The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1893-12-01
COMMENTS ON THE BILL.

Wilson, of the house ways and means
committee, has issued the following
statement in regard to the tariff re-
form bill:
The democratic me6kbers Of the COMMITTEES
on ways and means nave felt, as none others
could feel, the monentous responsibilitv rest
ing upon them, and the magnitude, dimculty
and delicacy of the duty assigned them OF
framing the tariff bill for nation OF 1o0o9.ooO
of people.
The bill they were called upon to reform Is
vast and labyrinthian sy stem OF GLASS taxation,
the elimination OF thirty years control OF the
taxing power by few great interests gather
ing in to their train a host Of petty toll gather.
ing. It was carefully framed to prevent as
long as possible, what its author called any
monkeying with the tariff. by which Is meant
any successful effort OF the people to undo or
to lessen the bounties which its benehciaries
were permitted to write therein, in their own
words and their own figure 1t transferred to
the free list proper and fruitful venue articles
where most Of the taxes paid by the people
were received by their movement, and greatly
Increased the rates of these articles, where all
or most all of the taxes paid by the people
went into private Golfers
Such are the conditions that confronted US at
the threshold of our work. The committee
have welcomed Information and counsel from
every trustworthy source, and. while they do
not expect their bill to escape just criticism IN
all it's details they do present it to the country
as the result of months Of patient anxious toll,
and Of an honest desire to discharge their duty,
purged of all taint Of local and personal FAVOR
itism or prejudice
ton wherever it seemed practicable, OF ad va.
loren instead of specific duties secondly, the
| freeing from taxes Of those great materials OF
| industry that lie at the base Of production
Specific rates Of duty are Objectionable FOR
| these reasons: They frequently conceal rate
| of taxation too enormous to be submitted to II
| exposed in ad valorem terms, as the duty OF
| eight cents 100 pounds salt in bulk which
| amounts to over 80 per cent on common ne
| cessity OF life They always bear heavily on
| the common article used by the masses and
| slightly on the expensive article cons umed by
| the rich, as tax OF $50 on all houses
would be nothing on the great man
| sion and very high on the humble
| home And contrary to common belief
specific duties lead to greater frauds in admin
| tration, for counting and weighing at the Gus
| tom house are done by the cheapest and most
| easily corrupted labor, while ad valorem rates
are assessed by the best paid and most respon-
| sible appraisers The ad valorem system has
| worked well in practice, is essentially the fair
| system, because it is tax upon the actual
| value OF article, and was declared by Mr..
| Clay himself to be in theory and according to
! every sound principle Of justice entitled to the
preference and vindicated by long trial
| The boldest innovation of the bill is its large
| free list Of the raw materials. Taxes upon pro
| duction are double wrongs. They gather and
| accumulate on the consumers Of the finished
| products They hurt labor by narrowing the
| market for what it produces
| Sugar has been difficult subject to deal
! with; raw sugar was transferred to the free
list by the Mckinley bill, because nearly all the
taxes paid on it went to the public treasury.
| strong desire among members Of the committee
| was to put an ad valorem duty of 20 or y per
| cent on 1t and to abolish the bounty at once.
/ rlfi inn w de tO
duce to one half the duty on refined sugars and
to repeal the bounty one-eigh each year
leaving raw sugar untaxed as at present
GOV. M'KINLEY's OPINION.
| CLEVELAND, O., Nov. 2S.-Gov. Nc
Kinley arrived in Cleveland yesterday
evening. He was asked his opinion o.
the Wilson tariff bill. He said he haG
not read the abstract of the measure
and had only glanced through Mr.. Will
sons review of it. He said the bill
proposed very sweeping reductions il
the existing tariffs. 1t was such {
measure as he had expected, yet little
more sweeping than he had antici
pated. 1t was, however, in lin.
with the expressed determine
ton of the democracy to ig
more the business interests ant
the working people of the country
The Objectionable feature of the bill
Mr.. Mckinley said, was the substitu
tion of ad valorem for specific duties
That alone ought to defeat the entir
. measure. The ad valorem system, h
said, rests upon the foreign valuation
, which is hard to determine, and i
puts a premium upon under-valuatiol
& frauds. All the leading nations of tn
world, he declared, had abandoned tn
ad valorem system of levying tariff du
ties, for the reason that the valuation
, is made thousands of miles from tn
port of entry and can never be depend
ed upon.
VIEWS OF HENRY CLEws & CO.
New YORK, Nov. 2S.-The weekl
, | financial review, issued by Henry Clew
& Co., commenting on the new tarii
/ bill to be reported by the committee o.
S ways and means at the opening of COZ
. | gress, says: ''Its purport has certainl
= not tended to confirm the fear
that had previously been ente,
tanned among manufacturers. L
4 | respect to raw materials,
r makes important transfers from tn
dutia BILE to the free list; which can onl
be regarded as a valuable gain for ceI
tain large industries Contrary to CON
c mon general expectation, the change
of duty on manufactures express a lii
) eral Interpretation of Mr.. Cleveland
predictions in favor of moderate RI
l. ductions, and the extravagant demand
of democratic doctrinaires are for tn
q most part disregarded. The element {
protection in the tariff is certainly n
r duced, but it still, as a rule, seems
remain protective, except possibly to
class of manufacturers who are nc
: well equipped for competin
l. with home producers even. 1t
y true. there are intimations that tn
unexpected moderation has been adop
l. ed as part and parcel of a policy {
eliminating the protective elemen,
through a series of successive redu
y tions of duty; but it is needless to bo
lrow trouble from that contingency, fo
in the first place it is remote, and
+ the next the common sense of the pc,
e pie may be safely left to decide whs
Y shall or shall not be done after this e,
/, pertinent.
n Wolves Work Havoc.
d HELENA, Mont, Nov. 2s.-Stockme
E n the eastern and northern parts of th
state suffered immense losses last yea
from the ravages of the wolves, whic
!. 1ad not been SO numerous and bold fc
"a ,ears Reports are being received tha
Is .hese animals are again appearing O
- he ranges in such numbers that the