New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-30

The official report of Special Agent Aver, who
has been selected T. receive and cOllatc the
records OF tin plate manufacture undcr the new
tariff. gives information which diSpoScS of a
large army of tin plate faSchoods. 1t is but Il
few days since newspapers that profess 10 be
well informed were asserting that no bright tin
Mate had been or could be made in this cOun
try. Only about week ago the majority of
the House Committee on Ways and Means,
which nobody expects 10 be well informed. made
itself ridiculous by repeating the same aSser-
ton. Yet the sworn reports of the manu-
facturcrs, which Alr. Aver complies, were on
file ut that time, and open 10 the inspection of
every body These returns show that the pro-
duction in nine months ending with March had
been Of bright tin plate lighter than G3 pounds
per 100 square feet 335, 0GS pounds, and of
tcIro plates of the same limit rs To weight
3.l92.lG2 pounds. making 4,527.230 pounds
within the provisions of the law requiring II
production equal to a third Of the consumption
within six years.
Mr.. Aver believes that this provision will be
met by American manufacturers, not five OF
six years hence. bnt next year. He shows u
remarkably rapid increase in the output, five
manufacturers reporting 5I1,i pounds tho
first quarter, eleven manufacturers reporting
.22s. $50 pounds the second quarter, and nine
teen manufacturers reporting 2,I2l ,i29 pounds
the third quarter after the act went into effect,
all within the limits Of the law as To weight.
He finds that twenty factories are now in
actual operation, and sixteen more are already
preparing 10 begin operations in the next fiscal
Il sc f,,.
two works is 5,4OO, 900 pounds weekly, or in
foIty-fyc weeks for the year no less than
243 900 600 pounds for the next fiscal year.
No such production is required to meet the de-
mands Of the law and to put IN end to the
conditional feature of the new duties. On this
point the language of the act should be no
ticcd 1t runs thus:
Provided hat on and after october |, 1897. tin
plates and tcrne plates lighter In weight than 90
pounds per 100 square feet shall be admitted free Of
duty unlcs, II shall be made 10 appear to the salts
faction Of the President who shall thereupon by proc
lamatlon make known the facu that the aggregate"
quantity Of such plates lighter than 80 pounds per 100
.Iuae feet produced in the United States during either
OF the TX years next preceding June 80, 1897, has
cquard one third tho amount Of such plates imported
and entered for consumption during any fiscal wear
after the passage q this act and prior to said Oc
tobcr l. 1897 Provided hht The amount OF su'h plates
mannfar turcd into articles exported, and upon which
a drawback shall be paid. shall not be included in
a,certaInne the amount OF such importation and pro
vid,d further that the amount weight OF shcctlron
sheet steel manufactured In the United states and
applied wrought I'm the manufacture OF articles or
wares, timed tcrne plated In the United state,
with weight allowance sold to manufacturers or
Others shall be considered tin and erne plates pro
duced I'm tho United States within the meaning Of this
act.
The quantity imported and entered for CON
sumption during any fiscal year after the
passage OF the act is taken as the basis Of rcck-