The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-04-16

Iho debate was confined strictly Il
legal aspects.
| The Senate then adjourned.
HOUSE.
Washington, 15.-Morrison movet
that the House go into COMMITTEES
of the whole for consideration of TIT
tariff bill. There was no division
and the matter was agreed to, Cox
of New York, being called to ths
chair.
Immediately upon the committee
assembling, Elton objected to the
consideration Of the bill, and the OBJ.
LECTION was reported to the House.
By vote o! lao yeas AMI 1873 nays
the com mittee decided to consider
the measure.
The year go was time Of plenty.
the laborer for wages was at least as
we'll, and the grower of grain better
paid than they are In this year 1884,
and in that year 1850 Of bounteous
plenty, our importatious of foreign
goods were less to the person or in
proportion to the population than
in the years 1880 and 1882. To the
list of articles now imported free of
duty, amounting to nearly one third
Of all our importations, it is
proposed to add salt, wood, coal and
lumber. Salt is always freed from
tax for fishermen, also for exported
meats; to lessen the cost of food to
people Of other countries, not for
our own. Coal is untsxed fer use
of vessels having by law an ex-
elusive right to the coasting trade,
or engaged in the foreign carrying
trade, privilege denied to persons
in o.her pursuits. The
revenue from wood and lumber in~
ported and hereafter TO be admitted
free Of duty, has in ten years past
not much exceeded S10,001,00O. Gen.
sus returns show the domestic wood
products IN excess Of $4,000, 1000
per snnum. If the average duty of
20 per cent. on imported wood adds
bat 10 per cent. to the price of that
produced here, its increased cost to
to the people has been S5OO,0OO,0O0
in ten years. In these ten years
under the pretence of taxing their
article to secure 100000 revenue,
we have compelled the people TO
pay $500, 100000 in bounty
to encourage the destruction
Of forests and the telling |
Of trees, and in the same time we
have given more than 100000 |
acres OF land under the timber Gull
ture act as bounty to encourage the
of other trees and other
forests. In estimates made by @ |
clerk experienced in the bureau of
which actual payments on
show to be but esti.
mates based on official data the bill
would leave, it appears, in cottons
tut two articles, cotton yarns not
inest dutiable above 40 per cent; In
yoolens, but one, coarse carpet
WOOL, which we do not produce
'bove go per cent, and in iron and
teel but few above so per cent.
These rates have been fixed as the
INIT above which on these articles
10 duty shall be collected. The [
resent rate on the finest cotton is
O per cent, and yet il is an unques.
Toned fact, as shown by invoices
nd payments made, that duties ex-
eeding 100 per cent. (not exceeding II
rst cost) are eXacted and paid
n cotton goods, the duty upon !
which is in the estimate referred to, II
fokad ~ ho Loco than on v,ar. oav,& Il :
he same Ia true of iron and steel t
q a different degree. In the woolen
cheduls these abuses are most I
laring. In all they result from a
normities hidden and concealed
9th in classification Of articles and {
ates of duty. The limit 40, so and +
D per cent. on cotton, metal, and I
7oolen schedules, is intended to ex- @
ose and remedy these hidden enor. 7
lities.
II the protection theory is to be t
ne continued policy of government, 7
will be and ought to be, entrusted 4
, It's friends. the Republican party. @
very argument in support of pro- !
,ctive policy is based on the as. @
lmption that any considerable 4
riff modification, especially modi. v
cation to a revenue basis, will de- q
roy manufacturing industries, C
)mpel the abandonment of shops, Z
nd mills, and force those now en- f
aged il them into other employ 7
tents. This ia the old, old, a
ory. 1t was told of mannfactur- C
u Industries in their infancy; it p
ill be told when protection brings q
lem to decay. Eight years ago I p
the first bill for free v
linine, and providing for untaxed c
cohol for use In making it. At I
ice 1t was asserted that quinine v
aking would become a lost art q
nong us II such q bill should n
sse, and 1t did not then pass. Later v