The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1890-11-03
ADDED EVIDENCE
That Prices Have Gone Away Up Under
the Mckinley Bill

the Mckinley Bill
Special Correspondence Of the Standard.
BUTTE, Nov. 2.-Nnn Orton, one Of the
principal dealers In musical supplies In
this city, has these letters:
TopmchaseTs OF piano scarfs, piano covers
and plano stools!
The Mckinley tarin bin, in effect since octo-
her G, advances the duty nu Al imported plushes
consequently prices { these goods, Ns Vel as
the domestic makes, viii be considerably higher
ln consequence Ot this change We Will be com.
PEELED 20 adNance our prices Of piano Scarfs and
cnyrrs mnde of silk pushes, AMI We Withdraw
all quotations made prior tO this date.
A revised list " piano sc rfs Il now being
compiled and will be ready for distribution IN
toe course Of few weeks
The cost OF piano stools has alsD been raised
by this act but We do not propose 90 give notice
OF any change NJ present, However, all quota
lions are only gOOd for the time being, and are
subject To change without notice. TOak Mfg. Co.
Chicago, Oct. Is,
The other letter is as follows:
"ARoUr THE INV TARIFF."
The house Of representatives disposed in May
OF musical instruments, etc., as follows;
Paragraph Al. Pianos and piAniOrte actions,
and parts ", ~ per cent. al valOtem.
plher musical Instruments and ptrtS ~, in
CndlDg bows, eases, strings, pitchplpcs and
tuning forks, y per cent, al yalnren. Musical
mctronones aud parts thereof, % per cent ad
yalOrem.
The hilI then went 10 the senate, where 10 the
surprise u the trade the paragraph was stricken
out entirely. Delegates were then sent to Wash
ingt0n and lt was explained a. congress that
great confusion would cnsuc unless musical in
stTumenis, etr, were specially named IN the new
taTin, and an lndlsputable rate Of duty made for
them-hut the result shows that all efforts were
IN vain. The music business was given need
lesSly a blow and an indignty. Congress In Us
wisdom made special mention OF many inSignih-
cant goods In the new tariff hut thought best 10
omit mentioning musical lnstrum enis.
This brings our goods under general para
graphs Of the law and II AN advance OF 10 TO is0
per cent above old rates of duty. Musical In.
Struments ETC., are now manufactured Of metal
OF of wood, az of ivory or of silk, etc, with a
different rate of duty Tor each. In many eases,
on this plan, different rates OF duty apply 10 one
instrument; for instance, one key flute pays q
PET cent, an eight.key flute pays i5 per cent, an
ivory head flute pays 10 per cent. duty.
We DO not think the advanced prices caused
by higher rates ~ duty viii Kill the business.
Buyers will have 10 pay more than formerly,
that's ALL
We beg 10 inform you that In making new
prices, we have, in Instances where duty rate
was uncertain, always taken the lowest rate as
n basis -yiOllns, bows, ETC., for instance, at 81
per cent duty; but as the taTifi act gets ~ work
L may he decided that a. per cent. Is the proper
rate for such goods.
time on some lines 81 roods-abd In the mean.
time mark mp your own goods on the basis OF
present wholesale prices.
The confusion, uncertainty and advance In
prices would all have been avoided had congress
needed our reasonable petition to mention mtr
steal instruments, ETC., and hx rate OF duty for
them.
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