The Dillon tribune., 1882-12-23
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WASHINGTON LETTER.
[From our regular Correspondent

"SAA NoiON, -. ~, Dec. 10th, 1889.
Although tn. thermo meter has been
skipping about In the vicinity of zero 70,
several days, the members of the third
mouse AZ the lobby Is termed, are pouring
into the city, loaded down with-all kinds
OF arguments upon the question of revenue
taxes and tariff The whisky men, tobacco
dealers, the patent medicine martyrs and
bankers are here urging the abolition Of
the revenue tax, while the iron and steel
manufacturers and sugar refiners and i'm.
porters are cooperating with them in order
to prevent any reduction in the present
tariff on the latter articles.
The railroad companies which were
granted many millions Of acres of land to
aid In the construction Of their roads, many
OF which have never been completed and
others not even commenced, have their
agents here to prevent Congress declaring
their grants forfeited, and the lands open to
entry by actual settlers.
The report Of the Tariff Commission is
generally commended-not in all its details,
but as whole. They precede the schedule
OF new tariff rates upon imported articles
BY saying among other things: "Early in
its deliberations the Commission became
convinced that substantial reduction of
tariff duties is demanded, not by mere in
discriminate popular clamor, but by the
best conservative opinion Of the country,
including that which has in former times
been most strenuous for the preservation
Of our national industrial defenses" They
60 on to say that excessive duties "encour-
age the investment OF capital in manufac-
turing enterprise bv rash and unskil illed
SPECTATORS, to be followed 0y disaster to
the adventures and their employees and a
PLETHORA Of commodities. It has been the
effort Of the Commission to make the reduc.
ton apply to commodities Of necessary gen-
eyai consumption, and to diminish Or with.
hold reduction Of tariff upon commodities
Of high cost, requiring more labor, and
which being consumed principally by the
more wealthy classes should bear higher
duties. With but few exceptions less re.
duction has been applied to the products Of
agriculture than to those Of the manufactur.
ing industries, for the reason that the for.
mer are less benefited than the latter BY
improvements In machinery and processes
The Commission recommend 4 retention
of the present duty on potteries, stoneware
and porcelain, and glassware, In order to
encourage that languishing industry In thi.
country. They think that radical reduc'
tion on pig iron. considering the wide ex
tent of It's manufacture in this country and
the present depressed condition Of the IN
dustry, would be neither wise nor polite
On steel rails, hoop band, and scroll iron
and iron In other forms, 4 slight reduction
Is recommended IN some and slight In
crease In others. On many miscellaneous
manufactures of metal \ reduction IL rec
commended, and rates upon copper, lead
zinc and other metals from Is to IS pc,
cent. The duties on woods are not changed
The rate ofreduction on sugar, proposes
In their schedule, is 71.7o per cent. on al
sugars below No. "a Dutch standard, a
tested by the polariscope, and 10 per cent
reduction on all sugars above No l3, or al
average reduction Of r4.25 on all the sugar
in the schedule. II this reduction Of tn
tariffo on sugars Ia adopted BY Congress,
! will reduce sugars now selling at 10 to
cents per pound to from 6 10 7 cents pc
pound. !,
On imported tobacco. no reduction Il
tariff duties Is recommended.
In their schedule Of Pyozrsiows they rec
ommend that the duties on all green fruit
imported, with the exception Of oranges
lemons, lines and grapes he either reduces
or that they he placed on the free list. an
that duty on dried fruits and other mtno
articles be reduced.
A very slight reduction on wools Of tn
first, second and third classes is recon
mended, but in consequence of the vas
manufacturing and agricultural interest
involved and the present rates and system
having been created since the war an
highly commended. hut very few change
in woods and woolen goods is srecommende.
The free list is enlarged, and the schedul
covers about every article of importatio
into this country. 80.
Senator Morrill, has introduced bill !
the Senate, to amend the tariff laws
which the recommendations of the Con-
mission were embodied.
I have given a somewhat detailed az
count of this tariff. as the producer Is some
what interested in his profits, and the cor
sumner in what he can save in the price.
The bill to reduce letter postage to tw
cents, 10 be reported favorably by Gener'
Bingham from Committee on Post Once
and Post Roads. has the general suppo
of members, and will become law.