Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-30
TARIFF FOR REVENUE ONLY.
A Performance of the Promises
Made to the People.


WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Mr. Wilson,
the chairman of the ways and means
committee, has prepared the following
statement which was given out this
morning with the new Tariff bill:
The Democratic members of the COM
mittee of ways and means have felt, as
none others could feel, the momentous
responsibility resting upon them and
the surprising magnitude, difficulty and
deicacy of the duty assigned them of
framing Tariff bill for a nation of
70.000,000 of people.
The bill they were called on to reform
is a vast and labyrinthan system of class
taxation, the elimination Of 80 years
control of the taxing powers by few
great interests, gathering on to their
train u host of petty toll gatherers. 1t
was carefully framed to prevent, as long
us possible, what its author called "any
monkeying with the tariff" by which
he meant any successful effort of the
people to undo or TO lessen the bounties
which its beneficiaries were permitted
to write therein, in their own words and
their own figures. 1t transferred to the
free list proper and fruitful revenue
articles, where most of the taxes
paid by the people Were received
by their government, and greatly
| increased the rates on those articles
where all or most of the taxes paid by
| the people went into private Golfers.
And it was burthened about by many
defences, chief among which are a swept
| and garnished treasury and swollen
and colossal scale of permanent ex-
| penditures. Such are the conditions
that confronted us at the threshold of
| our work. The committee have well
coined information and counsel from
every trustworthy source, and while
they do not expect their bill to escape
just criticism in all of its details, they do
present IL to the country as the result of
months of patient, anxious toll, and of
an honest desire to discharge their duty,
purged of all faint of local and personal
fayoritism or prejudice.
THE COMMITTEE MEETS.
The members of the committee were
slow in reaching the Capitol. Mr..
Bynum of Indiana was the first to put
in an appearance. He was followed a
/ little later by Messrs. Tarsney, Mont
gomery, Turner and Wilson.
In the meanwhile the corridors in
front of the committee room began to
fill with newspaper men, representatives
of some of the protected industries and
others interested in tariff legislation.
At 1920 o'clock there were present in
the committee room, Mr.. Wilson, the
chairman; Messrs. Tarsney, Brecken-
ridge, Bynum, Turner and. Bryan, D.,
and Messrs. Reed, Burrows, Dalzell and
Hopkins, Il.
SUMMARY OF THE BILL.
The following summary of the bill
has been prepared by Representative
Bryan of Nebraska:
"rhe bill just completed puts wool
coal, lumber, salt and iron ore on the
free list, and reduces the tariff on sugar
from one-half to oneiquarter of cent
per pound; it also provides for the ex.
termination Of the bounty by degrees.
"As u rule, the tariff has been made
lowest upon the cheaper goods of neces.
sary use and left highest upon the more
expensive articles.
1.-The wool schedule will, perhaps
attract most attention. We have left
> no duty higher than 45 per cent or
manufactures of wool and that only oil
ready-made garments, the average beins
less than 40 per cent. The cheapei
quality of blankets and t1annels art
only taxed 25 per cent, and the lower
grades of carpets only 20.
"We have also applied gradual re
duction TO the wooden schedule, SO tina
at the end of five years, the highes
duty will be 40 cents and the average
near 30 per cent.
"Very material reductions have beer
made in the cotton schedule.
1--WE have placed iron ore on the FREE
list and made large cut all along thu
metal schedule. The duty on steel rail
, is reduced more than 80 per cent.
'Free lumber will be great benefi
to the people of the Prairie States, anC
free salt will give to those who neeC
salt for their cattle or for curing mea.
the same advantage which has beer
secured heretofore by means of rebat,
to those who cured fish.
agricultural implements have beer
placed upon the free list, in order Il
, enable the farmer to better compete il
foreign markets and because many o
our agricultural implements arc beinl
sold abroad to-day cheaper than a
home"
Schedule G relates to metals ant
manufacturers of iron and steel, as fol
Iowa:
Iron in pigs, iron kentledge, spiegel
eisen, ferro-manganese, ferro-silicion
wrought and cast scrap iron, and scral
steel, 221 per centum advalorem; bu
nothing shall be deemed scrap iron o.
scrap steel except waste or refuse iroI
or steel fit only TO be remanufactured.
All iron in slabs, blooms, loops, o.
other forms, more advanced than pis
iron, and less finished than iron in tn,
bars, 25 per centum advalorem.
Bar iron, rolled or hammered rount
, iron, in coils or rods, and bars or shape
of rolled iron, 80 per centum.
Beams, girders, joists, angles anC
channels, car truck channels, L II col
umns and posts or parts of section o
columns and posts, deck and bull
, beams, and building forms, together
with all other structural shapes OF irol
or steel, whether plain or punched o
fitted for use, 80 per centum.
Boiler or other plate iron or steel, ex
cept saw plates, hereinafter provided
, for, not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge
speared or unspeared, and skelp iron o
steel speared or rolled in grooves, 80 pc
,, centum.
Forgings of iron or steel, or forge
iron or steel combined, of whateve
shape, or in whatever stage of manufac
ture, 80 per centum.
, Hoop, band, or scroll iron or steel, 81
per centum.
, Wire rods, rivet, screwed, fence ant
, other iron or steel wire rods and mai
. rods, 80 per centum.
Wire-Iron or steel wires and wire o
= strip steel, commonly known as crino