The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1893-12-09

DelleNed 10 De coilectaDie, ana VIII
put the traffic ander the government
control and supervision.
In the pottery schedule reductions
are made. Plain white ware is de-
creased from the high schedule in
which it mysteriously crowded itself.
Decorated ware is reduced from so
to As per cent. Undecorated from 55
to 45 per cent. In common window
glass, where a close combination has
kept up the prices to consumers un,
der the scale of duties averaging a
hundred per cent, reduction of
more than one half has been made in
all the larger sizes. There is no
doubt that these rates will permit a
very healthy growth of the industry
here. In plate glass reductions are
made, the largest size from fifty
cents to thirty cents per square foot.
IN THE IRON AND STEEL sUHEDULE
we begin with free ore. The discov-
cry of the immense deposits Of Bees
semer ores in the lake regions and of
foundry ores in Alabama, has rapid
ly swept us to the leadership of the
world in the production of iron and
steel and brought near at hand an
undisputed supremacy in the great
field of manufactures. The use of
steam shovels reduces the cost of
mining to point where the wages
paid natural labof" are irrelevant.
Pig iron we reduce from $6.72 per
ton, which is from so to 80 per cent,
to uniform duty of 224 per cent,
G rate somewhat higher in proper
tion than the rest of the schedule,
because of cheap freight rates on
foreign pig, it being favorite
freight on westward voyages. Steel
rails we reduce from $13.44 per ton.
now rs per cent, to rs per cent. AS
the pool which has kept up prices
so many years in this country seems
now disorganized, the other pro-
ducers will soon need protection,
more against Mr.. Carnegie at Pitts
burg and Mr.. Stirling at Chicago
than against foreign producers. The
residue of the schedule varies from
% to 30 per cent. Beams and Cir
ders are 35 per cent. because of the
waste in cutting beams and the var
iety of lengths and also of the fire.
quent necessity of changing the
rolls ia making beams and girders.
because Of the irregular quantities
and lengths and size of orders. Tin
plates are reduced TO 40 per cent,
a little more than one-half of the
Mckinley rate. This is revenue
duty and at the same time enough to
permit any existing mills.
TO LIVE AND FLOURISH
Cheaper grades of pocket cutlery
are S5 per cent, higher grades, As
There are very substantial reduc.
tons from present rates, which be.
ing specific, reach in some grades OF
pocket cutlery as high as 80 per
cent, but with the release OF taxes
on raw material, especially on pearl
and ivory for handles, seem ample,
Both copper ores and pig copper are
made free, we being large exporters
Of the latter, and the duty serving
only TO enable the producers to sell
higher TO our people than to foreign
ers. Nickle is free Lead ore has a
small duty fl5 per cent, pig lead,
one cent a pound. Silver lead ores
are restored to the free list. I'm
manufactured lumber is free. Man.
ufactured is put a. 25 per cent with
the proviso that where there are any
export duties or charges on foreign
lumber, it shall be admitted only at
rates now existing.
Sugar has been difficult subject
to deal With. Raw sugar was trans
fered to the free list by the McKin-
ley bill, because nearly all the taxes
paid'on it went to he public treasu-
ry. A strong desire amongst mem
bers of the committee was to put an
adj valorem of 20 OF % per cent. on it,
and to abolish the bounty at once.
After much consideration it was de-
cided to reouce one half the duty on
refined sugars, and to repeal the
bounty one eighth each year, leav-
ing raw sugar untaxed as at pres
ent.
INTHE TOBACCO SCHEDULE
those rates were sought which would
bring most revenue. The present
taxes of 1915 per pound on wrapper
leaf have blotted out many small es-
Establishments and actually impaired
revenue. We make the rates 81 and
81 rs per pound on wrapper leaf, and