Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1893-12-06
hese exports from foreign countries.

ror WOODEN cloth and dress goods
there is very large cut. The McKin-
ley law places specific and ad valorem
duties on these articles, which may be
illustrated by the rate on wooden and
worsted cloths, at thirty three cents per
pound and forty per cent. ad valorem.
The new bill proposes duty of 40 and
40 per cent. ad valorem, abolishing the
specific duty. The same applies to hats,
fiannels, etc. On carpets there is gen.
eral reduction in all lines to rates equiv
alent to 20 and 30 per cent, according
to the quality. Having no specific rate
of duty, the foreigner, regulating his
price by this market, can make the du-
ty as low as he sees fit. The reduction
of the duty 80 per cent. on leaf tobacco
throws open to competition from Sum-
atra and other foreign markets the
home product of the farmers of Con-
necticut, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin,
Marylanu ana virginia.
To all agricultural products the ad
valorem system is applied. The rate
on horses and mules is reduced from
S35 head to S22 and 20 per cent. ad
valorem barley from 20 cents bush
ell to 20 per cent. ad valorem; buck
wheat, corn, cornmeal and the like is
placed on the free list macaroni is re-
duced from cents pound to twenty
five cents ad valorem rice from two
cents pound to one and half cent
a concession to the brewers); butter
from o to A cents pound, cheese from
0 cents to 20 per cent. ad valorem; beans
from 40 cents per bushel to 40 per cent.
ad valorem eggs from cents dozen
to the free list hay from SO a ton to
the free list hops to cents per pound
(another concession to the brewers) ;
onions from 40 cents per bushel to 20
cents, potatoes from 25 cents to 10 cents
bushel, fiaxseed from 30 to 25 cents a
bushcI and like cuts throughout the
entire schedule.
In common manufactures a general
reduction is made. This is we'll illus
trated by the rate on spool cotton,
which is reduced from Z cents dozen
to four and half cents, in the interest
of the English mills. Cotton cloths
are reduced from 4 cents to cents,
doubtless for the same reason, although
goods in this line can now be purch
ased for less than the Mckinley rates,
The general reduction in cotton exceeds
33t per cent, and will bear heavily up
on manufacturers of sail Gle tn and the
like in Maryland and Connecticut. 1t
is noticeable fact that ladies hosiery
in the lower grades pays duty of 80
per cent. under the Wilson Tariff Bill,
and on 80 per cent. on the high grades
worn by the rich.
Even the paper manufacturer did not
escape, although every newspaper pub
Usher appreciates that, under protec-
tive tariff, the price of papers and
books has decreased in the past ten
years. Wood pulp and chemically
prepared wood pulp are reduced from
SO 80 and 81 per ton to 10 per cent. ad
valorem. This threatens to close up
the wood pulp factories of New Eng
land and New York. Printing paper
is reduced from 10 and 20 per cent. tc
12 per cent. ad valorem, and copying
paper, the manufacture of which hai
been established largely since the Nc
Kinley law went into effect, has be Ell
reduced from cents per pound and Il
per cent. ad valorem to % per cent. &C
valorem. This is duplicate of tn,
rate of the law of 1888, under which tn,
copying paper manufacturers, withou
exception, went out of business, anC
were only revived by the adoption O.
the Mckinley act.
The free list ranges through an al
phabetical list of articles covering
thirty pages of the new bill, and in
cludes iron ore, coal, wool, copper, ore
silver, lead ore, lumber and raw sugar