St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-17

considered that this increase in cost due
to the duty falls on an article of prime
necessity as food, your committee is
persuaded that justice as we'll as good
policy requires that such an unneces-
sary burden in the way OF direct lax
should be removed from sugar, and that
the encouragement required to induce
the production of sugar in the United
States should be given as bounty rather
by ali import duty. In providing that
not only raw sugar but also sugar up to
and including No. l6 shall be admitted
Tree of duty, an opportunity is given
for the free introduction of yellow
sugars suited for family use-an ar
rangement which Will secure to our
people sugar at the lowest price exist
ing in the markets of the world. while
imported, white refined sugars will be
subject TO duty of only four-tenthS of
one cent pound. Several thousand
words of report are devoted to giving
reasons for increasing duties on agri-
cultural products. Concerning silk, the
committee states that in order to secure
this industry as speedily as possible
they offer the
Necessary Differential
of bounty of 81 per pound, about the
equivalent of % per cent of the value OF
good silk. A bounty of Z cents per
pound it is stated is also allowed on
cocoons. The committee has recon-
mended changes in the internal reve-
nue. laws as follows: AbollShing the
tax on dealers in leaf and manufactured
tobacco, manufacturers OF tobacco and
cigars, and peddleTS of tobacco: reduc-
in,r IN 70 c,pn1yinm ond nnonnfQat-
ured tobacco and snuff from five to four
cents per pound. The committee rec
Ommend that all provisions of the stat
utes imposing restrictions of any kind
whatsoever upon farmers and growers
of tobacco in regard to the sale thereof,
be repealed. This will enable the
farmers and planters to sell
their tobacco wherever and to
whomsoever they please with the same
freedom they now dispose of other az
ricultural products. In conclusion the
committee states: The effect of the adj
vance of duties on agricultural prod
ucts will be to hold our own markets IN
larger measure than at present for our
own farmers without any increase OF
arvenue. The same result will follow
in other cases of increase, and where
the revenue is in special cases in
creased, this increase will be far less
than is indicated by a computation
based on the theory that importations
of such articles will continue as large
as under lower duties. In the case of
manufactures of wool, where the i'm
portatiOns have been enormous because
of Inadequate duties, there can be no
reasonable doubt that tine rates of duty
proposed will
Diminish Rather Than Increase
the revenue. The committee conclude,
therefore, that the proposed bill, if en-
acted into law, will certainly re-
duce the revenue from imports
at least $50, $50, $50. and prob
ably more, and from the internal
revenue $40, 327.S7S. or in the aggregate
ST. ,264, 414. No reference is made in
the report to law hides, a subject that
has given the Republican members OF
the committee considerable trouble.
They decided to put hides on the duti-
able list but changed that decision this
morning and hides will remain on the
free list as at present. Mr. Mckenna OF
California, Republican member of the
ways and means committee, submitted
a report dissenting from the sugar
schedule of the bill. Mr.. McKenna
discusses the protective system and pro-
tests against the proposed imposition of
a bounty on sugar. In conclusion, he
says: "The bill presented gives a
bounty to silk cocoons and raw silk.
1t is as Objectionable as bounty Oh raw