Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-09

IA AASS4 W ~ SSAV ~ PNNANAs 4>ASASAS "a
Is placed upon the free list. Pyrites or sui
phate Of iron, containing an excess of Is per
cent. of sulphur, is placed Upon the free list.
Nickel in matte is reduced from Is to 8 cents
per pound. The decreased duties, as proposed,
have been made after the fullest investigation,
and are believed to be just to our own indus
tries.
TIN PLATES.
The committee ave recommended an ad-
vance Of duty on tin plate. The finance
committee of the senate of the last congress,
after the fullest investigation, said in their
report:
The present anomalous and inadequate
duties on tin and terne plates have received
the attention of your committee, who believe
that such a readjustment of these rates should
be made as would encourage the manufacture
Of these articles in this country.
It has been demonstrated that we can
manufacture tin plate in the United States
as successfully as it can be done in England.
Its production here suitable for all uses is no
longer experimental. We make sheet iron
and sheet steel, and it is confidently believed
that we have in the Dakotas pig tin in suf1i-
Gent quantities for use in making all of the
tin required for this market. and If this were
not SO pig tin is on the free list accessible to
our people for manufacturing purposes.
There is no reason except inadequate pro-
lection why we are not today manufacturing
the more than s21, 900, 900 worth of tin now
imported into the United States and upon
which 70 pay an annual duty of over ST.
100000. 1t is estimated that the establish
ment of an industry which would supply our
own market in this particular would furnish
steady employment to at least a., 900 men.
The hill nrOvi6ac that tho inCroocod Ipfu
shall not 60 into effect until July l, 1901, and
that manufacturers, encouraged by this pro-
posed legislation in the meantime, will adapt
their plants, and that in the end the advanced
duty will not enhance the cost to the con-
sumner, but eventuate in lower and steadier
prices. To the end that there may be no in
corruption of our export trade of canned
products by reason of the proposed change,
the committee recommend that upon tin inn
ported and exported, made up, the govern
ment shall retain but l per cent. instead Of 10
per cent. as provided by existing law.
: If the recommendation of the committee is
adopted, it is believed a new and important
industry will be secured to the United States
with all the resultant benefits to the people
at large.
SUGAR..
! The committee recommend that sugar, up
to and including No. 1G, Dutch standard of
color, and molasses be placed on the free list,
with a duty of four-tenths Of l cent per pound
on refined sugar above No. l6, and that q
bounty Of 2 cents per pound he paid from the
treasury for q period of fifteen years for all
sugar polurizing at least IS per cent. made in
this country from cane, beets or sorghum pro-
duced in the United States.
In providing that not only raw sugar, but
also sugar up to and including No. l6 shall be
admitted free of duty, an opportunity is
i given for the free introduction of yellow
sugars, suited for family use, an arrangement
which will secure to our people sugar at the
lowest price existing in the markets of the
world, while even imported white refined
sugar will be subjected to a duty of four.
tenths of l cent per pound.
I AGRICULTURAL
l. The committee have given months Of in
~~vestigation to the existing conditions of agri
culture and matters connected Herewith
This great industry is foremost in magnitude
and Importance in our country.
Your committee, sensible of the nationa
Importance of agriculture, prompted by thu
single motive to lift 1t to the highest level Of
profitable employment so far as with then
rests any power, firmly believe that they ofPel
to this industry In the bill presented, while
not the only, all the relief which tariff legis
lation can yield to II.
A critical examination of the subject viii
show that agriculture is suffering chiefly
from a most damaging foreign competition
In our home market. The increase in impor
tations Of agricultural products since 1851
has been enormous, amounting from $40,
100000 in round numbers to more than 1856,
, 100000 in 1889. This is an increase Of nearly
900 per cent, while the population increased
for the same period less than 800 per cent
During the past ten years this growth in Inn
portation has been most rapid, and has beer
marked by a significant n corresponding
decline in prices of the home grown product
We advance the rates upon the products Of
the soil which either do supply or can be
brought to supply the home consumption
Horses, cattle, hogs, sheep, bacon, barley
beans, peas, beef, mutton, pork, buckwheat
butter, cheese, eggs, hay, hops, milk, poultry
fax seed, vegetables, potatoes, fax, hemp
wool, tobacco and many other products ar
advanced with a view to save this entire mar
ket to the American farmer.
As indicating the general line of policy pur
sued In changing rates in this schedule, YOU
committee can only, in the scope Of this report
note a few articles illustrative of all.
HORSES, CATTLE AND SHEEP.
In the last ten years not less than $50, 900,
600 worth of horses, cattle and sheep, ordin
airy marketable stock, has been imported. A
portion of these have paid 20 per cent. &C
valorem on a fraudulent differentiation. A
very large proportion have come in free
professedly for breeding purposes, actually
for the common markets. The duty has beer
changed to q specific rate and advanced to 6
point where it will protect the market, while
the paragraph in the free list on animals fol
breeding purposes is SO framed as to only ad
nit animals which are pure bred and prop
erly registered.
Ten years ago the cultivation Of tobacco
suitable for cigars promised one of the most
certain and profitable investments for agri.
culture in many Of the northern states. To-
day the industry is crowded from its own
market by foreign importations produced by
labor costing less than ten cents per day. The
value of the tobacco imported from the
Netherlands alone for the six months ending
Dec. 81 last was nearly s5,0O0,0 900. The duty
has been increased, with a view of protecting
the American market for the American
farmer.
Flax and hemp ave been advanced upo1
the positive evidence that the time has come