Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1888-10-06

duction or repeal of protective duties, and
that tariff revision means simply that indls-
criminate cutting down of rates which en-
courages importations, benefits foreign manu-
facturers and produces free trade. The sub
stitute proposes TO reduce revenues, and at
the same time to preserve the American
system. 1t is based upon the idea that tariff
revision implies an equitable REIMBURSEMENT OF
duties in the interest and for the benefit OK
the people of the United States, and in the
distribution of rates its trainers have not
hesitated to erect or maintain defensive bar
riers which would carry confidence and COM
fort into American homes"
WASHINGTON, Oct 6-The following il
the gist of the document expressing the views
of the minority of the senate finance CON-
mittee on the tariff bill:
1.-THE essential difference between the house
bin and the senate substitute is apparent and
radical at the outset in the matter of revenue
The one is framed in the interest of the pub
lie treasury; the other in the interest OF pri-
vate pockets. The one is framed in the inter-
est of the whole people; the other in the in
ferest of 100000 manufacturers. The one is
designed to reduce both government revenue
and taxation, the taxation especially which
bears heaviest on the necessaries of life; the
other is intended to raise public revenue in
deed, but to maintain private revenues by
increasing and retaining taxation on all the
necessaries of life.
The advocates of the substitute freely pro-
pose to reduce duties or abolish them on those
things which yield only government revenue,
but refuse to reduce or abolish duties on those
things which produce private revenue. This
ic xxnad nd ic off od on IA
Vound that it is all for labor. When it is
remembered that the average tariff duty ON
all manufactured goods is AZ per cent. and
the average share of labor thereon is 81 per
cent, it will be seen that their love for the
workingman is based on the other rs per
cent, which they pocket. Having robbed
him of more than half of the bonus which
the law gives the workingman, they can well
afford to love him, and that love will con-
tinue undated until he insists on having all
the law gives him.
But the minority think safe to say that the
chief reductions in tariff taxation, as pro-
vided by the substitute, are confined to the
articles of sugar and rice, with jute and a
few other unimportant articles put upon the
free list, while there is an increase of duties
imposed upon the multiform manufacturers
of cotton, wool, iron and steel-articles that
the whole people, and especially the poor and
| most needy classes, are compelled to use.
The substitute relieves the non-necessary,
tobacco, in all its forms, except cigars, che
roots and cigarettes, from internal taxation,
and gives free alcohol to the arts. Taking
the tax off of tobacco will reduce revenue
| about S24 Geo. COO; and it is estimated that
the tax taken from alcohol for the arts will
make a further reduction of about 81, 000, 600;
| ing frauds upon the revenue that should be
derived from distilled spirits used for pur-
poses other than the arts, the loss of revenue
may be safely estimated at many times
g., 100000.
Practically the substitute offers to the
people free whisky and free tobacco, leaving
all the expensive machinery for the collection
of the revenue and enforcement of the law in
full force, while it increases taxation upon
the actual and indispensable necessaries of
life, and this, too, when there is large sur
plus in the treasury, and under existing laws
that surplus is being increased at the rate of
over l0,000, 900 per month, thus withdraw
ing and withholding from the channels Of
trade, commerce and business of the country
money absolutely necessary to their success
full operations
The report then refers to Schedule C
(metals to bear out their statements after
ward citing the changes made in the duty on
cotton ties as an effort to promote trusts and
combinations The whole cotton schedule of
the senate bill is condemned In regard to
the WOODEN schedule they say:
The substitute not only retains duty on
raw wool, but increases the duty from 10 to
IL cents pound on clothing and combing
wool, and the existing duty is retained on
carpet woods, which all parties agree are not
produced in this country, and the changes
made in the manufactures of wool increase
the taxation, and to that extent increase the
cost of the manufactured article. and espe-
cially the cheaper grades-the clothing of the
poor.
ION dress goods wholly of wool the duty is
increased from cents square yard and 40
per cent ad valorem to IL cents per square
yard and 40 per cent ad valorem, making an
increase of taxation on this single article
upon the basis of the importations of the
fiscal year 1887, when 81, 1876, 40 yards were
imported, of $622, tn
"And as these goods only cost an average of
81 cents yard in the foreign market, and
under existing law taxed -. SO per cent ad va
loren Is increased to % per cent. ad valorem.
''0f this class of goods we imported in the
fiscal year 1887 e, 81, 56S worth upon which
we collected $5,4ll,2 $50, with many times
that amount in the form of bounty to the
manufacturers. But the people win better
understand the effect of this change when
they see that they are paying. in the form of
taxation, about 19lS cents upon q square ward
of goods that cost in the foreign market only
81 cents yard, making the cost to the con-
sumner 40lS cents yard
Then follows another condemnation of
trusts and those who foster them The
minority says:
They are not private affairs as has been
asserted, but public evils of the gravest char
acter, affecting the price of every article
which contributes TO the people of the coun-
try"