The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-04

1t will be seen there is decrease OF
receipts from the customs during the
ten months since tho new tariff has
been in operation OF $50, 6G0,3ll, as COM
pared with like period of the preced-
ingyear. It will be remembered, how
ever, that the principal article of our
imports from which the duty was re-
moved is sugar, and this removal of duty
did not take effect until April ], 1881.
Ii comparison be made Tor the four
months since April with the CORES,
ponding period OF the prior year it will
be observed that the reduction in Gus
toms receipts has been $50 327, 053.
Undoubtedly the reduction during
twelve months will equal ii not exceed
the amount claimed by the advocates OF
tho bill.
Again, what has been the effect upon
our imports?
During tho ten months since the en-.
actment of tho new tariff law the total
value OF the imports Of merchandise
was S697, PSI $40, an increase OF Sc, 022, :
l3l us compared with the correspond
ing ten months of tho prior year, when
the value was S67G.S20, 200.
The value Of the merchandise i'm
ported free OF duty during tho ten
months ended July, 1891, was $s}2O, 1885,
ia, or 47.23 per cent. OF the total i'm
ports during that period, while during
the corresponding ten months OF tho
prior year, under tho old tariff, the
value OF the merchandise imported free
of duty was $3.50, 5G3, 2G3, or 3l09 per
cent. OF the total imports OF merchan-
disc, when there was much the largest
amount in tho value OF imports i'll the
history Of our Government.
The imports Of free merchandise for
the ten month ending July, 1891, were
i'll value $63,G6S, l45 greater than the
total free merchandise imported during
the entire fiscal year OF 1890 and ST.
S4g,GO6 greater than tho same imports
OF 1889, which two years show tho larg-
est imports free OF duty in the history
OF the government.
1t will be seen thore is an increase OF
about $lO0,000,O00 in tho imports OF
merchandise admitted free OF duty, and
the per cent OF free merchandise has
been increased from S4.09 under the old
tariff to AIS under the new tariff.
1t should DO remembered, however,
that sugar, ono OF the principal articles
OF imports in quantity and value, was
not admitted free until April |, and tho
iull effects OF the law could not be rcH-
lied. Ii comparison be made OF the
value OF the imports OF free and dutiable
merchandise Tor the four months since
April with tho corresponding four
months OF the prior year, it will be OBJ
served that tho proportion in value as
we'll US in per cent OF free merchandise
is greatly increased.
The value OF the imports OF merchan-
disc for the last four months was $685.
775,OO2, OF which Sl65,2l0,438 or 66.23
per cent, was free OF duty.
During he corresponding four months
OF 1890 the value OF the imports was
$205, O34 ,426, OF which 500, 4S6, ASP, oronly
S2.GS per cent, was free. Here, then, is
an increase in the value of free mer-
chandise for the four months under tho
new tariff OF SOS, 77S,9S0 and IN increase
OF 1886 in the percentage.
The free imports are OF such articles
rs are largely not produced in this
country and which enter into the daily
consumption OF the people.
Furthermore, during each OF the fiscal
wears 1850 and 1880, the duty collected
upon our imports was s. 90 per capita
Of the population OF the United States
II tho duties for the twelve months oi
1901 should continue as they during
the four months since April ], the duty
per capita Of population will be S2 80
or 81 0S less than under the old law
which is the smallest per capita duty
since 1863.
since the enactment OF the new tariff
the imports Of dutiabie merchandise
were OF tho value OF $3.50, 9l4, 556, as COM
pared with Si45, 7G5,946 the value. o
fsI..7 =. n,.l,n ,, ,I;s,, CO.. tha oarEngnnudiuf