The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1893-12-06

the Mckinley bill. after each
house had openly voted for a lower duty,
we put at Is cents a gallon. Pig lead
is reduced from cents to l cent. Lead
paints are conspicuously reduced. The
Mckinley bill increased the duty on
opium prepared for smoking TO S12
pound I'm the vain hope Of lessening It's
Importation. The custom house officers
on the Pacific coast declare that this in
crease OF duty has simply placed ii in
the hands of smugglers, 10 the democrat
ization of the custom service and the
loss or over a half a million revenue
The duty proposed il believed to be coll
lectible, and will put the traffic under
government control and supervision. In
the pottery schedule reductions are
from the high schedule in which 81 mys-
teriously crowned itself. Decorated
ware is reduced from 60 TO 40 per cent,
undecorated from SO TO 40 per cent.
I'm common window-glass, where close
combinations have kept up the prices
10 consumers under the scale Of duties
averaging a hundred per cent, a re-
duction of more than one-half has been
made in eli the larger sizes There is
no doubt that these rates Will permit
very healthy growth Of the industry
here. In plate glass reductions are
30 cents per square foot; on silvered,
from 60 cents 10 80 cents.
Iron and Steel.
'In the iron and steel schedule we
begin with free ore. The discovery of
the immense deposits of bessemer ores
in the lake regions and the foundry ores
in Alabama has rapidly 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 a point where the wages paid nat
ural labor are irrelevant. Pig iron we
reduce from S6.72 per ton, which is from
80 TO 80 per cent, TO a uniform duty or
22h per cent, a rate somewhat higher
in proportion than the rest of the sched
ule, because of cheap freight rates on
foreign pig, 1t being a favorite freight
on westward voyages. Steel rails we
reduce from S1344 per ton now 75 per
cent, to 20 per cent AS the pool which
has kept up prices so many years in this
country seems now disorganized the
other producers will soon need protec-
ton. more against Mr. Carnegie at Pitts
burg and Mr.. Sterling at Chicago, than
against foreign producers.
THE residue of the schedule varies
from % to 80 per cent.
Beams and Orders are 80 per
cent. because of the waste of cut
ting beams, and the variety of lengths
and also Of the frequent necessity of
changing the rolls in making beams and
Orders, because Of the irregular quanti-
ties and lengths and sizes of orders.
TEMPLATES are reduced TO 40 per cent,
a little more than one-half Of the Nc
Kinley rate. This is a revenue duty,
and at the same time enough to permit
any existing mills to live and flourish.
q pttf1arNr a "a
per cent, higher grades 40. Table cut
lery is put at 80 per cent. There are
very substantial reductions from present
rates which, being specific, reach, in
sune grades of pocket cutlery as high as
80 per cent, but with release of taxes
on raw materials, especially on pearl and
ivory for handles, seems ample.
Copper, Nickel and Lead.
Both copper and pig. iron are made
Free we being large exporters Of the lat
ter and the duty serving only TO enable
the producer to sell higher to our peo-
pie than to foreigners. Nickel is free.
Pig lead, cent a pound. Lead ores
are restored to the free list.
'Unmanufactured lumber is free; man
ufactured is put at % per cent, with
the proviso that in any export duties
or charges on foreign lumber it shall
be admitted only at the rates now eX-
listing.
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 amongst members OF the COM
mittee was to put an AID valorem duty
Of 20 or % per cent. on it and to abol-
ish the bounty at once. After much con-
sideration il was decided to reduce to
one-half the duty on refined sugars and
to repeal the bounty one-eighth each
year leaving raw sugar untaxed at
present.
I'm the tobacco schedule those rates
were sought which would bring most
revenue The present taxes of $2.75 per
pound on wrapper leaf have blotted
many smaller establishments and &C
tually impaired revenue. We make the
rates 81 and $175 per pound on wrap
per leaf and 80 cents and so cents per
pound on filler tobacco unstemmed and
stemmed in each. Cigars are reduced
from $3.50 per pound and 20 per cent.
ad Valorem TO SO per pound and 20 per
cent. 1t is believed to be the most pro-
ductive revenue rate and is higher than
the law of 1868.
Breadstuffs.
Live animals are put at 20 per cent.
Barley is reduced from 80 cents per
bushel to 20 per cent. which is about II
cents. Breadstuffs, of which we are inn
mense exporters, are made free, except
when imported from countries putting
duties on our like products, in which
case it is 20 per cent. Vegetables, fruit,
eggs and like food products are untaxed
for the benefit of our own consumers,
largely the working people Of the cities.
Salt in bulk is free; in packages the
salt is free, but the covering dutiable at
rates prescribed for like articles.
1.-The tariff on spirits is put at double
the internal revenue rates on like spirits,
and some slight reduction is made on
still wines, malt liquors, ginger ale and
like beverages in the interest of in
creased revenue. The duty on sparkling
wines is likewise lightly reduced for the
same reason as that on champagne, being
at 81 per dozen quarts, as against IS in
the Mckinley bill and So in the law of
1888
Hemp and flax are made free; dressed
line of hemp and fax, ! cent and IL
cent, respectively. Burlaps and cotton
and grain bagging are put at 10 per
articles to be exported are duty free.
Wool Made Free.
"Wool is made free. This takes the
silt from under wooden manufactures
and begets the hope that they may re-
cover from the languishing condition In
which they have been for quarter of a
century and that we may get wooden
goods at reasonable rates instead of at
duties that on the common grades fro