Morning journal and courier., 1882-08-17
NEW JERSEY.

Pleas Before the Tariff Com mission.
 LONG BRANCH, Aug. 16.-The tariff con- mission heard arguments this morning from Edward Sherer, chemist in charge of the United States Laboratory at New York, in favor of retaining the Dutch standard of color in assessing the duties on sugar, with supplemental authority to the Treasury de- partment to resort to the test of the polari- scope or other chemical analysis in cases of supposed artificial discoloration also, by Gustav Schwab, of New York, incidentally on the same subject, but principally on the sub
 ect of wool. A statement by him that he would advocate free wool, except that such an argument would not be acceptable to the commission, was resented by MT. Kenner, who said that there was no authority for any such intimation. The commission was will ing to hear free trade as we'll protection arguments. Mir. Schwab protested that he meant nothing offensive, but that his expert
 ence before Congressional committees con vinced him of the uselessness of arguing for free wool. The morning session was closed by an argument from George w. Weikel of Philadelphia in favor of the existing tariff rates on spices.
 { At the afternoon session letters were read from D. Landreth X Son, of Philadelphia urging that the duty on garden seeds be ad- vanced to 100 per cent. and from the Der muda Ochre company, of Virginia, protest | ing against reducing the tariff ochrey earths. w. B. Hoyt. assistant appraiser at New York, pointed out the inconsistencies
 and incongruities in the tariff relating to 1 worsteds, dress goods, artificial flowers, knit | goods, etc. He thought the tariff could be l sir nr,lIf iA0 NV al ma fac tur
 of fabrics composed partly of wool or worsted, the hair of the alpaca goat and other animals. An ad ua1orem l duty of from 70 to 75 per cent.
 would cover the present compound duties l and simplify the work of valuation. E. c.
 Lazur, examiner of gloves in the appraiser g office at New York, said the most equitable | and just duty on leather goods would be an
 ad 0alorene one providing proper safeguards
 could be thrown around their importation. He recommended the imposition of the fol
 lowing duties: On all gloves the foreign
 market value of which is less than ten or !! twelve dollars per dozen, specific duty of $l.50 per dozen and 20 per
 cent. 0d UaI0reno; on gloves of higher value
 per $2 25 dozen and 20 per cent. cd Valo1sna,
 and on all lined or fur trimmed gloves $3 per dozen and 20 per cent. ad o0t0rem The
 ad oalorem duties would be so small that 1 there would be no incentive for the under | valuation of invoices He was opposed to nome Valuation because It IS not stable. Inc 1 commissioners adjourned at 4:3O p. m., but | were called together again at to hear fur l ther testimony of New York exporters. M. l J. Corbit who Is in charge of the silk de partment in the appraisers otfice gave testi mony regarding various troublesome mat ters which came under his observation in the | department. He stated that the greatest difficulty was to obtain the market value of
 articles and to adjust the lines of mixed ma l terial. He suggested that the clause should be made 8 little broader and the duties fixed ] according to the principal materials in tho 1 goods, even if lesser general rate wal | charged. At 6:3O the commission adjourned The Epidemic at Seabright-GoVernmen ent | Mud Alleged as the Cause.
 l SEABRIGHT, Aug. 16.--Mr. Ormon Sickle | of Navesink, the son of George Sickles O
 Middletown, is down with typhoid fever con
 tracted while camping out on the banks o
 the Shrewsbury river north of the Hote Bellevue grounds. His friends believe tha
 he contracted the maady because of tn,
 marshy meadows along the river front whicl
 are being filled up with mud dug out of th
 Shrewsbury river by the government dredge
 at work on the river Improvements. Man
 people think this IS the solution of the out
 break of typhoid at the Hotel Bellevue Tn
 site on which the Bellevue and most of Ses
 bottom of the river and after ward top soileG Watchman Hale and Greene the bathin master, who are ill with the fever at the Be
 levue 1t is said, were attacked with malari early in the spring before the hotel opened Mrs Lew and Mrs. Andrews are rapidIv rs