The morning call., 1893-11-26
SUGAR AND WOOL.
Some Trouble to Raise
Revenue.
MR.. WILSON'S TARIFF BILL.
He Has Found the Income Tax
a Stumbling Block,
MR. WILSON'S TARIFF BILL.
AND WHISKY BoTnERs HIM TOO,
But Wool Will Be Free and
There Will Be Small Duty
on Sugar.


been but indefinitely treated as yet by
the Ways and Means Committee, and
there is very strong probability that
this point will be left as an after consid-
GRAFTON. The sugar, income and whisky
taxes have not been settled. The sugar
question will have to be settled In this
bill, but it is the expectation now that the
other two will go over and be cared for in
a supplemental bill or an amendment to
the bill reported to come in later.
The most troublesome of these questions
is that of the sugar tax, though there is
alsoa strong minority opposition to the in
come tax Unquestionably the majority
OF the committee are in favor Of abolishing
the sugar bounty and letting raw sugar
remain on the free list. They believe that
sugar is properly revenue item and
should be taxed, but since raw sugar has
been placed on the free list they doubt the
policy of restoring the duty. However,
they seem to be compelled TO choose be-
tween a small duty and the bounty, and
there is probably not Democrat on the
committee, or not more than one certainly,
who will bear of a continuance of the
bounty. A failure therefore to put duty
of some sort on sugar, 1t is believed, would
prevent the bill going through the Senate,
and if the duty is not imposed in the pres
ent bill the omission will be with the ex-
pectation that it will be added In the Sem
ate. The probabilities are that there will
be duty Of not exceeding one cent on re-
fined sugar and quarter of cent less Oh
the raw article.
1t seems to be pretty well settled that
these articles will be placed on the free
list: Wool. iron ore. coal, tin, hemp, fax,
jute, silver. lead ore, copper, salt, crude
borax. binding twines, cotton ties and
lumber not advanced in preparation beyond
saving.
The additions to the free list will be the
occasion of the loss of considerable reve-
nue., and this increase is very great, in
cluding nearly all of the crude and raw
materials used in manufacturing and o
grear number of chemicals.
The woollen schedule is substantially
as in the Springer bill, though it changed
in some particulars, the duties in this bill
being somewhat higher on some of the
finer grades of woollen fabrics and cloth
ing than in the Springer bill. and lower on
common carpets and some of the coarser
fabrics. The schedule is substantially as
follows:
All woods. hair of camel, goat, alpaca
and other like animals. and all wool and
hair on the skin. all top waste. slubbing
waste. rowing waste, ring waste, yarn
waste, card waste, bur waste, rags
and focks, including all waste or
rags composed wholly or in part
of wool, are on the free list. Wooden
and worsted yarns made wholly or in
part of wool, worsted or hair of the
camel, goat, ETC., valued at not more than
80 cents per pound. are rated at 35 per
cent. which is the ad valOrem rate of the
Mckinley bill without the specific duty
which that bill provides. On all wooden
and worsted cloths, shawls and knit fabrics
and all fabrics made on knitting-machines
or frames and all manufactures of every
description made wholly or in part of
wool, worsted or hair of the camel, goat,
ETC.. valued not more than 80 cents per
pound, the duty is 40 per cent. On blan-
kets, hats of wool. flannels for underwear,
composed wholly or in part of wool or hair
of the camel. ETC.. valued at not more than
80 cents per pound. the duty is 25 per cent;
when valued at so cents and not
ihotO tboh Nv Scuto pCl pOuuu tile
duty is 80 per cent. On blankets
and hats of wool valued al not more
than so cents per pound the duty is So per
cent.
NEW YORK. Nov. 25-The Advertiser
has sensational article intimating that
ex-Secretary Whitney is responsible for
the placing of coal on the free list in the
new tariff bill. 1t says that be. Henry
Whitney of Boston and other American
capitalists are largely interested in Nova
Scotian coalfelds and have a company
called the Dominion Coal Company. Free
coal means that the Dominion Coal Com
pany will enjoy practical monopoly of
the New England market for bitumino us
coal. and later supply all Canada and
drive out the American coal mined in
Ohio and Pennsylvania that now goes TO
Canada and the west by way of the lakes.
1t is also indirectly charged that Whitney
had inside information that coal would
surely be placed on the free list, and By
his advice some of his political friends
were let In on the ground floor In the Nova