Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-04-12
The Tarim.


WASHINGTON, April ll,-Chairman
Morrison and Mr.. Hewitt of the commit.
tee on ways and means completed the
report OF the maiorityo OF that committee
to accompany the tariff bill, which will
be reported to the house tomorrow.
The report reads as follows: "The rate
of duty or tax on imported goods subject
to duty is as low as 8 on some and higher
than 20 per cent. on others. The average
rate for the fiscal year 1885 little ex.
ceeded AZ per cent, or SAT of tax on
500 worth of imported goods
This is the highest rate paid in any
year since 1868, and about the average
rate of the war period, from 1862 to 1868
After quoting from the messages oil
Presidents Arthur and Cleveland, setting
forth the necessity Of tariff revision, the
| report continues; "The treasury receipts
for the fiscal year lSS5 were 1898, 600, 70s. :.
3S. The increased receipts from customs
and internal taxes, the principal sources
of revenue for the months of the fiscal
year 1856 already past, over the accounts
of the same months OF last
year, Justify the estimate of receipts
for the present fiscal year will exceed
! $685., 900, 600, nor may our annual IT.
ury receipts be expected again to fall be.
low that sum without reduced taxation,
lnasmuch as these receipts result chiefly
from taxes on articles Of necessity and
comfort to be consumed in continually
increasing quantities with our eyer-grow-
ing population,
The expenditures for the fiscal year
| 1885, including pensions and the legal re-
quirements OF the public debt, were
S305, $50, 97054, and neither the actual
needs of an economical ad-
ministration of the government
nor the patriotic expectations Of the peo.
pie Justify any increase OF this enormous
annual surplus TO exceed SS0,000,000
The reductions to result from the pro-
posed bill are within this estimated sur
plus and little exceed S24, 900, 600, on the
basis of last years importations."
Reference is made 10 Secretary Man
ning's views as expressed in his first
annual report touching the III effects of
the maintenance Of war duties, pointing
out the inequalities of the presentlaw and
favorlng the admission, free OF duty, of
raw materials, OF which the report says:
''These views OF Secretary Manning as 10
the existing condition OF the customs
service and tariff taxation are not parti-
Edu, Dul arc III dJAOth nibA liz WINS
pressed on congress by his predecessors,
Secretaries Folger and McCulloch."
It is the purpose Of the bill reported
to correct some of the classidcations, rid
the custom laws Of complica-
tions Of which the secretary
complains, and so change these
laws far better than they win be capable
OF being administered with impartlality TO
all our merchants.
Duties intended TO be removed by the
bill are chiefly those which tax articles
used by our own manufacturers which
now subject them 70 hopeless COMPETE
ton at home and abroad with manufac-
turing nations, none OF which taxes such
materials.
That our own manufacturers may sue
cessfuIly compete both at home
and abroad with manufacturing ma
lions which do not tax such materials,
thus securing markets for the products Of
hands now idle for want OF work to do,
some Of the materials upon which the
great industries are built, such as wood,
salt, hemp and wool, are placed on the
free list. When, at the beginning revenue
was found necessary 10 our railroad ex-
istence, wool with everything imported