Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1885-09-08
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CUSTOMS


From what can be gathered from par
ties intimately connected with the Ad-
ministration, the following are the views
OF the President and Cabinet upon the
subject of tariff revision:
First. The reduction of the revenue
st least $50, 1000, 900 and perhaps S40,.
600, 900.
Second. The reduction Of the rates OF
duty in accordance with this.
Third. Intense anxiety to revive the
dropping industries of the country.
How 10 effect this puzzles the most
astute. The representatives Of the in.
dustrial pursuits, embracing iron and
steel, wool growing and manufacturing,
manufacturing of textile machinery,
chemical manufacturing, silk and paper
making, etc., in their replies to the
Treasury Department, have frankly told
the Secretary that they cannot, under
the existing condition of business and the
amount Of profit arising therefrom. SUBJ
NIT to any reduction of duties. They,
furthermore, claim that any lowering or
simple reduction OF the present rates Of
duty would, instead of reducing the rev.
enue, increase it.
The manufacturers take strong ground
against anything approaching a Revenue
tariff, but the representatives of every
important industry ought by this time
TO be in 3 position to show what, if any.
thing, ought to be done. under the pres
emit condition of affairs, in the way of a
tariff revision.
Should the Administration be con.
WINGED that q bill reducing duties all
round would fail of support, it is said by
those who know that q bill looking to
making raw material and food products
free will be proposed. 1t has been stated
by prominent officials that the duties now
levied on raw sugar may be so modified
as to cause a reduction of the revenue
from this one source Of S5,000,0 00, and,
moreover, that the sugar men have prac-
tically consented to this. Il is not,
therefore, improbable that a direct at
tack will be made on the tariff in the
direction of raw material and food pro
ducts, including q reduction of either
So. 200. 900 OF $40. 900. 900 on sugar. Ger
tain Democratic papers are advocating a
revision of this sort, and some Of them
are already committed on the items
which it is proposed to put on the free
list.
Should the sugar men be willing to
stand a S.. 600, 600 reduction it ia not i'm,
probable that they may have to stand
nearly $40, 600. 900, which, should wool
be put on the free list, viii bring up the
reduction to the minimum amount. $50,
100000. 1t will be urged that this form
of reduction will have the effect of reviv'
ing the dropping industries of the coun'
try, because it makes absolutely free i'm
portant raw material aud food products.
The manufacturers will in many cases be
appealed to on the n side and the
workingmen on the other.
This proposition, which is gaining the
support OF many Democratic journals,
will most largely affect the States of New
York. Delaware, Maryland, Louisiana,
Virginia, Georgia. Florida and the States
of the Pacific Coast. The orange and
lemon growers OF Florida and California
would be brought into direct COMPETE
ton with the people of the Mediterra'
mean. The removal of the duty upon
rice would interest South Carolina and
Georgia and bring them into direct CON-
petition with the cheap labor of eastern
countries. It is. however, thought that
the success of the great economic prin.
ciples, for which the Southern people are
~contending, will allay all opposition from
that quarter, and that a Measure looking
to the freeing of raw material and food
products from what are termed taxes,
will be ioyfully heralded irrespective OF
locality. Should the proposal for free
wool be successful-and this has been
particularly urged-of course, the States
of Ohio and Pennsylvania and certain
localities of the Pacific Coast will be the
greatest sufferers.