New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1893-11-29
duced from . to cent pound lead
paints are cCisDicnOnslv reduced

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on opium, prepared for smoking. to $40
a pound, in the VAN hope of lessening
its importation. The custom house Off
GERS on the Pacific coast declare that this
increase OF duty has simply placed it in
the hands OF smugglers, the bringing Of
OPIUM, to tie Generalization Of the Gus
TIL service and the less of over $500, 900
revenue. The duty proposed is believed
TO be collectible, and will put the traffic
! under governmental control and super
vision
Eron AK! Steel Schedule.
In the iron and steel schedule, we be-
gin with free ore. The discovery OF the
immense deposits Of Besselner ores in
the lake regions and O. foundry ores in
| Alabama has rapidly swept US to the
leadership OF the world in the production
OF IRON and steel, and LiC~s22ll1t neCr at
hand an undisputed supremacy in the
great field. Of manufactures. The use of
steam shovels reduces the cost Of min
! Ing to point where the wages paid
natural labor are irrelevant. Pig iron
! we reduced from $6.75 per ton, which is
from 81 to 80 per cent, to a uniform Of
! ~ IL per cent, a rate somewhat higher
III proportion than the rest Of the sched-
, ule, because of cheap freight rates on
foreign pig, it being afavorits freight on
| westward voyages. Steel rails we re-
duce from 1914 per ton, now rs per
cent, to 20 per cent.
The residue OF the schedule varies
from 25 to 30 per cent. Beams and
orders are 80 per cent, because Of the
waste OF cutting beams and the variety
OF lengths, and also of the frequent
necessity Of changing the rolls in max
ing beams and Orders, because of the
irregular quantity and lengths and sizes
; OF orders. Tin plates are reduced to 40
per cent, little more than one half of
the Mckinley rate. This is a revenue
duty, and at the same time enough to
permit any existing mills to live and
: flourish.
Both copper ores and pig copper are
made free; we being large exporters of
the latter and the duty serving only to
enable the producer to sell higher to our
people than to foreigners. Nickel is
free. Lead ore has small duty OF 10
per cent. Fig lead l cent pound Sill
ver-lead ores are restored to the free list.
. Unmanufactured lumber is free. Man.
uiactured is put at - per cent with the
provlso that III case Of any export duty or
charge On foreign ]umher. it shall be
; admitted only at the rates now existing.
Sugar Was Difficult.
Sugar has been a difficult sub
! ject to deal with. Raw sugar was
transferred to the free list by the Nc
! klnley bill because nearly all the taxes
f! paid on it went to the public treasury.
A strong desire amongst the members of
! the committee was to put an advalorem
duty OF 30 or IS per cent on it, and to
abolish the bounty at once After much
consideration, it was decided to reduce
to one-half the duty on refined sugars
and to repeal the bounty one-eight each
| year, leaving raw sugar untaxed at
| present.
! In the tobacco schedule those rates
We're sought which would bring most
revenue. The present taxes Of ~. rs per
pound On wrapper leaf tobacco have
blOtted out many small establishments.
and actually impaired revenue. We
make the rates 81 and ST. rs per pound
on wrapper leaf, and IS and 50 per cent
on filler tobacco, unstemmed and
stemmed in each. Manufacturers Of to-
| bacco are put at 40 cents. Cigars are
reduced from $40 pei ound and - per
! cent ad valore,n, to So i y 7>o,i,l; and %
per cent. It is beliey I: 20 b.. the most
productive revenue rat. and is higher
than the law of 1868.
! Live animals are put at 20 per cent.
Barley is reduced from 30 cents Der
hushel to 20 per cent, which is about u
cents.
Breadstuffs are made free, except
when imported from countries putting
duties on our like products, in which
case it is 20 per cent.
! 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.
| In cotton manufactures substantial re-
auctions are made, especially on cheap
cloths and prints and the existing system
of taxing by count Of thread in the
square inch is retained. Hemp and fax
are made free.
As to Wool and Wooden Goods.
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
century and that we may get wooden
goods at reasonable rates instead of at
duties that on the common grades fire.
quently reach 100 per cent, and in cases
two or three times that merciless
figure. Cloths and dry goods are
put at 40 per cent: clothing
at As per cent-rates higher than the
committee desired. but deemed temper
arily necessary because our manufac-
turers have SO long been excluded from
two-thirds Of the wool Of the world that
they will have to learn the act Of manu-
featuring with free wool. A sliding