Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-17
PRESENTING THE TARIFF BILL.
synopsis of the Arguments of the Maj or
ity and MiDnrity

Synopsis of the Arguments of the Major
ity and Minority.
WASHINGTON CITY, April 1.-THE long
expected tariff bill was reported to the
house yesterday by Mckinley, together with
three reports thereon, The arst report was
that of the majority. The chief changes in
the bill from those heretofore noted in these
dispatches are the placing of sugar on the
free list-up to No. 10 Dutch standard-and
providing for bounty of cents per pound
on the home product, and similar action re-
garding hides, minus the bounty The re-
port claims that the revenue from imports
will reach goo, OOO, 900 and on internal tax s
1000 600.
Summary of the Argument.
In explaining how this will result when
wool and other articles have been put at
higher duty, the majority says that the in
crease of duty will reduce the imports and
develop the home production. 1t is figured
that to bring the production of wool up to
the demand will require an increase of
American tiocks of over 100 per cent and
it is claimed that the bill has been framed
with the object of encouraging the produc-
ton in this country of everything 1t needs
that can be grown or produced here The
duties on farm products are left substan-
TALLY as they were in the first bill presented
The Democratic Report.
Carlisle and the other Democrats of the COM
mittee sign minority report, in which they
take the ground that the principal fault of
the bill is in not admitting raw materials
Free and the well known arguments in ia
vor of that policy are presented exhaust
lively. They claim that such policy would
enable the manufacturer to sell his product
cheaper, and at the same time pay better
wages.
Changes from the Original Bill.
Besides the changes from the original bill
in the sugar schedule and on hides, an
amendment provides that all goods, etc.,
manufactured wholly or in part i'll any for
eign country by convict labor. shall not be
entitled TO admission into the United States
Diamonds are put back to the present duty
of 10 per cent, a reduction from 40 per
cent. provided for by the bill as first passed
upon. The leather schedule is changed to
correspond with the transfer of hides to the
free list. The duty on oranges
in hulk is increas from Tue
duty of $3.50 per 1000 as first proposed
to 81 per LOCO. Burlaps are made free
Some changes, though no material ones, are
made in the fax schedule Binding Irvine
is reduced from ~ cents to Il cents per
pound. To meet the desires of the ingram
carpet manufacturers the schedule placing
Russian camels hair on the dutiable list was
stricken from the bill
Internal Revenue and the Farmers.
They object to the changes In internal
revenue that while they reduce the taxes
a measure in itself which they are not op-
posed to-they do not reduce the cost and
annoyance of collection, which could only be
done by clean sweep, which they would IA
vor. As to duties ON farm products, they
say that the policy is fallacious; that it will
not help the farmer, because, as they claim,
he has no foreign competition. The sugar
bounty is opposed, because it is, in their
view, a taxing of many industries for the
benefit of one, and because of what it will
cost, which will, by the end of the fifteen
years of its existence, aggregate over $780,.
600, 900 per year, if the home product reaches
the amount necessary to supply the demand.
Figuring ON an Increase.
Finally, the minority declare that instead