The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-15
FIXING UP SCHEDULES.
Senate Committee still Bothered by
Manufactures

WASHINGTON, June 10, 1S94.-The Senate
committee has not reached the end Of its
trouble in the matter of fixing up schedules
so as to make them acceptable to everybody.
1t was generally supposed that hearings had
been stopped weeks ago, but there has
not been week since the bill came
to the Senate that the individual mem
berS of the committee have not been be-
sieged by delegation of some kind asking
something. Having got the wool schedule
so far as it relates to cloths and yarns in
such share as to make it satisfactory all
round. the committee now finds itself con-
fronted with the demands of the carpet
manufacturers who claim that the rates are
not high enough and that, in view of certain
changes that have been made III the rates on
carpet material, the duty on carpets ought
also to be increased SO as to equalize the bill,
in the matter of manufacture OF wooden
goods.
AS the carpet schedule now stands, the
committee permitted the 35 per cent, found
in the House bill to remain ON paragraphs
2S7 and 2SS, covering Aubusson, Administer,
Moquette and Chenille carpets and Oriental.
Berlin and other similar rugs: also the same
rate on Saxony, w Wilton and Tournay velvet
carpets. They increased from 30 per cent.
as fixed in the House to 35 per cent, the
duty on Brussels, velvet and tapestry velvet
kinds of carpets the manufacturers are now
demanding duty of 30 per cent.
The Senate Committee also increased the
rate on treble ingram 3-ply carpets from 80
to 35 per cent; wool Dutch and 2-pIy in
grains from 25 to 80 per cent; druggets and
bookings, from 25 to 80 per cent. The man
ufacturers demand on this class of goods 40
per cent. The aduGtorem rate of 30 per cent.
fixed by the Senate Committee on carpets
and carpeting of wool, ETC., not specially
provided for, the manufacturers care willing
to accept.
they represent the difference between the
actual cost of production here and the cost of
production abroad, plus the duty, without
any profit to the makers in this country.
Manufacturers are also asking for spe-
cific duty on silks and velvets of one dollar
and half per pound. and on silk plush
of one dollar per pound. which is equlva-
lent to the 50 per cent allowed by
she Senate committee. Their reason for
asking for specific in place of dd Udtoren1
duties is that these goods as they come from
the loom have to be cut by hand to make the
velvet, and in cutting, some parts OF the fab
ric have a longer pile than Others 1t so
happens that these goods although of the
same material and made on the same loom,
are divided into three different qualities, ac-
cording to the length of the pile, and differ
ing in value in these varying qualities from
% to 50 cents a yard.
The statistics of the Treasury Department
in New York show that more than 80 per
cent. of all velvets imported were classified
as second or third quality, thus indicating
that by reason OF the representation of the
goods as of inferior quality. the importers
were enabled to have them entered at an
underyaluation To avoid the possibility of
this condition Of affairs specific rates are
asked for Inasmuch as the specific rate is
not in excess of the ad valorens in the House
and Senate bill, the committee is likely to
make the change.