Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-12-08

NdSnlllSlol, Dec. - ne democratic
members of the ways and means com
mittee We're in session three hours this
afternoon reviewing the tariff bill. The
Subcommittee on internal revenue re-
ported that so far rs completed the
new bill indicates there will be a prob
able deficit under its operations.
The democratic members did not en-
ter into Il final discussion of the income
tax question as was anticipated. OWN.
to the absence of Mr. Cochran. An az
Sument has been provoked by authority
OF the ways and means committee
showing, from Il democratic stand
point, the necessity of the changes at
fccted by the new administrative bill
Just reported by chairman Wilson and
his colleagues
The argument gives Il full explanation
Of the reasons why the committee in
its recent tariff bill abandoned specific
duty i'll 50 many cases in favor of ad
valOrcln dut.I.
/ Continuing the circular says: The
effect of specific duties is to almost
completely stop the importation of low.
far the greater quantities.; thus much
revenue is lost and the cost to the
masses unduly increased. This effect is
seen upon almost all goods on which
specific duties are levied
: An ad Valorcm duty, on the other
| hand, levied on the value of Imported
goods, is the fairest, most equitable
nf Illt r.ltn nj Sn MT hn
on al grades of goods of the same
! kind; but the disadvantage of such Il
duty is that it offers great temptation
10 importers to underValue their goods
on entering them in our ports. AS Il re
suit, many goods get into the country
at lower rates than are legally due,
thaS discriminating against merchants
who pay full dutiable rates
Most OF the objections sited as prin-
cipal defects in the present customs
are removed by the new administrative
act and the official report accompany
ing the bill will contain exhaustive
arguments to sustain the changes.
In closing the circular says: The
mission of the democratic party among
form will benefit our whole people,
merchants us well as laborers. The
customs under the administrative act,
amended Of the lines laid down, in-
slring Il rigid enforcement of such
tariff laws rs our party sees lit to
enact, would greatly assist in that
demOnSt1 alton.
There are mutations of II severe
struggle in the senate over the sugar
schedule of the Wilson bill if it is
not modified il the house.
A prominet southern senator said
today that the senator's from all the
states of the west, such as Nebraska,
Kansas and California, would unite to
oppose the change proposed in the bill
The plan of Il graduated reduction
in the bounty, he said, would result in
killing the sugar producers by inches.
The sugar men, he added, were never
i'll favor of the bounty plan, but pre-
fcrred the import duty. They would
not, he said, ask for protection in the
sense it is understood by Mr.. McKin-
ley, but would be content With II
revenue duty Of say 1 Il cents per
pound on raw sugars and 3-S cents
on sugars refined above the 1G stand
ard.
From the foundation of the govern
ment till the present bounty law went
into effect, sugar had been recognized
rs an article from which revenue could
legitimately be derived and one which
would be more evenly distributed
than almost any other.
1t was, he asserted, folly for the
government, with revenues, running
low, to cut off $6SOOO.OOO of revenue
which it obtained during the last year
for the foreign sugar taxed Four
hundred thousand people would be
deprived of the means of livelihood in
Louisiana alone by the Wilson meas
ure.