Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-17
they offer in this bill all relief which tariff
lppiSlatiop cor rx;rS :.


SHOWS that agriculture is suffering chiefly
rom damsging foreign competition in the
nome market. The increase of importa-
,ions OF agricultural products since 1850
mas oeen enormous, mounting from S40,-
COO COO to more than S356, ,O00, 900 in 1889.
VI the metal schedules the report saws :
NO feouctlon can be made in pig iron, or
ore duties, without detriment to existing
industries, and the committee has not felt
Jusuneo IN interfering with the further de-
velopment of the iron ore resources. now
SO promising in the Southern States. With
regard to pig iron. it is said it is no sense
raw material. Its product is of the highest
skltl, requiring for its manufacture large
and expensive plants, and the capital in
vested In our country more than EQUALS
tnai invested IN any other branch of our
IRON and steel industry. Pig iron is made
IN twenty-five States of the Union.
Inc report strongly sustains the increased
duty recommended on tin plate.
M'KENNA OBJECTS.
Mckenna dissents from the sugar sched-
ule. The bill in its sugar schedule, he
SAID, makes an arbitrary and invidious dis
hncnon between the sugar industry and
other Industries, and the distinction is in.
consistent with the principle upon which
the bill was framed, and upon which it can
alone be justified. Protection, as under
stood politically, is the clear right of all
| industries or of none. Tariff NAV be q
tax bounty, and is certainly one fixed and
| unavoidable and increases with the pro-
ductlon 1t encourages, and finally vanishes
IN the competition of home products
Bounty abandons the home market to a
foreign product. Tariff secures home
market to the home product. Bounty
| therefore, is as useless as it is burdensome
| q q ic II ha,
justification either in practice, principles or
professions of the Republican party.
Ii bounty is useful for sugar, why not
for other things? In all the range of arti-
cles with which the bill deals, are none fit
for bounty but sugar? If bounty is tax
OF less burden than is the tariff, why are
| sugar consumers selected for favor?
The Republican House of Representa-
tives should not set this example. Who
can say where the contagion of it will stop?
Speaking of the beet sugar industry of
California, McKenna said The industry
must be able to supply the home consump-
ton before it should be entitled to protec-
| ton.
| MINORITY REPORT.
| WASHINGTON, April 16th.-John G. Car
Isle, R @. Mills, Benton Mcmillan, C. r.
Breckenridge and Roswell P. Flower, of
the Ways and Means Committee, SUBJ
mitted minority report on the tariff bill
to-day.
On the subject of sugar and molasses the
report says:
| No reduction has been made in the amount of
duties imposed under any schedule except that
relating to sugar and molasses. In all the
other thirteen schedules of dutable goods en-
braclng almost every important article the peo-
pie use, except tea and coffee, which have been
! free tor many years, increases are made and in
many Of them the increase is very large.
The bill proposes 70 admit free of duty all su-
| gar up to and including No. IT, and pay to the
| sugar producers in this country bounty of two
| cents per pound each year until July l, 1905, on
| all their product.
| now made free, yielded to the Government
S54 S9 isl, all of which is now TO be surrendered
and the sugar industry is to become an annual
| charge upon all the people who are engaged in
other occupations, some of which are far more
important, and all Of which are fully as merito-
rious as this one.
In 1Sss, which is the last year for which we
have complete returns, the sugar product in
this country was S75 S55 S77 pounds so that even
| if there should be no increased production un-
der the bounty system the sum which the peo-
| pie are to be compelled to donate each year for
| the support of this favored industry, will be
$3.50 CO. or Sll3 900 goo during the fifteen years
| but the very object of the bounty is to encour-
age the production OF this article and its adv
| Gates claim that it will create domestic supply
| equal to the whole demand for home consump-
| ton.
| We imported and consumed during the last
fiscal year z, 700 42l 1902 pounds OF sugar not ovc-
| No. l6 in color making a total annual consump-
ton. not including domestic and imported. of
3.01b,21I,O!9 pounds, and therefore, if the system
results as its advocates predict, the annual pay
ment out OF the Treasury will be SOL ,52S 426,
taken without any increase in the amount con-
sumed.
We protest against the gross favoritism and
injustice OF such a policy, and we deny the
moral or constitutional right of the Government
to tax the people who grow corn, wheat, cotton,
rye oats and other agricultural products tor
the purpose of raising money TO be given to
those who produce sugar or any other article.
Inc bounty provisions contained in this bill
are confessions that the whole system, which it
seeks to strengthen and extend is a system of
discriminations between the various productive
industries OF the country-a system which i'm
poses charges upon some for the support of
others, and disIegaIds every principle OF Justice
and equality in distributing the burdens of tax
alton.
The du'ies imposed upon imported sugar
even at the present rates. are mainly for reve-
nue., and about nine-tent of the charge upon
the people on account of these duties goes into
the public treasury for the support of the Gov
eminent, and only about onetenth can be
added to the prices of the domestic products
The tax. therefore, is far more Just and equit-
able than the taxes on cotton and woolen goods
linen goods, and many other articles now sub
Ject to high ra es of duty, and which this bill
proposes TO make still higher. Because in these
cases the conditions are reversed, and the Gov
ernment receives small proportion only of the
total amount the people are compelled to pay.
high and that a reduction ought to be made. we
cannot see the justice or propriety of making
this revenue article entirely free and paying
bounties upon lis production, i'll order to afford
excuse for the imposition of additional taxes to
the amount OF abont S65, 900, 900 on the neces-
saries of lite embraced in the other schedules.
statss Agsn there are few in the United
call proper encouragement. they could produce
raw silk here, and accordingly this bill pro-
poses to compel all the people to pay out of the
rrpa hO,n fnfG - -
the raw silk reeled from cocoons, or cents on
every pound, or Sl56 so per ton of fresh cocoons,
including the worms produced in the United
States.
Raw silk and cocoons are now on the free list,
and last yea we imported $500. .6i6 pounds of
SIX and lOl ,647 pounds of cocoons The object
OF the proposed bounty is to discourage these
importations, which cost the people nothing
unless they saw proper to use silk goods and to
encourage the production OF those articles here
at an expense of 81 pound for the cocoons in
addition to the actual value of the articles
themselves and this expense is to be charged
to all the people whether they use silk goods or
not and be paid out of the public treasury
The bill proposes to make large increases in
the duties on carpet woods, and take silver ores
containing lead from the free list and subject
the lead contained in the silver ore to a duty of
IA cents per pound, not because we need the
revenue, but for the sole purpose of preventing
these articles from being imported into this
country.
Last year we imported direct from the States
and the republics of Central and South America
and the republic of Mexico many millions
of this wool, and still more by the way of Lon
don and other European ports, and from Mexico
silver ores bearing lead of the value of Sc 49,
leo. Our total importations of carpet woois
from all countries amounted to 90 555 466
pounds. and our total impoItations of this kind
of ore was So, 95l ,19
All this wool has been converted into carpets
and other fabrics, and all these ores have been
smelted in the United States by American work
men, and their importation has been of great
benefit to our people, in addition 10 the profit
realized from the trade between the different
countries
The free admission of fluxing ores from Mex
leo has enable our citizens to establish and
maintain large smelling works at FL Paso, Tex,
Argentine, Kas., Newark, n. j., Kansas CITY,
Mo- and great many other places.
II the bill passes the tax upon sc, 600 tons of
sill yer ore, the amount imported last year. will
be over S672 900 which the Government does not
need. and which will benefit nobody in this
country. The bill, in fact increases the rates
on all classes of wool imported into this
country. These increases have been made
principally upon the demand of a few large
flock masters in the State of Ohio and they will
be defended by the majority, upon the alleged
ground that they are beneficial to the farmers
OF the country who keep sheep on their lands.
The fact is that wool is one of our least-im-
portsnt agricultural products in point of aetual
value, and by comparison with Others even in
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