Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1888-10-05
Period.
THE WOOL QUESTION.


The report then takes up the wool question and
discusses IL at length saying that In selecting this
branch OF industry for the radical changes the
free-trade theories inforce the President and his
party make IL manifest that they accept these
theories, and intend to put the AK TO the root OF
the protective system The majority call the
Mills bill sectional alleging that IL discrmnates
section by retaining high duties On the products or
that SectiOn-sugar and rce-and by removing
duties from eottoG-ties, oagging and other articles
report, that section contains but IN per cent OF
the Industries 10 be crippled or destroyed
THE BLOW AT PROTECTION IN THE MILLS BILL
The majority contend that the percentage OF re-
duction under the Mills bill, leaving out sugar, is
4937 per cent, and that instead OF retaining an
average ad valorem rate OF A. 70 per cent IL oud
retain only 22.5, per cent. The majority report
continues: "rhe alleged conservative character OF
the House bill disappears under the examination
and We md that the average reductions it
would produce are more than twice as great
any which have heretofore been proposed
by the most courageous revenue reforIner"
Further, IL charges that II all protected articles
placed on the free list and ali protected indus
trles destroyed, and duties maintained at present
rates on tobacco silks wines, liquors and sugar.
the average ad valorem rate would be q. 81 per
cent. and, the report says, spy this wonderful
mathematical process OF ascertaining the extent
Of protection By the average ad valorem rate we
should md that the nearer We approach free trade
the greater would be the degree OF protection az
fOr1ed our Industries. The assurance that a high
average al valorem duty was preserved would
wOrkingmen whose industries were destroyed by
the removal OF duties"
ALCOHOL IN THE ARTS.
The provisions OF the substitute which allow the
use Of alcohol In the Industrial arts free from
taxation would prove OF great benefit 10 a large
number or important manufactures. Alcohol Is
used IN the production OF more than 500 chemical
and pharmaceutical preparations and In many of
the mechanical and Industrial arts, and It's use In
the onerous TAX should be abolished the heavy
TAX upon alcohol unnecessarily increases the price
OF many manufactured products, with no CORE
spending benent except the resulting revenue
which Is now unnecessary.
On the subject OF the internal revenue the re-
port says they considered the repeal OF the entire
internal revenue system, but deemed that course
at present impractIcabie and unwlse for the rea-
main, and dairy products should be proIected
from fraudulent limitations
The republican majority in conclusion ex-
press regret that they have been deprived OF the
services OF senator morrill, In framing tarin bill
The Minority Report.
The minority report Is signed by senators Har-
rs Vance, and voorhees,, and Senator Mcpherson
ACIDS the following: 81 concur In the report. in
d0rsng the House bill In respect TO articles placed
on the free list, out desire some modification TO
the dutiable list" The minority, at the outset
complain OF the short time allowed them for ne
consideration OF the subject BY the majority say
fng in the preparation OF the substitute for the
House bill no member OF the minority OF the COM
mitee was consulted Uniformed as toits provisions
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18th OF september. 1855"
The BILLS COMPARED
The essential difference between the House bill
and the senate substitute" say the minority. us
apparent and radical at the outset In the matter
OF revenue. The one Is framed in the int rest OF
prrrdte pockets The one Is framed In the interest
Of the whole people, the other In the interest OF
$1,000 $1,000 nanHiacIurerS The one is designed TO
the taxation especially which bears heaviest on
the necessaries OF life; the other Is Int ended to
raise pubic revenue, indeed, but TO maintain
private revenues by increasing ana retaIn-
Ing taxation on all the necessaries OF life
ine advocates OF the substitute freely propose
70 REDUCE duties or abolish them on those things
which yield only Government revenue but
refuse 70 reduce or abolish duties those things
ayowed, and Is defended on tine ground int n n
AL for labor. When It Is remembered that the
s az .arin duty on an manufactured goods Is
per cent, and the average share OF labor therein
Is q per cent lt viii be seen that their love for
the nottingham Is based on the other % per cent
than nall OF the bonus which the law gives the
norkingman they can well AFFORD TO love him; and
that love Will continue unabated until he Insists
on having all the Law gives him.
KKDucrIoSs BIZ THE SENATE
The minority assert that the chief reductions in
the tarin proposed by the senate bill are confined
70 sugar and rice, with Jute and few other unim-
portant articles nut on the free list. while an In
crease OF duties Is proposed on the manufactures
OF cotton, wool, iron, and steel articles that the
whole people, and especially the poor are COM
peneo 10 use; That practically the Senate bill
oners the people Tree whisky and free tobacco
leaving all the expensive machinery for the COZ
lection OF revenue and enforcement OF the law m full
forces while II Increases taxation upon actuaI ana
Indispensable necessarfes OF life The increasin0
surplus and the dangers VI such accummuiatiosa
are adverted To-
fHs TAX on STEEL RAILS, ETC
Taxing the subject OF steel rails the duty ON
which the Senate bill nxes az sl5ss per ton the
minority say that the labor cost or wages On
ton o. rails . t42S that the senate bin imposes
burden o. e11-43 above that. This bur,itn the
report say4 Is laid upon the transportation OF the
country on It's foreign trade, measured BY the
amount Of duty collected; but where Il Is trans
fefred 20 our internal commerce the burden ia
measured BY every pound OF rails over which AZ
has 20 pass and ultimately tails with crushing
weight upon the agricuitursrs, whose bulky pro-
ducts must seek . foreign market over these tax
laden ROADS and In foreign ships; ana when these
Eore1an MARKETS are reached these products must
compete with the pauper products OF the cheapest
labor % b found anywhere under the sun. the