New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-08-18
THE TARIFF COMMISSION.
DISCUSSING THE SILK INTEREST.
SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES
THE DUTY on HAY.

SUGGESTIONS RECEIVED FROM VARIOUS oOShSA'-
THE DUTY on HAY.
LONG BRANCH, Aug. 1.-The first witness
before the Tariff Commission this morning William
Kent. Assistant Appraiser In the New-YOrk Custom
House, in the silk department. He went over the sew
eal items in the silk tariff relating his experiences in
connection with their importation and assessment aud
giving his recommendations to the rate Of duty which
should be imposed upon them The silkworms eggs,
oocoons etc. should remain on the free list
silk partly manufactured by carding combing from
silk waste was provided for in the tariff. and he
had assessed IT at go per silk otherwise
provided for" He suggested for It duty NJ about two
dfths that which might be imposed silk yarn
That paid 81 per cent II That rate was continued
he would suggest ID pCr cent for tins Otner article As
silk rags the refuse OF miners cuttings they had also
been clissed " silk otherwise provided for and
charged 80 per cent He recommended duty OF 10 per
it. For hatters' plush and lni e whehnow paid
60 per cent, he recommended a duty Of 20 per cent
Hatters' plush was made in TINS country
As to silk tram. orcalzne sewing silk, and yarns
and threads OF silk of every description, be recon-
meDded that they put te free list There had not
been 500 pounds of SILK Imported IN eight years
As TO silk wells and worsted yeis silk and other laces
emboideres of silk and other materials, womens anu
child ems dress trimmings, wearing apparel and cloth
ing ready made partly made these sond all pay one
of duty That there should be distinction be-
a-sIlk and party-sIk materials Az to silk vel
he recommended that velvet containing some cotton
should be dutlable 40 substantially silk velvet Ia this
matter he would have to depart from his favorte theory
Of an adj valorem duty, and he would sug-
gest pound-rate duty The value OF Six
judged By rhe POM iweght. AS to sk-and-
should pay smother rate Of duty pound
As to black silks, duty upon them now, he said.
ranged from 40 per cent 70 200 he would suggest %
per pound and Is pr adj yaorcih simple pound
o silk particularly those used trimming dresses.
Bul mod Of duty pound, VIA slight al
silks imported. lie assumed that the foreign
SIX manufacturers " uid adapt themselves 10 I-e
cuange the tarin aud would weight their silks very
mucn less -tiil the natural de wouid increase tue
weight The six Assoclau IA would DO De.ore Tue com
MISSION. and wuuli ab,edlY claim mat SILK goods
did lot pay higher average duty thAh Az or ~ ler
Bu, that va. no. 80. INC advance made on Inc
values OF silks tnld division Uf the New
York Custom House Tor 1879 amounted 10 S9i9OoO tue
the amount va, ! 900 In 1851 $4,000,
aud .OIts So tAe amount Was eo4l,OOO
Ins statement would snO" Gle fiacy oi cue assertion
that passed through the custom House
average }. Al or "a per cent Ills judgment was
tnat The alA nanuiac oi TINS couny were on an
extreme nrm todnual i'm. Iney were all making
lany VI them nd Occ 'ulo ca my, ahd man!
Of tnem We AMY he Thought that me duty On
silk goods might b. REDUCED lie "0utd nave suheeut
pro. g,yru nOWeycr, % tIc nantac IRE Ok SILK
mixed goods, wnicn mad Dcen recently s,arV,d In TINS
country.
New York, nt l0a.ng copies o. pLHPnlel Writseh Oy
nlm aud published oy -e Free AraIe League Oh New
Ioik.
\ communication wa read from A Remington, i'm
port eXpOrt merchant, OF NJ 40 Broad way, Ne$-
lOrk, rauicting certain stieIne d. male D. orc he
Commission some days since Dy fhuddep"la mahu-
| f.Cturcr OF en.tueIleI ID
A communication from the Pacific Mail steamship
COnpaus Inqunlhg Mucthct t"cIc "1s ahS piuDD'htt
aeion looking tO reduction OF the 1uty on WOOL was
! several communications were received from mer-
chants a-kn That red n duiies should DC made
| OH various articles now paying MA ra.ee.
In the afternoon sUe -lVn william 1. kice, or New
York ueaern haJ made argument III aEOr Of taking
on lnc ditt, OF ~ per ccul Oh udt.
IA. RE. OF New-York, 4Jpeared in the same
tcre,t. bat saed re- y CIiect question mat he
was ouy a % iddlcn.!u a-d 4sking removal Of
tine Ouiy nay
David &C. SURGE, OF tine Appraisers Department Of
tue New OK Custom House, having charge OF the
division comprising Wines, cIgdrs sthtry FUR
uiJure a. 10 Tue dutes On such
articles. uOt, sad, many iucOu
Ia lis oivisIOu Otucrs Out sI there "A
good many. lie Recommended uniformity Ia the rate VI
duties as prscIctJlc
A Shor, statement a. TO fruits was made by A. L.
smith, OF the New York Custom HOUSE.