ilson Bill, and the bill aseinanating from to the good judgment. 0" the House and of the Senate Committee so far as it has gone. the country. that Ihave not attempted to do, that the Government have not found it to do, in the rearrangement of this tariff. It has not been passable to proceed upon any fixed rule of uniformity, any fixed rule of horizontal reduction. Neither have the GOVernment found it possible to adopt any hard and fast rule with reference to the vex- ed question ofspecific and ad valorem duty. In framing the tariff which _ I pro- pose to present, our main object has been to simplify and make clear that tariff. Six hundred and sixty-five items of dutiable gonds have been, as the House W111 see, very considerably boiled down. Three schedules have been madeâ€" one for dutiablc goods, one for free goods, and one for prohibited coeds. They have been arranged in the first schedule underl classes alphabetically, and in the other schedules simply in an arithmetical way, and the aim has been, where items conflicts ed, to have them harmonized, and where there were grades of goods of different kinds, but yet which blended with each other so as to make it difficult. for the ap. praiser and Custom house officers to tell the difference between them,and which had different valuations, to place them under equivalent duties, and thus avoid the in- convenience, the vexation and the confusion that arose from conflicting claims as to the quality of the article and the item under which it came. As far as it could possibly be done, special exemptions have been struck from the list, although as they have existed from the first, and industries have grown up on them. it has been found im- possible in all cases to strike them out, and in some cases the necessities of the situation seem to demand their continuance. The prime object in view has been to cheapen the cost of manufactures in this couiitry,to clieapen the cost at which the goods issue FROM THE FACTORY itself; for there is another item of which people think too little, and‘which is not clearly treated even by people who do know it, and that is that the cost to the consumer and the cost of goods as they issue from the manufacturer are two very different things. Innuinerable instances can be found of the increase of cost on goods from the time they leave the factory until they go into the hands of the consumer, and that has militated, and has been made to militate, unjustly against the policy and the factory itself. Two ways have been adopted for cheapeniiig the cost of gsods, one by lowering the duty upon raw material and the other by transfering raw materials from the dutiablc to the free list. It has been found in the course of the work that we have pretty well exploited that division of the subject, and that in this country almost all the goat staples for manu- facturing were already on the free list. The range of duties which have been placed on different articles have been reduced according to the vigour and the development of the industry itself, according to the condition of competition outside, and according to the advantages that home production has for various reasons in our own market. While endeavoring to sacrifice no industry which can reasonably hope to maintain it- self in this country, so far as it can be done by the imposition of a reasonable duty which will give it sufficient vantage ground to maintain itself here, employing labour and paying wages into the hands of labour, to be used again in buying the products of the farmers, we have endeavored to take these matters into account, and by a rea- sonable protection to retain all those in- dustries which are in the country, which employ labour, and which work up the raw mat» rials of the country or use import- ed raw material, and which industries are consequently benefiting the country. In dealing with the tariff, Mr. 'Foster said :-â€"The first item in the schedule of dutiable goods is that of liquors and tobac- co. On tobacco we have made no change. On spirituous liquors we have made no change whatever. With reference to malt liquors, it will be remembered that two or three years ago, when I undertook in the face of a fairly buoyant revenue to reduce that revenue by $3,500,000 or more, I had to have recourse, for a limited period at least, to some speedy method of recouping the great drop in the revenue caused by the reduction of the sugar taxation. I did so by putting a larger duty, although small in degree, upon tobacco; by heightening the duty to a small extent on spirituous liquors, both excise and Customs; by heightening also the excise on malts, making the excise, which had always been in this country, with the exception of a small space of time, one cent a pound, two cents per pound. That was felt to be a very large increase. If. operated in this way, that the malt and consequently the beer duty,in this country, became seven cents, as compared with the four cents in Great Britain and 3 3-10 cents in the United States. The revenue has since come up largely to the expectations formed. The chasm that was made has been filled, and under these circumstances the Government has determined to take 021" from the malt duties one-half cent per pound, leaving it at one cent and a half, in- stead of one cent, which it was all the rest of the time since Confederation. with the exception of one or two years. The loss which will accrue to the revenue from that will be in the neighbourhood of $200,000. \Ve will get some accretion of revenue, probably, from the larger amount made, because under the two cent duty on malt the production decreased to a certain ex- tent, and sugar and other substances Were used which it is said are deleterious in their effect. I leave that to my hon. friends op- posite to judge. I come next to the item of AcuiCt'L'rL'RAi. PRODUCTS, the second class of the schedule. From the remarks which I have made it will be seen that it is not the policy of the Government to decrease in any material degree the pro~ tection at present afforded to the agricul- tural interests of the country. The effect upon their interests has been as I have said, and with those effects fully in view the Government did not feel itself justified, as, indeed, it did not feel disposed to do, in diminishing the rotection which has worked so well an been so valuable an adjunct to that class. Some changes. how ever. have been made. Animals, living, which were formerly- 51 r. Lauderkinâ€"lkad. Mr. Fosterâ€"Which were formerly 30 per cent. with the exception of live hogs, some of which are still alive and active, have Now, there are some things possible Live hogs, which were formerly two cents per pound, have been made ‘25 per cent “lien We come to beef, fresh or salted. ad valorem. But there is a clause attached which is as follows: “That this duty shallcontinue until 27th March, 1395, and therefore the rate shall be six cents per pound, it being the inten- tion of the Government not to continue to collect this amount, but to try and have i which was two cents per pound, that rate the matter adjusted by that time ina better jhas been retained. Fresh mutton, which and more satisfactory way. Book.- for the was three cents per pound, has been re- . deaf, dumb and blind are admitted free. : duced to two cents per pound. Meats not I éyet scheduled, including canned meats, :poultry and game, are ‘25 per cent. ad E velorem. One explanation is due upon that ,item. It is this: The House will re- lmember that \.\'1T1L1;81-‘ERE.\'CE T0 PORK ’ we had two schedules. One Was intended i to include what was called the heavy or mess 3 pork, and upon that a duty of a cent and a 1 half per pound was placed. The other was , intended to include the lighter pork, and. upon that a duty cf 3 cents was placed. The i only way we had of distinguishing between i the heavy and the light pork was by the , probable number of pieces that should be in the barrel, but a very little experience was jsullicisnt to show that that was entirely inadequate. It was impossible to open every barrel and inspect it and find the number of pieces, and even if that were possible, it was practicable for them to cut up the hogs in such a way that there should be the ‘ requisite number of pieces even though it ‘ were alight pork, and then after it was ‘ introduced into the country to reoack the pork, thus having it come in at 1!,- instead of 3 cents. That difficulty, therefore, had to be overcome, and the simplest and easiest way has been found to put a uniform duty of 23 per cent. on both kinds. This will have the effect. of raising the duty somewhat on the heavy pork, and of reducing it a shade on the light pork. wuss wt: COME TO THE GRAINS, oats have been kept at 10 cents per bushel and oatmeal at 40 cents per barrel, but two ,schedules have been formed with other 'grains. The first schedule contains corn and barley. The duties on these are kept as they were before, but there is added this clause: “Both the above products shall be admitted free of duty from any country which imposes no import duty on either when imported from Canada.” That is an offer of reciprocity to any country that chooses to take it up. Mr. Mills (Bothwoll)â€"â€"What is the ob- ject of leaving oats out? Mr. Fosterâ€"The object of leaving oats out of that proposal was in order to give protection to that product of the farmer in Canada; a. very large product, and one which in some portions of Canada might be adverse at certain times, and under certain conditions, if the duty were removed. Then, again, buckwheat, rye, flour, beans, peas, hay, potatoes, green and ripe apples and vegetables are left with the same duties, or nearly the same, as they had under the old tariff, but they are all put in one item, and it is enacted that each of the above products shall be admitted free of duty from any country which imposes no duty on like products when imported from Canada. Sweet potatoes. four cents a bushel, with a reduction in behalfof the Consumer in part, and a reduction also with reference to THE ISLAND or BERMUDA which imposes a very slight duty on Cana- dian products going in there, and which by letter and otherWise has brought to the at- tention of the Government the high duty on those two products from that Island. The French treaty, when it comes into opera- tion, will all‘ec'. these by the very fact of its coming into operation to the extent of the proportionate reduction which is provided for in the treaty. The book publishing interest in Canada does not occupy the position that it did many years ago. The large book houses which were then scatter- ed in almost every consrdereble city, doing their business in their special way, have largely gone out of the business, and it has taken other channels of distribution, most widely among which is that of the sub- scription sales and of the distribution of books by means of agents through the towns, villages and rural portions of the country. The book duty, therefore, has been an ad valorem duty, and that has been complained of on the ground of principle. After considering the matter carefully the decision has been arrived at to change the duty and to make it a pound duty rather than ad valorem. At first sight that might seem to defeat the object of those who claimed that for the reading public who take scientific,philosophical and education- al works because books are not printed in this country and cannot be printed here, that syst in would bear more heaVily on that cla s and more lightly on the class of books ofa more ephemeral nature, including current literature put up in paper covers or more lightly put together than books of the other class. But the test shows that it is not so. If you take a subscription book bound, which sells at $5, its weight will probably be four pounds,add an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent. as at present, the duty would be 45 cents. It is proposed to make the duty a pound duty of6 cents per pound. The duty on such a book would be 24 cents instead of 45 cents. If you come down to CURRENT AND LIGHT LITERATURE. large quantities of which are sent into this country, and which have not an expensive binding, and whose prices are almost nom- inal, such a book coming here would weigh half a pound or threequarters of a pound, and the invoice price would be but a few cents per pound, the ad valorem duty is almost nothing, the pound duty would be considerable. Another point arises, and that is this, that in the distribution of books [in the country, the post office is largely availed of, and great difficulty arises from an ad valorem from the post office customs distribution. It involves the appraisement of each book at the place where it is deliv- ered. The pound duty is much easier. The Olliucr has simply to put the book in the scale and weigh it. Sir Richard Cartwrightâ€"“'01 it be made fractional? Three cents for the hal: pound '.’ Mr. Fosterâ€"Yes, broadly stated, on the question of principle. 1 think it is this, that the pound duty does not tax the g ruins the spirit, the thought in the book; it taxes the paper and the binding and the article entering into its reduction. It is a better protective duty to those articles than to the printer as reg irds that class of book which it is impossible to produce here. The duty will be 6 cents per pound for books instead of an ad valorem duty of 15 percent. per pound,a duty of 12§ percont., which is the amount we Collect in payment of the copyright, and transcrin (‘oming next tochem‘cals, oils and paints, thevinegarduty has been kept at the semen duty before. 'lhere isa‘n excise on themauu- facture of vinegar in the country, all of which is carried on under inland revenue, and it is proposed to make the excise duty larger and to get an additional revenue of some thousands of dollars therefrom, The additional income will be probably about 530.000. On the question of illuminating ‘ and lubricating oils 3 new arrangement of the duties has been made. Various repre- sentations have been made in Parliament and out of it looking to the reduction of duty on illuminating oil. After having carefully thought over the subject, with a view to do whatever was resonable for the general public and with a very strong un- willingness to destroy an industry which has existed from,confederation up, and existed always under the protection of the Govern- ment. A year or more ago very large prices were paid for oils, whether they were Canadian oils, or American oils. That was not the fault of the producers at Petrolea. At the very time the Ua~ nadian oils were selling from 25 cents to 45 cents per gallon, in Canada, they were being sold in bulk at Petrolea for 9 and 11 cents per gallon. It was pointed out to the producers last year that it was neces sary for them to take measures by which oil should be reduced in price to the con- suming public, and with an expenditure of commendable energy, and nexpenditure I am sure of a large amount of money, they have perfected arrangements by which to day, instead of the prices which I have quoted, oil is being distributed now from Calgary to Cape Breton and sold at no place at a greater cost than 25 cents per gallon,and coming down to a cost of 10 and 1'21; cents per gallon. The duty of 7 1-5 cents per gallon is a large duty, but it is a duty which is not availed of by the produc- ers and sellers of the oil. On the other 1 hand, from those who use American oil a ~ very large revenue, some $400,000 is re- ceived, which it is difficult for the Govern- ment to sacrifice without replacing it in some other way. The amount of oil which is used by each family is not surprisingly large in quantity, and is not surprisingly great in its value. . Sir Richard Cartwrightâ€"What do you compute the total consumption, both home and imported '2 Mr. Fosterâ€"The division is about two- thirds to one-third ; one-third of the market is supplied by the U.S. illuminating oil and two thirds of the market is supplied by the home product. Under these circumstances the Government has come to the conclusion 1 not to lower the duty upon our illuminating oils this year. Some change has been made, however, with reference to the distribution, and arrangements will be made by the in- ‘ land revenue by which the oil can be deliver- ed and stored in tanks in any city or in any ‘ village and by which it can be distributed . without many of the vexatione and addition to the expenses which exist. " Coming to earths, earthen ware, glassware I and stoneware, brick for building remains ' at 20 per cent. There were two schedules, I one of china and porcelain ware, and one of earthenware. The duty on china and porce- lain was less than the duty on earthenware, and there were occasions for disputes arising l at custom houses. The two are thrown into one and the common duty of 30 per cent. is put upon them. I now come to the class of metals and manufactures of, including all the articles of prime importance. Upon this a great deal of attention and careful consideration has been bestowed. On the one hand, the duties upon iron have been, and are relatively high. On the other hand, there is the patent fact that unless there be a sufficient inducement in the way of protec- tion or bounty given for the manufacture of iron, it will be impossible in this country, as it has been found in all other countries, ever to rise from the raw ores, which abound in this country, to the independ- ent and self-cautained manufacture of the larger portion of the iron needed for the consumption of the country. That problem has been solvcdin part before by the fixing of a duty of $1 per ton upon pig iron, and grading the duties on puddled and bar iron in proportion. Scrap, which is a raw ma- terial, out of which bar iron is made, was, however, when these duties were arranged in 1887, left at the import duties of $2 per ton. The consequence of that has been this : Instead of the bar iron of the coun- try being made from puddled bars, the product from pig iron, and that from the iron ores of the country, no bar iron is at present made in the country from puddled bars. All that is made, is made from scrap and bar, either the native scrap or import- ed scrap. That has its effect upon the quality of the iron, but its most serious c'l‘ect is that the development of the iron industry, which is so much desired, has been“ in that way retarded. Some method, therefore, had to be adopted in order to remove that disadvantage by a general scheme of iron duties. It is not our inten- tion to-night to destroy every vestige of protection so far as the iron s-hcdule is concerned. \Vc must bear in mind that in 1887 the first attempt was made to give iron any real protection in this country. It was at that period, and only six years ago, that Parliament assented to a scheme which had for its object the development of the iron industry by a system of protection and bounty. The problem which confronted the Government was this: In the first place, not to destroy the development of our iron industry; in the second place, to give as much relief as possible to those who make up all kinds of articles from the iron of commerce, that is, the paddled bar or the bar iron. In steering between these two conflicting interests, the Government have concluded to adopt this as their pol- icy: To keep upon pig iron the same cus- tom! duty and the same bounty as at pres- cnt, the duty being 84 per ton and the bounty 82 per ton. Mr. Edgarâ€"That is on the net ton. .‘vlr. Fosterâ€"Yea; the net ton is always understood in our duties. That pig iron a protection of $6 per too. not. proposed to disturb that duty. The difficulty, however, which has occurred from the introduction of scrap and the practical making of all the bar iron of the country from scrap had to be met, and the gives to It is This is. proposal of the Government is to make the scrap duties from to the year $3 instead of $4. of January, 1395, $4 per ton. duty it is supposed that not a v..._ deal of foreign scrap will be importeu. \ A object is to induce the manufacture of bin ‘1” ' iron from the iron of the countryâ€"me the paddled bars. Sir Richard Cartwrightâ€" You expect that duty to be prohibitive! Mr. Fosterâ€"1t will largely act as a deb errent to the importation of foreign scrap. It is proposed to keep the duty and bounty upon pig iron. In order to reduce the cost or merchantable iron to the country, a re- duction will be made in bar iron of ‘l per ton, reducing it from $13 to $10. A reduc- tion W111 be made also in puddle bar, from $9 to $5, being a reduction of $4 or too : and iron and steel will be treated a1 through on an equality as respects the impolite, and upon these lowered duties on steel and iron the reductions have been made in the arti- cles which are manufactured from these forms of iron. But in order to stimulate the production of puddled bar from the pig iron, so that the process of development cannot stop at the point of pig iron, it is proposed to give a bounty of 8‘2 per ton upon paddled bar and what corresponds to that in steel. Both bounties on pig iron and puddle bar to run five years from the day of this enactment, and also with this proviso, that if in two years from this, for instance, a blast furnace starts and goes into operation of making iron it shall have the benefit of the bounties on the strength of which it made the investment for five years from the time it commenced to make the pig iron or paddled bars. Mr. Paterson (Brant)-â€"-\Vill the old con- cerns go on for five years 2 Mr. Fosterâ€"They go on for five years from this date. . ‘ Mr. Charltonâ€"How will it be in the case of those which start four years from this date 2 Mr. Fosterâ€"They will have the five years bounty in the same way. Mr. Paterson (Brant) That one concern, but not the others. Mr. Fosterâ€"Not the others. The object 9f beauty, in every case, is to induce the investment of capital in the making of iron from the ore into the pig or paddled iron. It is in the general interest that these in- dustries shall be distributed in different ' parts of the country so as to overcome to a large extent the heavy cost of distribution, owing to our geographical extent. In conclusion, Mr. Foster expressed his thanks for the patience and courtesy with which the House had listened to him. He resumed his seat amid loud applause. Sir. Richard Cartwright arose at 11.05 p. m. to move the adjournment of the dc- ate, and the House adjourned. ' CHANGES IN THE SCHEDULES. Comparisons Between the Old and‘ New Tariff on Various Articles. _ Cigars and cigarettes, new, per pound and 25 per cent. ad vuloreiu; the weight of the cigarettes to include the weight of the paper covering; old, $2 per pound and 25 per cent. Cut tobacco, new, 45 cents per pound and 12 1-2 per cent. ; old, 45 cents per pound and 12 1-2 per cent. Manufactured tobacco, new, n.e.s., and V snuff, 35 cents per pound and 12 1-2 per cent Animals, living, new, n.e.s., 20 per cent.; old cattle and sheep, 80 per cent. ; other n.e.s., 20 per cent. Live hogs, new, 25 per cent; old, 20 per pound. Beef, salted, in barrels, new and fresh, mutton, new, 2c per pound; old same. Meats, new, n.e.s., including canned meats and canned poultry and game, 25 per cent. ; old, mess pork, 1 1-2c; other, 3c. Extracts of meats and fluid beef not medicated and soups, new, 25 per cent. ad valorem; old, same; lard and cottoloue, new. 25 per cent.; old, lard, 3c; cottolene, 20 per cent. ‘ Tallow, staric acid and stearine of all kinds, new, n.e.s., 20 per cent.; old, tel. low, 10; stearic acid, etc., 30. Soap, n.e.s., pearline and other powders, pumice, silver and mineral soaps, sapolio, and like articles 35 per cent. ad valorem; soap, old, 10 per cent, per pound and 10 per cent. Soup, common or laundry, not perfumed, 1 cent per pound. . Castile soap, mottled or white, and white soap, n.e.s., 2 cents per pound; old. the same. Condensed milk, condensed coffee, con- doused coffee with milk, milk foods and all similar preparations, including pre- served giiiger, 30 per cent. ; old, condensed milk, sweetened 11 1-2c per pound and 35 per cent. ; do, do. unsweetened 35 per cent. Hay, $2 per ton. Vegetables, when fresh or dry salted, n. e.s., 25 per cent; old tariff some. 1’ro« vided that green or ripe apples, beans, buckwheat, peas, potatoes, rye, rye flour, hay and vegetables, n.e.s., or any of them shall be free of duty when imported into Canada from the country of production, it such country whence any of the above pro- ducts are imported imposes no duty on like products imported thence from Canada. Barley, 15 cents per bushel. Indian corn, 7 1-2 cents per bushel. l’ro- vided that barley and Indian corn shall be be free from duty when imported into Canada from the country of production, it such country from whence one or both are imported admits both these products free 03 duty when imported thence from Can- a a. ‘ Oatmeal. 50 cents per barrel; old, 1-20 per pound. Rice, uncleaned, unhulled or paddy, new, fivevtenths of 1 cent per pound; old, 17} per cent. Rice, new, 1 cent per pound; old, 1} cent per pound. Rico and sage flour, and sage, new, 25 per cent; old, 2 cents per pound. Wheat, new, 15 cents per bushel; old, same. Wheat flour, new, 75 cents per barrel: old, same. Seeds, viz., garden. field and other seeds, for agricultural and other purposes, ii.o.p., when in bulk or in large parcels, new, 10 per cent. ad valorem; when put up in small papers or parcels 25 per cent. ad Valorcui; old, name. Mustard, ground, new, 25 per cent. ad valorem; old, name. Mustard, cake, new, 15 per cent. ad valorem; old, 20 per cent. Sweet pumlors and yarn», new, 10 cents per bushel; old, ‘25 per cant. Tomawtzil. fresh. new, .20, cents W a...» . .- new; a...“ flu...» ~. _...__..._ . --vâ€"..â€"_. o..â€" y-.~.,.- . «<mxâ€"M..,w