New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-11-29

pointed to the walker tariff Of 1876 as q clear
and shining example Of "a tarin for revenue
only" and they have as constantly and steadily
declared that that was the sort Of tariff they
would make as soon ds they should have the
power to control revenue legislation. But that
is not the sort of tariff that Chairman Wilson
and his colleagues recommend They place wool
on the free list and impose duty of 80 per
cent and So per cent ad valorem wooen
yarns; the Walker tariff imposed duty OF 80
.sper cent ad valorem manufactured wool
!: and IS per cent ad yalorem woollen yarns.
1T also imposed duty Of 30 per cent on all
sugars; andSthe majority Of the Ways and
Means Committee leaves raw sugars the
free list and reduces the duty on refined sugars
to one-fourth Of cent pound, which Is equiva-
lent to an average ,ad valorem duty ofless than
per cent. duty of one and one-half cents
pound which is equivalent to an average ad
valorem duty Of about Al per cent. is imposed
on cleaned rice, and the duty under the Walker
tariff was 20 per cent ad valorem.
Among the articles transferred to the free
list by the majority of the Ways and Means
Committee are the following, which were dutia-
BILE under the Walker tariff at the rates herein
mentioned: Boracic acid. 20 per cent: sulphuric
acid. 10 per cent; ammonia, 10 per cent; anti
mony regulus of. 20 per cent; bristles. per
cent; camphor % and 40 per cent bitumnous
coal. slack culm and coke. 30 per cent; copper,
old and in pigs bars ingots. 5 per cent;
copperas, 20 per cent; hemp. 30 per cent; tow OF
flax and hemp. Is per cent; apples green. ripe
or dried, 20 per cent; flax, manufactured. 10
per cent; hair, curled for mattresses and beds,
20 per cent; hatters' plush, 20 per cent; hides,
raw. and skins of all kinds, dried sailed or
picked, 5 per cent lard, 20 per cent; bacon,
hams and pork. 20 per cent mother OF pearl D
per cent; nickel, per cent; ochre, sienna ana
lumber earths. dry, 80 per cent; quicksilver, ~
per cent; rags, per cent; rattans and reeds,
manufactured, 10 per cent; building stone and
rotten stone, 10 per cent; EPSON salts 20 per
cent; skins raw o. p, 20 per cent; soap, no. p'
80 per cent; tallow, 10 per cent; tin In bars
blocks or pigs, 5 per cent blue vitrfoi ~ per
cent? wood manufactured, 30 per cent. The
duty on pig iron. which was 80 per cent az
valorem under the Walker tariff, is fixed at
22h per cent in the pending BILL
-. THE METAL SCHEDULE.
The rates in the metal schedule. especially that
part of 1t which relates to manufactures OF iron
and steel, the majority of the Ways and Means
Committee has punished about as severely as it
has those in the woollen schedule. 1t Is we'll
known that many of the rates in this schedule
were reduced by the act Of 1890 low as was con-
sistent with safety and all of them were brought
into proper relations with one another Not only
have the correspondence and equilibrium OF
rates been disturbed and in many cases de-
stroyed by the majority, but In great many
cases the duties have been reduced so low that
the manufacture in this country OF the articles
to which they relate will be impossible without
reductions of wages to which the workingInen
will never consent unless driven to do so by pri-
walton and starvation. In this schedule. as In
the wool schedule. the safeguard OF specfc rates
has been virtually swept away What Is true OF
the metal schedule Is true in great degree OF
l..l~ 80 HnAn oil N
several others
Mr. North. in another column has called at
tention to the fact that specific rates are re-
tanned In the cotton schedule (although the re-
auctions in many cases are SO heavy as to in
lure the manufacturers and workingman as
well as the consumer and the National Treas
abolished Probably Mr.. North did not stop
to consider that cotton manufacturing Is an
industry that is firmly planted and making
rapid strides in several Of the cotton states
Especially in Georgia. which are represented
in the Ways and Means Committee by Messrs
Turner of Georgia. McMillip OF Tennessee ana
luded to the fact that Mr.. Stevens. OF Massa-
chusetts, who is a manufacturer OF fannels as
well as member OF the ways ana Means ;n Eo ~
goods that he manufactures placed under the
highest rate in the woollen schedule, along with
other goods which 1t costs much more to produce
In addition to these facts 1t is noted that the
duty on encaustic tiles. decorated. Is reduced
only II per cent as compared WIN ar;ce sea em-
braced in the same schedule. The manufacture
OF encaustic tiles Ia important industry IN
the district represented by Mr.. Bynum. OF lndi-'
ana, who is member of the committee Mr.:
Tarsney, Of Missouri, who Is also a member OF
the committee, represents the Kansas City dis
trict, in which the smelling OF silver lead ore
is an important industry, carried on by a rich
syndicate, with whose operations Mr. Tarsney
is understood to be rather intimately &C
quainted. The ores that this syndicate handle
are Of Mexican origin, and will be admitted
free Of duty II the recommendation Of the ma
jority Of the committee is approved and enacted
into law.
These and other facts relating to details OF
the bill may seem embarrassing to some OF
the members Of the majority. but there u.s. of
course. no reason to suppose that their action
has been Influenced In the slightest degree, much
less controlled. by local considerations or an
undue regard for special interests or industries
The fact that Mr. Whiting. Of Michigan. has
consented that a number Of the most important
Industries Of his State shall be sacrificed on
the altar Of tariff reform" and that Bourke
Cochran to say nothing Of Chairman Wilson,
has consented to the same thing. ought to be
proof enough that the majority Of the committee
has not been and cannot be swayed by local
considerations or undue regard for industries
In which they might be supposed to feel special
interest