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the United States should be given through q
bounty rather than by an import duty.

the United States should be given through a
bounty rather than by an import duty.
THE TOBACCO TAX.
In providing that not only raw sugar but
i also sugar up to and including No. 16 shall
be admitted free of duty, an opportunity is
| given for the free Introduction of yellow su-
guars 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 su-
CARS will be subject to duty of only four |!
| tenths of one cent per pound. Several thou |
sand words of the report are devoted to giving |
reasons for increasing duties on agricultural
products. Concerning silk, the COMMITTEES |
states that In order to secure this industry az
speedily as possible they offer the necessary
difsrential Of a bounty of 81 per pound
about the equivalent of 20 per cent. of the
market value of good silk. A bounty OF
on ooceons. The committee have recon-
mended changes in the internal revenue laws
as follows: Abolishing the tax on dealers IN
leaf tobacco, manufactured tobacco. manu-
faoturers Of tobacco and cigars and peddlers
of tobacco, reducing the tax on smoking and
manufactured tobacco and snuff from cents
to cents per pound. The committee recon-
mend that all provisions of the statues inn
posing 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regard to the sale thereof be repealed.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 freedo m they now
dispose of other agricultural products.
THE EFFECT ON AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS.
In conclusion the committee state: The
effect of the advance of duties in agricul-
tural products will be to hold cur own mar
kets in larger measure than at present for
our own farmers without any increase of
| revenue. The same result will follow in
other cases of increase and where the revenue
is specially increased that increase will be
far less than is indicated by a computation
based upon the theory that importations of
such articles will continue as large as under
lower duties. In the case of q manufacturer
Of wool, where the importations have been
enormous because of inadequate duties,
there can be no reasonable doubt
diminish rather than increase the rev.
enue. The committee conclude, therefore,
that the proposed bill if enacted into law will
| certainly reduce the revenue from imports at
least $50, 936, 536, and probably more and
from the internal revenue $40, 1877 ,S78, or in
| the aggregate 81, 264 ,414.
HIDES ON THE FREE LIST.
No reference is made in the report to raw
hides, subject that has given the republic
can members of the committee considerable
trouble. They decided to put hides on the
dutiable list, but changed that decision this
morning, and hides will remain on the free
| list 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..
MnR arn dia0n "a rornfank1va
and protests 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 Objectionable as
bounty on raw sugar."
| The Minority Report.
The minority report is signed by all of the
| five democratic members of the committee.
It begins with the following statement:
Upon the question of collecting such revenue
from duties on imported goods as may be
necessary to pay the whole or part of tho
cost of conducting the government when
economically administered, we are now at
the parting of the ways. Whether such
taxes shall be imposed upon the people for
| the primary purpose of raising money for the
payment of the ordinary public expenses and
the public debts, or be imposed for the pur-
pose of Increasing the cost of production and
|
sumption, is question upon which there is
an irreconcilable difference Of opinion be-
tween the two great political parties of the
country and this question in its plainest
form is directly presented for consideration
by the bill reported by the majority.
FEW INDUSTRIES YIELDING A FAIR PROFIT.
According to the settlement made before
the committee, the protected industries of
the country have never been at any time in
such depressed and discouraeing condition
as they are now. After nearly thirty years
of continuous protection by government
taxation for their support, great many Of
them are reported to be on the very verge of
bankruptcy and ruin, while very few OF
them, according to testimony, are yielding a
fair profit upon the capital invested.
The report states that the remedy proposed
by the majority is the imposition of more
taxes upon every article Of foreign origin,
which the people of this country desire to
buy and for which they are ready and anx-
ious to exchange the cotton which they can
| not spin, the corn and wheat which they
cannot consume, the oil and coal which they
cannot burn, and many other products of
our farms, our forests and our mines.
THE METAL SCHEDULES.
At time when 1t ia confessed by all par
ties that the government does not need addi-
tional revenue, but there ought to be a re-
duction of it's receipts, the bill reported by
!; the majority proposes to levy upon a great
many articles of absolute necessity higher
rates of duty than were ever heretofore pro-
posed in any measure reported to congress.
The silk bounty is severely criticised in the
report.
OF the metal schedules the report says that
there are many increases and scarcely any
reductions on articles that can be imported al
all.
THE SUGAR BOUNTY cRITICIsED.
, No reduction has been made in the amount
of duties imposed under any schedule except
that relating to sugar and molasses. In oil
, the other thirteen schedules of dutiable goods
embracing almost every important article the
} people use, except tea and coffee, which have
been free for many years, increases are made
= AID in many of them the increase il very
l large. The report criticises the sugar bounty
and protests against the gross favoritism and
injustice of such policy.
= In conolusion the report says: While w
! would gladly corporate with the majority ir
the passage of any measure which would re-
. lieve the people from unnecessary taxation
: promote the prosperity of our various indus
7 tries and secure ample wages and steady EN-
ployment to the laborers engaged In them
: we feel constrained to make an earnest pro
D test against this bill, because in our opinion
4 1t will not accomplish any of these desirable
results.
Base BALL Yesterday.
At Newark
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!. At Hartfors-H -Carhart Q, Hartford 4.
! IN HONOR OF THE PRESIDENT.
a Dinner Given 1t Warrington Las
Night By she Delegates of she Latin
0 American Conference.-The Presiden
Toasted.
> WARRINGTON, D. G., April 1e.-The Dime
. given tonight in honor of the president o
the United States by the delegates of tn
: Latin-American conference was undoubtedl
the handsomest and, in respect to the distin
!. guishsd character of the guests, one of tn
!, most notable ever given in Washing
= !. ton. The great new banauetting hal
= effectively decorated with tall, broad-leafe
palms, foliage plants and Towering shrubs
;, In the center of the room stood great sago
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