New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-04-30

| in the Senate by Senator B'ck, prompted, as NC
| appeared 10 admit by Mr. Carlisle, OF the
| House, and the Senator ennVeheu Wv
| debate 10y familiar extracts from ,i'
own former speeches and oy h,'
usual spasmodic chest eesiculations' lie was ioi,
lowed by Senator Bayard IN a written speeon' al"
the Senator is worth listening tOwhether thero 10.
not a bee in his bonnet in spite of some Complain
on his side OF the Senate that he speaks Oh pm"
high over their heads. But no such Complain We
! ever made about the Senator from Norm C"io'u"'
who closed the debate for the free trane sue VI VIC
Senate with less of his peculiar oratory tnan was
10 be ex pected These speeches were niehiy pio'o
catIve of some reply, as had been many otheIs uus
the Irogress of the bill but from the outset d Noto
WAS held TO be more important than any argument
| The bill passed the Senate by one MAJORITY o"iS'
as two NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Cameron, OF roh"-
| svlyapia and VanWyck of Nebraska-voted against
| IL. while only one Democrat-Senator McfheiSor'
| of New -Jersev-voted for it. Senator oHeTn'dh'
who declined to sign the conference report anu N"o
hed voted against adding a revision of the tarlh TO
| the pending bill 10 reduce taxation huaily Voted
for the bill If there had not been so fierce and
nortisan a denuncIation of the report the whole
measure, it is most likely. would have been de-
| feated as only one vote to that end was lacking.
| "1he bill has become the law of the land. and
few will dispute that the shape which it assumed IN
| the Committee of Conference was better than whaI
was reported from the Senate Committee on Finance
OF than what sent by the Senate 10 TIE House
! No such 60 through the ordeal oil legs-
| lative bodies without mperfeciOns but it's nearly
| certain that nothing more perfect VIII soon ne
produced by House of 1926 members, and twenty
| years may eapse before the country will have
anything more satisfactory. popular assembly
| will always pay more heed to the voice of their
constituents than to the symmetrical formulas OF
| science OF to the wishes of any leader.
| THE DUTY ON WOOL AND wooLLRNs.
| "Senator Sherman appears to complain that the
reduction of the duty woods IS greater than that
upon woollens. | think this is an error and that
| the general reduction on wOOllens Is larger per-
centage and ten fold greater in the aggregate The
| specific duty of 10 and ~ cents per pound is
| the only Trustworthy protection the wool-growcr
ever bad or can have. and that is still to remain
the same; while the highest rate OF II cents per
| pound will hereafter apply to woods valued at over
| 80 cents instead of 80 cents per pound. The
former additional ad valoren rate of IL and 10 per
| cent W as abandoned on the recommendation oil the
| Tariff Commission, whose report Senator Sherman
| pronounces and most properly, admirable : and
| the chairman of that Commission. Mr.. Hayes,
has long been the efficient and consistent advocate
| of duties upon woods, ns well rs upon wooliens'
while Mr. Garland. Of Illinois, the president OF the
| Wool Growers Association, was also IA member OF
| the Commission, who could not fail to look after
wool intelligenty and be concurTrd in their report
That il had received Just and proper consideration
| was never questioned until the bill had been IN the
| Senate for weeks The Senator IS evidently mis-
taken IN his calculation, and fOrgets ina the duiles
mon all inland charges and commissions on wOollen
| goods a very material item, have h3en removed
! while wool suffers such reduction. as such
| how bean
schedule of the Tariff Commission, not being pre-
| cissly like the old law, makes an accurate compar-
| ison work of some difficulty, but | have large
| number of examples furnished to me by experts IN
| the trade which show in almost every instance
| that the reductions much greater upon w0ollens
| than upon wool | would give you these at
| length ii they were not so bulky ANY tarii
| on wool would be of value whatever
unless followed by an ample duty on wooiiens.
The specific duty which remains on wool
OF 10 or - cents n ponnd applies wholly TO I'M
washed wool. which, If washed, is doubled, aud If
secured trebled With the duty OF o cents on
washed Cape and Buenos Ayrcs woos costing from
II cents TO Is cents per pound, the average rate
will be from 81 10 over 70 per cent These are the
| woods which would compete with the woods of Texas
and California.
| DUTIES ALMOST PRoHIBTTORY.
| 1.-THE fact 49, the duties up0n No clothing woods
have been almost prohibi DRY, and the change made
will practically hardly be paro,p.ible. II a less
price shoud follow il will arise from a larger I'M
portation Of wool in the form of manufactures. or
from increasing home competition among wool
Growers that is to say, from the constant increase
of production under protective tariff, such as that
exhibited from 1860 to 1880. or an increase
from 6O,OOOO 600 pounds TO 24O,0000o0 pounds.
The value of all the woods imported not including
carpet wools was only about 100000 but the
value of imported wOollen manufactures. moi III
Guiding carpets. was not less than $50, O00.OOO
an a review of the wool trade The Boston Herald
| had the following paragraph:
II the ta If Dill passes which already gone through
the senate. the condition will be 80 Inucn the worse,
since tue woods light shrnkage are so discriini'
mated against in that bill that they cannot no i'm
Eject ban ma increasing the cost OF ne woos TO the
manufacturers in this country.
THE GREAT ERROR OF PRoTECTIONIsTs.
"The great error of those who favor protective
tariff is that they sometimes ask too mucn and. II
, that 10 granted, they have TO meet not only too
, much nome competition hit also well. grounded OPP
position. because the rates excessive The same
rate of in crease in the production Of American wool
that we have had in the past will before another de-
) | cade mach more than supply tbs domestic de-
| msnd and the excess must then find a market
, | abroad The present compound duties on clothing
/ woos equal to a rate OF over % per cent al
valorem; and the law which goes into effect on
July will still leave the rate at Al per cent.
, Very few domestic productions have as much-this
being above the average OF all dut'abe articles
aud do not think any discreet friend of sheep nus
bandry would mako himself conspicuous by asking
) for more and thereby run the risk OF losing all
, All Republicans now willingly concede what for
mora than twenty-five years have con tended for
very liberal protection to wool but tho cents more
proposed In the Senate, being unreasonable. was
voted down by forty nays to twenty yeas No con
fereoce committee could have been justified III
Q wholly disIecarlng "a vote 80 decisive as that
"The leader of the Democratic party in the Sen