Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-08-23
SLACK PUNCTUATION
Will Not Cause Very Much
Trouble.
WORK IS NJ ARLY FINISHED.
Custom Receipts AbnormalIy La &c to
Embarrassment Of Treasury

wAsHINGToS, Aug. 23.-The legislative
and engrossing clerks Of the senate have
been comparing the statement of errors In
the new tariff bill made In various papers
yesterday with copies Of the bill, and say
that there are only two or three errors
that need give importers or the officers Of
the treasury any concern.
These are tho paragraphs relating TO the
free admission of alcohol for use In the
arts, the diamond schedule and perhaps
the omission Of a period In the paragraph
relating 20 stamping foreign manufac-
lures. Even in the case OF diamonds, they
believe the construction placed will be
that intended by congress- and that they
will pay the duty imposed on precious
stones.
As to the other errors enumerated, II Is
claimed by these clerks that by no system
OF construction can the alleged mistakes
In punctuation be made To either impose
higher duties or allow the free admission
OF articles named.
Preparations for carrying into effect the
new tariff bill are going forward at the
treasury department with all possible
speed. Secretary Carlisle has already pre-
pared blank form OF license for custom
house brokers provided for in the bill, and
IL is now In the hands Of the printer.
Several clerks are also hard at work pre-
pairing an index for the new bill. This
will occupy about 20 pages in the new
tariff volume, which, for the convenience
of custom officials, will contain both the
new law and rhe Mckinley act Of 1890, IL
is expected that by the time the new bill
becomes law, all preliminary work, save
that of issuing instructions to customs
and internal revenue officials, will have
been done.
Receipts From Internal Revenue Service
continue to be abnormally large, with
every prospect Of continuing so until the
new tariff bill goes into effect.
During these last working days, from
Aug. IS, the receipts have reached the
unprecedented sum Of ell 600, l22, and IL Is
confidently expected that by next Satur-
day at midnight, when the now act will
become operative, the aggregate receipts
for the preceding 10 days will have reached
t16, 100000
These large receipts under the circum-
stances arc deprecated by the treasury
officials, who liken the situation TO that of
the poor man paying 10 psr cent per month
for money upon which to live. The reason
for this Is that the aid coming 20 the treas
ury in this way is only temporary at best,
and will really add to the embarrassment
later on, for on every gallon Of whisky
now being withdrawn, the government
sooner or later is bound to lose 20 cents.
As soon as the tariff bill goes into opera
ton the receipts from this source are ex-
pected TO drop down to a merely nominal
amount, and so continue some months
until the great supply now being laid in is
exhausted. These abnormally large re-
ceipts have swelled the cash balance In the
treasury to nearly sl21, ,OOO, 600. At the same
time the gold reserve is slowly increasing,
until il has now reached $4,000, 600 This
increase is due almost entirely to the west
ern demand for small notes with which to
harvest the crops.