The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-08-25
Good TnIns-un The Bill.

lille the Senate Iarin bill does
not meet the full requirements of
tariff reform, for reasons with which
our readers are familiar, it cuts
down by considerable percentage,
as rule, the tariff taxes of the Nc
Kinley act, where those taxes are
not wholly removed, and enlarges
the free list by the addition of sew
eral very important products. Even
in the case of refined sugar, says
the New York Times, the Trusts
protective duty is reduced, accord
ing to the accepted Republican au-
thority, from the Mckinley tariffs
go cents per hundred pounds to 42t
cents.
/ With respect to two other products
concerning which there was conten-
ton, it should be noted that the Nc
Kinley duty on iron ore and bitumi-
nous coal is reduced nearly one half,
or from rs to 40 cents per ton.
OF the additions to the free list
the first in importance is free wool.
The Senate as well as the House put
wool on the free list. A tariff act
making wool of all kinds free of duty
would be memorable and very ben
eficial act, even if it provided for no
other changes in existing tariff
schedules beyond corresponding
reduction of the duties on wooden
goods. The value of the wool i'm
ported in 1898 was $1S, 500,0 900, and
the duties paid were $S,2U0,000.
With free wool we have free lum-
Der. The Senate bill removes the
duties on logs, hewn and sawed tim
Der, squared timber, sawed boards
and plank, clap boards, hubs, laths,
shingles, and staves-in short, sub
stantially everything in the McKin-
ley wood schedule except furniture,
the duty upon which is reduced TO
25 per cent The value of the i'm
ports of these articles, now placed
on the free list, was $l0,000,000 in
1898, and $l,143,000 was paid in
{ duties.
Salt goes on the free list In 1898
there were imported $4,000, 600
: pounds, and the duties were $780,
600. Binding Irvine is free of duty,
also hagging for cotton, burlaps, and
grain bags made of burlaps. With
these are Chinese mating for floors
and the iron band COTTON ties used
in baling cotton. The value of the
burlaps imported in 1898 was near
ly 100000, and the duties amount
ed to 100000. Upon imported
grain bags valued at 100000 the
tariff tax was $536,000.
Flows, tooth and disk harrows,
harvesters, reapers, agricultural
drills, mowers, horserakes, cultiva-
tors, thrashing machines, and cotton
gins are made free of duty. The
manufacture of some of these i'm
plements is controlled by Trust com
binations. The Senate bill removes
any duty that could assist them in
exacting high ring prices at home
while selling implements at lower
prices abroad. The absurd duty
imposed on tin, the metal, by the
Mckinley act, is repealed, and thus
the cost of raw material largely
consumed in many important indus
tries is considerably reduced. The
enlarged free list exhibits notable
reduction of the burden of tariff tax
es.
In many of the dutiable schedules
a considerable part of the Mckinley
tax has been shorn off. The remov-
al of the duty on wool is accompan-
led by very large reduction of the
duties on wooden goods. The value
of the women's and children's dress
goods, coat Innings, and similar ia
brics imported in 1898 was nearly
100000, and the duties were
more than $1S,250,000. The aver
age ad valorem rate under the Nc
Kinley tariff was 1921 per cent. The
Senate bill reduces this to 40 and
so per cent The duty on imports
of wooden and worsted cloth valued
at nearly $43,O0O,OOO was 100 per
cent; the Senate bills rates 40 and
so per cent. The duty on wooden
knit fabrics Imports $l,456,000) is
cut down from "a per cent to 35 and
40 per cent.