New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-12-05

The products OF the manufacturers IN tins coun-
try protected by the metal schedule represent IN
value over 1904 100000 or $l50O00,OOO
more than the entire imports of duti
able merchandise of all kinds his
schedule, the Commission gays, has probably gwen
rse-to more serious controversy than any other sec
ton of the present law because OF IT'S antiquities
ard Inconsistencies he following are the salient
points OF the Conn issions acton in relation
10 the metal schedule The report says that fhc
country and trade have OutgrOwn the legislation
Oi eighteen years ago. New processes new terms,
new ar'ic.es, are now IN existence. and IN no part
Of tie tanlt law Is REVISION nOrc necessary than ID
this schedule. The anomaly the TIM ,hed article
bearing only half the duty levied on the ma erlal
out of which II ~ made ~ one instance OF the hu-
neT0us Inconsistencies Many Of the articles emu
uer;itrd in his schedule have become obsolete, anh
tier places have been token by substitutes OF bet
ter material, and the, nomenclature has been
changed No Inc Of demarcat!on ct" cen IRON ailu
slcFl Is now fixed by law. DECISIONS OF treasury
officials or the Courts have undOubi-
cdly reversed the intentions Of the fran
ers OF the existing tarf On nearly the same dates
appr1iseneuts at din rent ports have been made 80
VIA ~ At variance az TO ser Ous.y involve tue lor-
tunes of some Of oar business houses Our courts
arc blocked with lnnunrrahle cases ARISING rom
custom DECISIONS. ana Htlgatlun seems 10 ne Nv"
ural sequence To import ton 1hr term noi0sS ana
general provisions OF The law are entirely ih1ppu-
cable to the trade and commerce of the present Gay.
All these causes. and many others suggested III te
testimony. in the judgment of the Commission make
a revision of this scnedule imperative. The testi-
mony O tue Treasury officials, im pOrters ana manu-
fac urers has shown that III nothing has there been
greater trouble or more mscOnccption IN regari 10
classification than IN iron and steel The Culnnls-
sion has therefore aimed to formulate a schedule
Whlch VIII be UNIFORM n = rates, from the cTudo
na erlal 10 the most highly finished articles when
Is careful and exact III lis wording: which Is mar
nODlOus in he relations tba the different articles
bear toward each other; and " hich has clauses OF
definition aud termination So drawn as 10 plecluue
the possibility OF tue recurrence of the troubles De-
tween the Government and Importers that have o.
CURED during he past fifteen years Tie COmmlsc
SION recommends IN his schedule the abolition Oh
compound and the adoption as far possible Oh
specific duties Also That the rates iron aud steer
be IN the main concurrent that Is to say, so tnht
the rates on manufactures OF common Bessenlor
steel shall be the those on slmIIar art cles
when made Of IRON. J. e numerous d. csions of the
Treasury Department have been exam ned, and tho
changes proposed are III conformity with the spllI
OF the law as al present administered.
No radical change IN thA cNibtiIg duty on iron
ore is prOpOs Il. The Commission recommends
specinc rate of fifty cents per ton, ius cad OF tue
present rate Of twenty per centum ad valOrenL Inc
Comm ssIOn recommends that Pig iron and all
kinds OF scraplroD be classified at the same rate OF
duty. viz: thIee-tenths OF one cent per pound III
is believed by the COMMISSION that fur, her re-
ductlOn of the duty on pig iron than that rec
commended would result disastrously TO that I'M,
portant industry. The large amount imported
last year, 900 1872 tOns, about 0De-eighth OF our
total consumption. shows that the present duty Is