Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-02
THE TARIFF BILL ,
MIR. Tarsney Discusses the Measure
He Helped to Frame.
NOT SIMPLY REVISION, But REFORM.
National and Not Sectional Inter-
ests or Special Industries.
THE POLICY URSUED.
T H E POLICY PURS UED.
The Palais Royal.

Representative Tarsney of the WAYS and
means committee. who was a member of the
subcommittee which prepared the rough
oratt OF the tariff bill. said to a Star re-
porter yesterday, in discussion of the bill
and the purposes which guided the COM
mittee in their work:
Inc general idea and purpose of the
committee was to frame a revenue measure
as distinguished from a protection measure
IN tnls view, revenue should be the object
and not the incident of the measure If
protection should remain. such protection
snould De the mere incident and not the
oDIecl OF the Dill. 1t cannot be said 10 be a
Dill 10 obtain revenues only for If such
mad been the case there would be no on
iargement of the free list and MANY rev.
enue producing commodities that are now
upon the free list would have been trans
TERED to the taxed schedules
. Inc main purpose. however, was to make
II Dill to produce revenue modified by
those controlling considerations that mate
rials essentially necessary to permit and
oevelop the growth of our manufacturers
should to the largest degree practicable he
placed upon the free list: that food products
anu anu otner essential necessities should be
eltner placed upon the free list or taxation
thereon be reduced to a minimum Pater
nahsm and favoritism to either individuals.
localtles or special Industries should be
entirely eradicated. This is the groundwork
OF the measure.
A Reform of the Tariff
TT Is not simply a revision of the tariff
1t is reform of the tariff. Time will de-
velop that it contains no elements of nra-
JUDGE or animosity against any particular
industry or attack upon the manufacturing
Industries, but to the contrary. it is in
tended and will speedily result in the rand
growth. development and expansion of our
industries upon a broad national basis and
not upon a narrow basis of selfish personal
local or sectional interest.
while taking away from the manufactur-
er much of the so-called protection found in
the schedule of rates on manufactured pro-
ducts, by giving to him untaxed raw ma
terial essential in his manufacture we leave
to him all that should be required to enable
him to compete with the world in the dispo-
sition of his products. The bill is peculiarly
impersonated. as it reflects the ideas and
interests of those represented by the men
who framed its provisions. The subcom-
mitteeS that framed the measure consisted
of Chairman Wilson, MeSsrs. Stevens of
Massachusetts. Bynum of Indiana, Breckin-
ridge of Arkansas and Tarsney.
The principal productions and Industries
of West Virginia, represented by Mr.. Will
son, are iron and coal. Coal and iron ore
were placed upon the free list and duties
on iron products largely reduced
MIR. Stevens has his entire fortune in
vested in the manufacture of woolens and
wooden goods, and his state represents
the greatest cotton manufacturing industry
of the United States. These industries
have been treated no differently from others
represented in the schedule. Mr.. Bynum
of Indiana represents the district embrace
ing the center of the plate glass, window
glass and other glass industries of the coun-
Try They, Ike WOODEN and cotton, conform
ed to the general reduction. Indeed, the
reductions in these very schedules are par
ticularly heavy.
MfssOurf's IutereSts.
Missouri, with its plate glass. its iron,
It's lead and zinc productions followed in
the same scale. While the duty on Missouri
pig lead has been reduced one-half, the
duty on white lead and other products Of
lead controlled by the lead trusts of the
east have met with a still greater reduc-
ton.
Under the Mckinley law there was a
duty OF Ii cents per pound on zinc, either
| block or pig, and IL cents per pound
on sheet zinc. This afforded no protection
10 the zinc producers of Missouri, because
there was no importation of pig zinc into
the United States. on the contrary, Mis-
souri, ENC was exported to Swansea, the
center OF the zinc production of Europe.
but so long as such as a tax was main
talned II was absolutely impossible for the
capitalists at the center of the zinc region
TO organize an enterprise for the reduction
of zinc into plate that business being
controlled by monopoly elsewhere. There
rore they We're compelled to send their zinc
abroad TO be manufactured They Will
now have an opportunity. aided by outside
influences, TO break this monoDoly and
enable them to establish zinc plate manu-
features upon an equal basis with all
others.
In the wooden and cotton schedules of
the Mckinley bill, under cover of specittc
duties by the pound or yard absolutely
prohibitory rates were provided In the
wooden scheduIe the ad valorem equivalent