The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1893-12-01
WILSON TARIFF BILL.
The Measure That VIII Be offered To
Congress Made Public.
STATEMENTS ISSUED BY MIR. WILSON.
AID valorem Substituted for Specific Du-
ties-ReasOns Given for 1.-THE Main
Features.


mediately after the roll call Chairman
Wilson spread the bill before the COM
mittee and the clerk instantly thereafter
supplied it 10 the members of the press.
Chairman Wilson has issued the fol-
lowing statement in regard to the bill:
The Democratic members of the COM
mittee on ways and means have felt as
none others could feel, the momentous
responsibility resting upon them, and the
magnitude and difficult duty assigned
them of framing the tariff bill for
nation of 20, 600, 900 of people. The com
mittee have welcomed information aud
counsel from every trustworthy source
and while they do not expect
their bill to escape just criticism in
all particulars they do present it to the
country as the result of patient, anxious
thought, and of an honest desire TO dis
charge their duty, purged of all faint Of
local and personal favoritism or preju-
dice. It's main features are two:
First-The adoption wherever it !
of specific duties.
SecondIy-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 con-
ceal rate of taxation too enormous to
be submitted to if exposed in ad Yalorem
terms, as the duty of cents a hundred
pounds on salt in bulk. which amounts
to over so per cent on common neces-
sity of life. They always bear heavily
on the common articles used by the
masses and slightly upon the expensive
article consumed by the rich.
Changes In Sugar Bounty Law.
The bill repeats the provision of the
present law for sugar bounties by in
stallments, by providing that these
bounties shall be reduced one-eighth
part of their respective amounts each
year, beginning with July 1, 1895, and
extending to July 1, 1902, inclusive,
and shall thereafter cease.
The Wilson bill also reduces the duty
on all sugars above IS standard from
6-f0 of cent per pound to $40 of
cent.
On all leaf tobacco, or such part
thereof as is commercially known as
wrapper tobacco and suitable for cigar
wrappers, if unstemmed, the duty to be
81 per pound; if stemmed, $1.25 per
pound. The present duty is 81 and
50. 75 per pound. All other leaf tobacco,
if unstemmed, is fixed at 80 cents per
pound; if stemmed, 90 cents per pound,
as at present.
Cigars, oheroots and cigarettes of all
kinds, including wrappers, So per pound
and 20 per cent ad valoreln. The pres
ent duty is 81 per pound and % per
cent.
Spool thread of cotton containing
1-inch spool, not exceeding 100 yards of
thread, AZ cents per dozen, and also for
every additional 100 yards of thread
AZ cents per pound. Present law z
cents per pound.
Tariff on Wearing Apparel.
Clothing ready-made and articles of
wearing apparel OF every description;
handkerchief, composed of cotton or veg
etable fibre, or of which cotton or other
vegetable fibre is the component mate
rial of chief value, 90 per cent ad va
loren. Present law So per cent.
Pushes, velvets, velveteens, ETC., not
bleached, dyed or colored, 30 per cent ad
Valoreln. Present law 10 cents per yard
and 20 per cent.
Stockings, hose and half hose made on
knitting machinery or frames, shirts and
drawers, valued at not more than $3.50
per dozen, 80 per cent adj valorem.
Ths classification in the wool schedule
proper was disposed of in two short sec
lions. The first provides that wool, hair,
etc., improved or advanced beyond its
original condition as wasted by the use
of machinery or the application of labor,
or both, shall be subject to duty of Is
per cent ad valorem.
The second, that on like material val
ued at not more than 80 cents per pound,
the duty shall be 25 per cent; valued at
over IS cents per pound the duty shall be
80 per cent.
On wooden or worsted cloths, shawls,
knit fabrics and other manufactures 40
per cent ad valorem.
On women's and children's dress goods,
coat Innings, bunting and goods of sim
liar description or character, 40 per
cent ad vaiorem.
On cloaks, dolmans, jackets, ulsters
or other outside garments for ladies and
children's apparel, 45 per cent ad val
orem. Present law 49, cents perpound
and % per cent al YaloreIn.
The bill provides that on all rates Of
duties in the wooden schedules, except
on carpets, there shall be reduction of
cent on the 100 on the 1st Of July,
1896, and thereafter a like amount on
the list of July, 1897, 1898, 1899 and 1900.
Reciprocity on Farm Products.
The agricultural schedule includes al
most all farm products and provisions.
Many changes have been made, specific
duties being changed to ad valorem in
many Instances. All live animals not
placed on the free list by this bill are
made liable to 20 per cent ad valorem,
the same as the present law. Other
farm products are as follows: Buck
wheat, corn or maize. corn meal, cat
meal, rye -four, wheat and wheat -four,
20 per cent, but each of tbs above prod
ucts shall be admitted free of duty from
any country which imposes no import
duty on the like products when exported
from the United States.
Grapes 20 per cent ad yalorenl, pras-
sent law 60 cents per baEsal-