The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-06-22

The following importat artlcle-apparently
from the pen Of Mr. Jams Brooks-is publish
ed in the Evening EXPIRES: :,
There are some omissions, or perversions,
If not tricks in the new tariff that Congress
has just passed, for whici the committees OF
conference on the part Of the Senate and
House will be held respomibe, more especial
ly Messrs. Sherman and Dawes, when Con-
gress reassembles.
THE DUTY ON TEA AND COFFEE,
Notwithstanding all the r9eated ''acts" OF
both Houses OF Congress, not removed, II
this tea and coffee comes tQthe United States
through the Suez Canal via England or France.
Pacific railroads through San Francisco. or
under the American flag aound the Cape Of
Good Hope, where the American flag now
scarcely floats.
THE DUTY ON WRSTEDS
Is not reduced ten per cent, as Congress In
tended, for the word 'woraed," for the first
time In series of years, Is left out of the Con-
gressional tariff act, and the United States
courts have decided that WOOL is not worsted,
and that change of duty on ,''wooP' does not
change the duty on "ydrSted," unless espe-
cially named. Congress Intended 10 reduce
the duty on worsted, % On woods, ten per
cent; but by some Juggling, somewhere, The
New England wOrsted manufacturers escape
the reduction which the millions OF consumers
are to pay another year r more.
TIE DUTY ON UTE BUTTS
IA removed for the beneft of paper and come
other manufacturers, but the duty on jnte re-
mains as it Is. SIS per lon-ot no benefit to
not even 10 ths fax-growers In Mr..
Sherman's State. If the duty on jule was re-
moved we should soon build up 10 the United
States "Dundee" 10 offset The great jute
"Dundee" Of Scotlaud-the city Of Calcutta
{free) jute. Jute rejectlOns may be free or not
free under the new Tariff, as the secretary
of the treasury pleases 20 cOnstrue the silence
OF the law. What, however, attention is In
roked 10 jute for ls 10 note the specially
changed and muddy construction Of the law
on bags and bagging mlde of jute. Congress
intended to give The Unted States bag manu-
facturer ten per cent. al7ance over The bur-
laps OF which bags are made, and which has
been five per cent. lower 10 duty than the bur-
laps, whereby bags of bElaps can come over
here In lieu of bnrlSps Some influence has
made the words 1the set 30 muddy that II
depends altogether upon the secretary OF the
treasury whether the words mean what Con-
gress intended or not.
THE METAL REDUCTION,
too, in the tariff is so cl,udlly worded that 1t is
very doubtful whether or not the ten per
cent. reduction reaches certain ornamental
metal work made In anG around Philadelphia.
The greatest and
sTRANGEsT PERyERsIoN
of the act of Congress, however, Is the act OF
some person In some subordinate position,
who manipulated 1t In It's last travels, and
who took the liberty of changing the time
when some of the internal revenue reductions
20 into operation from July to August, 10
which change some great speculatlons seem
to be involved.
THE POOR CIGAR MANUFACTURERS
have been very badly Treated In the act-it
may or may not BIZ the design OF somebody,
for certainly Congress never Intended 10
throw the whole cigar manufacturing Of the
into great monopolles here, as the
act does, to the destruction of all the small
cigar manufacturers.