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

pound to III cents per pound. Notwith-
standing this, when hemp has been given q
fair trial as a binder Irvine it Is believed,
from the facts before your committee, that 1t
will displace that manufactured from the
foreign grown fibers with a cheaper and better
article.
RAMIE..
Ramie will accomplish for the south what
fax and hemp will for the north. 1t is a re-
markable fiber, which will, If encouraged, be
soon woven into a great variety of the
finest and most beautiful fabrics. The pres
ent season ramie is being grown in every
southern state, from South Carolina to Texas.
It has just passed tho ex 2erimental stage, and
a great and valuable industry will be secured
to the south through its protection.
SILK.
Several years ago the government began
in a systematic way to investigate the ques-
ton of silk culture in the United States.
Twenty thousand dollc"s has been annually
expended by the depar. ment of agriculture
for this purpose, and the results achieved
fully warrant this committee in the belief
that successful and profitable silk production
is entirely practicable in a majority of the
states of the Union.
1t was not thought wise at this time to i'm
pose a duty on reeled silk. Your committee
! found that the American silk r~eeler, in com-
petition with the cheap labor of Europe and
Asia, would be at u disadvantage Of at least
81 per pound for each pound Of silk produced.
The protection therefore necessary would
have been given by a duty in this bill but for
the fact that it would greatly embarrass the
silk weaving industry operating here under
existing conditions until the production Of
the reeled silk in this country more nearly
approximntes its consumption. Hence, In
order to secure this industry as speedily as
possible, and with the least expense under
the exceptional circumstances, your COM
mittee offer the necessary differential of a
bounty of 81 per pound-about the equiva-
lent of 20 per cent. on the market value of
good silk.
AS the most important reason for assisting
in establishing the silk Keeling industry is to
aid the creation of n market for cocoons,
which are an agricultural product, it was
thought by the committee that the chief OBJ
: ject in view would not be attained unless
, direct encouragement we're given to the pro-
Queer of the cocoon. For this reason a bounty
i also provided for in the bill, amounting to Z
cents per pound on fresh cocoons. This also
is about equivalent to 20 per cent. of the value
of the product. This industry has been as
sisted in the past by bounties granted by colo
NAL or state legislatures, but in general they
. were primarily to encourage the planting Of null
berry trees, or else they were given for lots of CO.
coons or silk larger than one person would be
likely to produce. For this reason they failed to
accomplish their object.
3 By the provisions of the bill these bounties are
to be paid for a period of ten years in order to give
, the industry a reasonable assurance of perma.
nency.
! The committee have recommended that paint.
' ings in oil or water colors, being the professional
> production of painters, and %statuary, cut, carved
8 or otherwise wrought by hand from a solid block
' or mass Of marble. and being a professional pro
duction of a statuary and sculptor only. shall be
a relieved of the 80 per cent. duty now imposed and
q be transferred to the free list. The removal OF
! all duty or tax from works Of art has long been
: petitioned for by American artists. In 1884 the
Society Of American Artists passed a resolution
against the continuance of the tariff on works OF
azt. In 1885 n committee was appointed to ascer
: tain the sentiment of the artists Of the United
i States, and, to that end, sent to every artist and
every art institution and teacher Of art whose I'D.
q dress could be found, asking for their views upon
thepropriety of continuing or abolishing the duty
To that circular the committee received l,435 re.
II plies, and out of that number 1,345 were in favor
OF a total abolition of the tariff on works Of art
4 ADDITIONS TO THE FIRE LIST.
q The free list has been enlarged by the addition
r of the following articles: Books and pamphlets
9 printed exclusively In language other than Eng
lish; books and music in raised letters printed ex.
clusively for the blind; braids, plaits, laces, flats:
+, bristles, raw; chicory root, raw, dried or undried,
i but unground; coal tar, crude, and pitch of coal
7 tar; dandenon roots, raw, dried or unground;
4 acorns; beeswax; floor mating manufactured
from round or split straw, including what is com.
0 monty known as Chinese mating; zante and other
currants; dates; grass and hbers; jute; jute butts;
Fnani1ns ciSOl QUINN orI oil otIno %n--~I.
grasses or fbrous vegetable substance, unmanu.
!, factured; degras and other grease; hair, human,
u raw, uncleaned and not drawn; molasses, under
SO degs. needles, hand, sewing and darning; nut
oil or oil of nuts; olive oil for manufacturing and
. mechanical purposes, unfit for eating; opium, I'm.
2 manufactured; ore, nickel; potash-crude or black
salts, chlorate Of, nitrate Of crude, sulphate Of
. crude; red earth or raddle, used for polishing
lenses; seeds; hemp, rope, bulbs. dubious roots,
{ not edible; shotgun barrel or barrels, rough or
. bored; sponges; tar and pitch of wood; tinsel wire,
lame or lain; tobacco stems; sulphur ore, as py-
, rites or sulphuret Of iron containing an excess Of
sulphur; spirits Of turpentine; unmanufactured
briar wood; paintings in oil, water colors, s~tatuary;
q sugar up to and including No. 16 Dutch standard
in color,
INTERNAL REVENUE.
The committee have changes In
the internal revenue laws Us follows:
r First-Abolishing the tax on dealers in leaf to-
bacco, which will relieve 1872 taxpayers and re.
duce the revenues $49, 57O.8 90.
Second-Abolshing the tax on dealers in manu-
featured tobacco, which will relieve 500, O3 tax
payers from the payment of asmall but v%exatious
tax. and will reduce the revenue 81, $50, OILS. 90.
\ Third-Abolishing the tax on manufacturers Of
q tobacco, which will relieve 902 taxpayers and re-
duce the revenue Sc, 12825.
Fourth-Abolishing the tax on manufacturers
y Of cigars, which will relieve 20,6S4 taxpayers and
, reduce the revenue $120. 1876 So.
Fffth-Abolishing the tax on peddlers Of tobac-
= co, which will relieve 5000 taxpayers and reduce
3 the revenue Sl27, O1O.SS.
r The committee q reduction of the
/ tax on smoking and manufactured tobacco from
8 cents to 4 cents per pound, which will effect a
reduction of the revenue Of $685. 1909
They also recommend a reduction of the tax on
n snuff from 8 cents to 4 cents per pound, which
= will effect q reduction of the revenue of $685.
' 44.781.
They also recommend the abolition of the tax
on retail dealers in leaf tobacco, effecting a re-
I duction Of the revenue of $270.S4
The nit have recommended that all pro-
9 visions of the statutes imposing restrictions Of
q any kind whatsoever upon farmers and growers
. of tobacco in regard to the sale thereof be re-
? pealed. This will enable the farmers and plant
!, es to sell their tobacco wherever and to whomso-