Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1890-03-11
DUTY on COFFEE.

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the buildings and retain control of
the financial affairs.
DUTY on COFFEE.
Representative O'DonneI (Michi-
gan) introduced a bill in the House
today providing for the collection of
a duty on coffee equivalent to the
export duty levied by certain coun-
tries. Coffee coming from those
countries e1acting export duties
shall be admitted free; and when
the nations now collecting duties on
cOfFees exported to the United States
shall abolish the same, no duty shall
be collected at any American port.
THE WINDOW SILVER BILL.
The House committee on coinage,
weights and measures again had
under consideration the Window
silver bill and informally passed
upon it. -Four members Of the
committee were absent. 4 number
OF amendments were offered, but
only two were adopted. One was
the addition Of n provision to section
FIVE. This section makes it the duty
Of the Secretary of the Treasury to
refuse the deposits Of silver when
the market price shall exceed one
dollar for S7l.25 grains, pure silver.
The amendment provides for the
free coinage OF silver whenever the
price of silver reaches the price
mentioned above. The other amend
ment, added to section two, pro-
vides that nothing in the act shall
lie construed to change the legal
tender quality Of the standard silver
dollar. Final action was postponed
until Monday.
ABOUT HOPS.
The ways and means committee
heard further arguments upon the
proposition to increase the duty on
hops.
Representative Hermann (Org.)
denied the statement which, he said,
had been made that the people OF
the Pacific slo;e did not desire to
increase the duty on hops. Chinese
labor was becoming very scarce and
dear; Indians could no longer be
had; land was Increasing in value.
All these things meant increased
cost Of production Of hops. At
present the actual cost of growing
them on the Pacific Coast was from
eight TO ten cents pound.
Representative Butterworth ar
gued in opposition 10 an increase Of
the duty. He affirmed his prOtec-
ZIONIST principles, but held that this
was a case where increased duty did
not mean added protection New
York State was In the position of
northern Ohio in that she was trying
with worn-out lands, uDsuited
dramatically, to compete with the
fertile and productive west. One
section Of the country could not be
protected against another by any
such device as an increase Of duty.
THE STATISTICAL REPORT
of the Department of Agriculture
for March relates TO the distribution
and consumption of corn and wheat.
1t makes the proportion Of the corn
crop in the hands Of the growers at
49, per cent, or $40, O00, 900 bushels,
and OF the wheat crOE 81. o per cent,
or l56, 900, 900 bushels. The stock of
corn on hand is the largest ever re-
ported in March. The average of
eight annual returns is 677 900, 600
bushels, and that Of last year TS7,
600, 900 bushels. The estimated con-
sumption TO March LIST is l,l3i,090,-
900 bushels-fgures exceeding only
last year and in 1856.
The proportion Of merchantable
corn Of the crop Of 1889 is S5.7 per
cent, exceeded in recent years only
by those Of 1854 and 1856. The aver
age value Of all corn on the LIST of
December was 2S.3 cents per bushel.
The average on the LIST Of March was
27.9 cents for merchantable and 1872
for understandable, making the ag
gregate value 81, 100000 less than
in December.
Six spring wheat States have only
55, 900, 600 bushels, $1,000, 600 OF
which viii be required for spring
seed, and the remainder Is scarcely
more than four months consump-
ton for their population. Ohio,
Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri, and Kansas, the only winter
wheat States east OF the Rocky
Mountains contributing to CONNER
cial distribution, have only $4,000
900, half of which viii be needed ut
lIcme, and part Of the remainder
commercially unavailable at present
prices. Therefore, the available
supply for export and home distribu-
ton to July is small. The depleted
farm reserves have been measurably
filed except in a few States, but 1t
will require a pressure Of high prices
to squeeze any considerable proper
ton Of them into commercial dis
tricts.
"LEAKs.''