St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-11-28

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flourish. Cheaper grades of pocket cut
lery are 81 per cent, higher grades 45.
Table cutlery is put at So per cent.
These are very substantial reductions
from present rates, which, being specific,
reach in some grades of pocket cutlery
as high as 80 per cent, but with release
of tax on raw material, especially on
pearl and ivory for handles. seem
ample. Both copper ores and pig cop
per ale made free; we being large eX-
porters of the latter, and the duty
serving only to enable
H PRODUCER
to sell higher to our people than to for
eigners. Nickel is free. Lead ore has
a small duty of Is per cent. Pig lead
II cent a pound. Silver lead ores are
restored to the free list. Unmanufact-
ured lumber is free. Manufactured is
put at % per cent, with the proviso that
In case of export duties or charges on
foreign lumber, it shall be admitted
only at the rate now existing.
Su tar has been a difficult subject to
deal with. Raw sugar was transferred
to he free list by the Mckinley bill be-
cause nearly all the taxes paid on it
went to the public treasury. A strong
desire amongst members of the commit
tee was to put an al valorem duty of 20
or % per cent on it, and to abolish the
bounty at once. After much cOnsidera-
ton 1t was decided to reduce 10 one
half the duty on refined sugars, aud TO
repeal the bounty one-eighth each year.,
leaving raw sugar untaXed as at pres
ent.
In the tobacco schedule those rates
were sought which would bring most
revenue. The present taxes of S2.75
per pound on wrapper leaf have blotted
ont many small establishments and
actually impaired revenue. We make
the rates 81 and S1.75 per pound Oh
wrapper leaf, and 80 and SO cents per
pound Oh filler tobacco, unstemmed and
stemuled in each. Manufactures of
tobacco are pu. at 40 per cent. Cigars are
reduced from $3.50 per pound and %
per cent ad valorem to So per pound and
% per cent. 1t is believed to be the
most productive
REVENUE RATE,
and is higher than the law of 1868.
Live animals are put at 20 per cent.
Barley is reduced fiom 80 cents per
bushel to 20 per cent, which is about II
cents.
Breadstuffs, of which we are immense
exporters. are made free. except when
imported from countries putting duties
on our like products, III which case it is
20 per cent.
Fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs. and
like food products are untaXed for the
benefit OF our own consumers, largely
the working people of the cities.
Salt Ill bulk Is free; in packages the
salt Is free, but the covering dutiaDle at
rates prescribed for like articles. The
tariff on spirits is put at double the in
ternal revenue rates on like spirits, and
some Slight reduction is made OH still
wines. malt liquors, ginger ale and like
beverages in the interest of Increased
revenue. The duty on sparkling wine
Is likewise slightly reduced for the same
reason, that on champagne being put at
81 per dozen quarts. as against IS in the
Mckinley bill and So in the law of 1888.
In cotton manufactures substantial re-
ductionS are made, especially Oh cheap
cloths and prints, and the existing syS-
tenn of taxing by count of thread in the
square inch is retained. Hemp and flax
are made free; dressed linen of hemp
aud flax, l and IL cents, respectively.
BurlapS ana ton and grain baggiug
are put al l per cent, but when i'm
ported for Covering of articles to be eX-
ported, are
DUTY FREE.
Wool is made free. This takes the
Silt from under WOODEN manufactures
and begets the hope that they may re-
from the langulshing condition i'll
Which they have been for a quarter of a
century and that we may get wooden
goods at reasonable rates instead OF at
duties that on the comulO grades fire.
quently reach 100 per cent. and in some
cases two or three times that mercilesS
figure. Clothes ana dry goods are put
at 40 per cent, clothing at 10 per cent
rates nighertlan the committee desired,
u deemed temporarily necessary be-
cause our manufacturers have SO long
been excluded from twO-thirdS of tue
wool of the world that they will have to
learn the art of manufacturing with
free wool. A sliding scale is therefore
added, by which the rates i'll the wooden
schedule are to come down five points
with the lapse Of five years. Carpets.a an
industry in which VIZ will soon be indie
pendent of competitions are put at 80
per cent for Administers MoquetteS and
WiltOnS, 80 per cent for Brussels, while
common grades 60 from60 down to 20 per
cent. The bill provides that the duty
shall be removed from wool Oh March l,
II reduced OF wooden goods July /.
In the silk schedules the reduction of
rates is smaller thai in cotton or wooden
fabrics. Sole leather is reduced from
10 to 5 per cent. Leather goods are
uniformly rated at
SPECIFIC DUTIES
which average not over % per cent on
the common varieties and nearly 40 per
cent on the fine lamb and kid gloves.
In the schedule of sundries many ar
ticles, like hatter's plush. are put on
the free list. The duty on cut diamonds.
pearls and other precious stones is in
creased. Works of art are, | am de-
lighted to say. put back on the free
list.
The above is a rapid summary of the
chief changes made by the proposed
bill, and will give a satisfactory Idea, l
believe, of its general structure. 1t is
estimated that it will reduce
on the basis of the iImportations of 1892.
about $50, 000, 900. Something more on
the basis of 1891, with an Immensely
larger decrease of tax burdens to the
American people. The administrative
law is revised, with few amendments
suggested by the experience of its
operation. The law was chiefly pre-
pared by Mr.. Hewitt when he was In
congress-, and the changes proposed in
Our bill are TO make it more effective.
while at the same time softening some
of the features added by the Mckinley
bill that would treat the business of
importing as an outlaWry no entitled TO