Melville Fuller

“ The protest specifically stated that the goods were 'partly cotton gloves, mixed with silk', and 'composed of cotton and silk; cotton chief part; the duty of 60 per cent. being only legal where silk is the chief part;' and that the gloves were liable to a duty of only 35 per cent., less 10 per cent. The objection was that the protest did not state that the gloves were made on frames, and this court held, again speaking through Mr. Justice Blatchford, that: 'It is entirely immaterial that the protest did not specify that the gloves were made on frames. ”

“ The claim made by the protest was that these goods were dutiable, as nonenumerated, under the last clause of section 2499, [1] at 35 per cent. ad valorem, as being composed of hair and cotton only, and the cotton chargeable at a higher rate than calf hair. ”

“ The report of the case-41 Fed. 881-shows, and it is so asserted by the government, that the goods were classified under the first clause of that section as bearing a similitude to manufactures composed wholly or in part of 'the hair of the alpaca, goat, or other like animals,' as provided by the twelfth paragraph of class 3 of Schedule L, section 2504, Rev. St. ”