Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-19
TARIFF REVISION.
The Commission Working Well Together
and Making Satisfactory Progress
in Their Work.
A New Southern Industry - Immense
Development In the Manufacture of
Cotton.Seed and its Products.

LONG BRANCH, August IS.-The tariff
! commissioners have DOW been in session
| three weeks. They hold two sessions a day,
and at the executive session in the morning
| il is understood th at the commissioners have
| a full discussion of all the testimony of the
| previous afternoon. For this reason they
| say that they will be in position 10 make
| a full report in very brief period alter the
testimony is all Uncertainty in time to pre-
sent il at the meeting of Congress in Deem
Der. The trend of the testimony 30 far has
been almost entirely in favor of even a gen.
eral increase in the present tariff. As to the
general progress made by the commission
Commissioner Porter said day or two ago
that it had decided upon a course of action,
and that it had distinctive, objective point
in view and was making straight for it. He
was satisfied with the progress. The i'm
preston that the Tariff Commission was q
junketing committee, as had been charged,
was simply grotesque to those informed of
the actual amount of work done.
"There have been about sixty witnesses
examined by the commission" he said
"since the 18th of July. The subjects on
which we have taken testimony are nickel,
drugs and chemicals, aniline dyes, importa-
ton of crude materials, foreign publications,
spinning machinery, fax, hemp and iute,
Carriages, quinine, dry goods imports, must
statuary, hatters' plush, sulphur ore, Ameri-
can and European labor, gold-leaf, paints
and oil, linens, floor oilcloths, saddlery
hardware, cutlery, and palm oil in bottles"
"These are very important matters, but
how about the great industries, as, for exam
pie, cotton, silk, iron, steel, etc?"
"You see," was the prompt reply, shat
hundreds of other persons-experts in the
several branches of industry-in all parts OF
IL. L. hr,ot
important and valuable statements bearing
on all these points, and hence the delay in
presenting the facts to the commission. These
industries have their work we'll in hand, and
no time will be lost in receiving the testi-
mony. In the meantime the com mittee work
and the careful study and examination of
the schedule of the tariff is being pushed for
ward vigorously"
"Do the commission work together well?"
Admirably. Every member has but one
aim-the simplifcation and establishment of
the tariff on a scientific basis and with
justice to all industries and to this each one
brings special qualifications. Moreover,
each member has, in nay judgment, exhibited
an enthusiasm for the work which most GER
taiuly prophecies success. The adverse
criticism, If it has any effect at all, simply
acts as a sort of gentle irritant and can only
spur US on to better work. The fact ia we
did not feel at full liberty to push our work
until Congress had adjourned and left us foot
loose, as it were. Since the adjournment we
have gone at the work with renewed energy
and earnestness, and the progress has been
marked"
NEW INDUSTRY IN THE SOUTH.
Speaking of the new era of prosperity for
the South, Commissioner Kenner, of Louis
lana, said: 81 M ade the prediction five years
ago, and the present state OF the business JUS
oil and other products from cotton-seed wouId
within twenty-five wears bring from pne-
fourth to one.third to The South of what our
section then got from, the .tanIe itseIfD
uAnd that means how n,nch increase in
vonr rsvsnnasg
SProbably moi less than 500 DOC. 900. The
business has entirely grown up since the war
and IT is within the past ten wears that il has
attained snv imnoria nca There are NOW
,ixty-fiye or seventy mills in operation or
being erected. and the progress and profits
IF the manufacture are really astonisbipe. /
When the chief mill in New Orleans was es- |
ablisbed some ten wears AGO we maid but |
rom 81 to $40 a ton for the seed. Last |
year we were Obliged to nav from SIG to $40 |
, ion. At first we could get such sunplv as
We wanted along the water courses. and the |
Transportation cost but little. The demand
,as crown 10 snch nronortions that we must
low 90 into tha interior. and the difference
n he cost Of oatting The GOOD 10 msrLst
y .tss the d;tTersnce in the nr;ce to nsn
aWbv do Won th;nk the nrodnct will syar
.onsi - vol1e ona-,b;rd If The cotton cror
,1asif2n o' 'i" VI '--' No''oA 0,op
's ssE - oo,,or-Aon ,,o,,s
here are 1s0O nonnJs Of seed The snnn.I
otton cron ampunts to abant q GOO 0a0 bsIes
vh;cb World Weld alter ressrvino he necssl
srv seed for pIantino next wear, abont
400 600 tons Of cotton.seed This seed If
!, !, onnfac,nrod int oil o;Ic.te ond o,bor
,rodnc,S would y;e1d i, vaIna NOT less than
* 900 zoo ~ nroh.hir S1o0 400 oo0 -
o oSWhst s,s tbesa nroJncts %
UAu of this seed bb.fore The war with tho
rcenI;on of that nsed for nIanting WIS
hrorn awav W. now hnv ali H., 20 oa,
=, with ;ncrsassd facilities ~ trar"ror,a
; ;or narna;,t;no ,ha nIantsrs r. shir, the;r
ed r. The mills the entire cron will he
ItiIized because the nrofits If The mannfac-
ure with the price at moi more Than 500
on delivered at the mill. will induce the ex-
"a nsion of The business until the whole cron