The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1890-04-17
TARIFF BILL REPORTED.
A Reduction of Seventy Millions Rev.
enue Contemplated.

WASHINGTON, April 16.-In the House TODAY.
Mr.. Mckinley of Ohio from the committee on
ways and means reported the tariff bill which was
ordered printed and referred to the committee of
the whole.
Mr.. Carlisle of Kentucky presented the views of
the minority and Mr.. Kenna of California pre-
sented his individual views.
In the majority report ON the tariff, in every
case of increased duty, except that imposed on tin
be to reduce the revenues because 1mportationS
will fall off. The general policy of the bill is TO
o pusr In reaars
to wool the report states that by the proposed bill
the duties on first and second class wool are
made II and 12 cents pound, against 10 and IL
under the existing law. On third class WOOL cost
ing IL cents or less, the duty is raised from 21a
cents cents pound 3k cents; Upon WOODS OF the
commended is an advance of from five to eight
cents pound. The committee recommend that
S and and SUasss pseed
on the free list with duty of 4-10 of a cent per
pound on refined sugar above 16, and that
treasury. for period of 10 years, for all sugar
polarizing at least 80 per cent made ia this
country from cane, beets or sorghum produced in
the United States. Concerning silk the committee
states that in order TO secure this industry as
speedily as possible, they offer the necessary
equivalent to 20 per cent of the market value of
good silk. A bounty of seven cents per pound, it
is stated, is also allowed on cOco0nS.
The committee recommend changes in the in
ternal revenue laws abolishing the tax on dealers
in leaf tobacco and manufactured tocacco, manu-
facturers of tobacco ana cigars, and peddlers of
tObacco and reducing the tax on smoking and
manufactured tobacco and snuff from eight cents
to four cents pound. The committee recommend
that all provisions of the statutes imposing re-
strctons of any kind whatsoever on farmers and
growers of tobacco In regard to the sale thereof,
be repealed. The proposed bill, if enacted into
law, will certainly reduce the revenue from I'M
ports at least sec, ,936, ,636, and probably more,
and from internal revenue S10,327,878. No ref
erence is mace in the report to raw hides. Hides
will remain on the free list as at present
Mr.. Kenna OF California, a Republican member
of the ways and means committee, submitted a
bflPI. bbffPort oissen'ing from 'ne sugar
The minority report is signed by all the Demo-
cratic members of the committee. 1t begins with
the statement that there is an irreconcilable diff
ference of opinion between the two great political
parties of the country upon the question OF col
lecting the revenue from duties on imported
goods Continuing, the report criticIses the poll
cy of the protective tariff and declares that there
is vice in 1t somewhere that ought to be removed,
for there is no reason to doubt that in a country
like this every productive industry would be rea-
sonably prosperous if a wise and Just revenue
and financial policy prevailed. Under our unwise
system of taxation there is no market which Will
pay our industries, and to attempt to remedy the
evil by increasing the cost of production is simply
to begin az the wrong end and will greatly aggra-
yate the situation,