New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-04-15
THE NEW TARIFF.
CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS PROPOSED BY
TIE;WAvS AND MEANS COMMITTEE.

T&UCE.
10y Tn,EGRApH TO THH TrIBCNsI
VJAsurYGroN, April 1.-The Committee on
w avs and Mems were in session the greater part OK
y, cetorday and made a number OF notifications IN
their TSrif aud Tax bill. It is scarcely probable
that the lil will be reported tomorrow, there yet
rcmssng considerable work in the Of final re-
vii1,4 20 be done. The efforts to effect COM
proyl'sc that will restore something like harmony
lpswcsn Chairman Dawes and the Free Traders,
have been unremittinCly kept mp during the past
dArec days. Speaker Blaine has interested himself
in the work feeling no doubt that much OF the re-
sponsib.hty for tho split in the Committee Will
be laid at his door. Secretary Boutwell, has
also had interviews with the members of both fac
ticns, and has done his best to pour oil upon the
troubled waters. Ii is understood that both the
Sneaker ard the Secretary have urged the Republi-
can committeeman not to bring their diesensons IN
10 the House for fear of the injury that might result
t. The party. Approximations are naturally enter
tanned by the party Leaders that months quarrel IN
the Republican ranks in tho House over the Tariff
,ou'd rot take place without the animosties engen-
Goscd going outside OF Congress- and affecting the
paftv ard perhaps even breaking ont in the PhiIa-
oclilia Convention. II Is the earnest dcsfo
If the Administration chiefs in Congress
tlot tho GREAT struggle over Tariff issues.
which all recognize impending, should be
postpored until after tho Presidential election, and
that ONLY a short compromise bill should be passed
fhis session i'm order 10 make show of reducing
taxation with which to go into the canvass. Ii is
reported to-day that the pcacemaheTs have been so
far successful in their labOr3 with the Committee as
10 make il certain that Mr. Dawes will report the
iii and take charge Of it, Offering, however, subsi-
tues to al the paragraphs which are Objectionable
TO him and his Protectionists. Since de
cord broke out in the Committee, Speaker
Blaine has been quito freely criticised for con-
,ituting it in the way ho aid. Many Pro-
tceioni,t5 say he ought not to have put Mr..
Dawes in the false position of presiding over
committee. the majority of whose members were
from the start radically opposed to him upon the
most important questions TO come before Them and
that by so doing, the Speaker did him serious il
juIy by weakening his influence in the House and
destroying 10 great eXtent the leadership when
usually attaches to the Ways and Means Chairman
s.in. The Free Traders declare that Mr.. Dawes
ghfald ucyc. have been put on the Committee at all,
hecause lie differs on the Tariff question from n large
rcjoity II the House, was perfectly manifest in
the vues last Spring free salt and coal and as was
consequently wei known to the Speaker when he
appointed him. They say that the Chairman is the
or~an Of the Committee, to present its views
TO the House, and that Mr. Dawcs's attitude
Of opposing the Committees bill, and seeking to
defeat IT, is anomalous and highly improper. There
~ perhaps some reason on Dolh siicsJ IL pO
i,lrc-ubcrcd however that when Gen. Schenck re-
tired from Congress, Mr.. Dawes occupied position
a inc head Of the Appropriations Committee, which
Geo, y entitled him to the promotion to the vacant
leadership: then, Gs to the make up Of the rest Of The
WAYS aud 31eaus Committee, it is not easy to see
how The S.ca'er could wei have done differently
frcla what he dill. He was bound to make II anti
Pro- ion, because he had evidence which he could
no. ri -srar.i-t',qt the MAORI of the House we're
no sol aptCl however, the most
mod..a.o OF ne " Revenue Reformers" and in that
way took II the prccaution he coud to prevent tie
occurrence IF such rupture as has happened
Tie following is the full text of the Tariff bill to
be reported By lhe Committee on Ways and Means
with all changes and amendments made up to this
hour:
be enacted by he Senate ard House Of Representa-
tires Of ne Unted States OF America in Congress as
penblcd, Thai and after tie first day Of January
1873 III lieu OF the duties heretofore imposed by law on
the articles hereinafter enumerated or provided Tor, i'm
ported from foreign countries there shall he Levied col
ected paid the following duties and rates OF duty,
that is 20 cay:
Or toas Of al kinds 70 cents per pound. On coffee of
al, &nds, cents per pound On an bitunous COAL %
on salt in bulk and all rock salt or mineral salt
cents per pounds On salt i'll bags, sacks, barrels, or
o. bcl'iag leather. and On sFensh or other sole
leather 95 Ter Ccntum al valorem On calf skius, tanned
On ifon in Pc rtup. Or bar iron. rolled or ham
nored comprising hats not less than inch or more
inches WIDE nor less tban Of inch more than
inches thick rounds not less than of an inch, nor more
Than iuthcs diameter and squares not less than
II an inch, than inches square, OF cent
Or pound. Ga iron rolled hammered, cOmprs-
IL '' 5 lSi1 '@ htk % or less f than inch and
Eos more than inches wide, rounds less than
: of an inch or more than inches in diameter, ana
Squares less than three fOurts of an nc or more tlan
ito inches square, one cent per pound; prOvden lnat
I'll iron in slabs, blooms, loops, OF other I0TI Tess n
islcd than iron in bars, and mora advanced than Pug
IRON except castings, shall be rated iron III bars, ana
nav dutv accordlgy provided, further, that none or
-, cfove nm "a II oy less rate of du:y than 80 per
ad val0rem. On al iron imported III pdrs loI
railroads and inclined planes made to patterns ani
further m uua tuTe, 60 cents per iVO poos. O pier
or other plate iron, not less than threesixteenhs OF an
inch in thickness one ana one-IaI cents per PouhH Gn
iron coils thTees X enths OF an inch or less IN
diameter whether coated with metal not, one and
fhree-fourth cents per pound.
On nsuatcd her Of iron or copper ana covered
With tt1 pcrcha Ohfr Insulating material, prepared
for aud used exclusively biography, u cents per
pound submarir telegraph cable foruse exclusively
In teegr hy SO per ccntum ad YalOreD On iron wire,
brght COppcred timed, drawn ana nishc1, not moro
than OF inch In diameter not less IMAM NO 10 wire
wire gauge S. per 100 pounds No. 26 wire gauge,
4, per 100 pounds pro yded that wire covered with cot
Ton silk or other material shall pay five cents pound
IN addition the foregoing rates. ana PROVIDED 1urter
that all wire rope and wire strand made OF Iron wire,
either bright cOppcred galvanized coated with other
metals shall pay the same rate OF duty that Is now
levied on the from wire Of which said rope strand is
made and all wire rope and wire strand made or steel
WIRE eher bright cOppered, galvanized or coated with
other metals shall pay the rate Of duty that is
levied on tie steel wire OF which said rope strand is
made spiral iron wire springs Tor FURNITURE cents
per pound. On smooth polished sheetlr0n, by what
ever name designated cents per pound On sheeron,
common black, not thinner than No 70 wire gauge
cent per pound thinner than Nd. 70 wire gauge, IL
On tin plates and iron, galvanized coated with any
metal by electric batteries otherwise, cents per
round on all band, hoop. and scroll iron from one half
10 al thinner