New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-08

Whatever the decision II he Supr"m" Court
may he. which Is auXlou>ly expected tod ~ The
Administration has succeeded in scoring another
nlrnd,r II has officially announced that 80
ezra session will bc called. ami that the revenue
,,itbnut :hc income tax viii b" iarS" enough T"
moo, The cxpcnditurcs Of the Government In
that ease. for what earthly reason dld the Dem
,.r,tir partv impose the income tax Th" state.
men, carefully made public 10 support the d'''r-
,,,no,,on announced gives much weight 10 The
IMPRESSION. which is daily growing ~ Washing
tam ,ha, the court will declare tn" tax unconSli-
ulional
Great stress Is laid upon The report "i III" hu
r.,u Of Statistics that imports Of SG%ar IN Mir'h
r,sn 10 NO9s,.91o lbs. and the inirrrh'" u
drawn that when the imports reach thclr norman
nuontitl the expected rcvcnu" from lha' sour g
will he realized. But imports OF sugar III March
,r. usually the largest IN the year; in lNt' lh'y
v.r. ohoui 10000 OoO lbs. aud in lN.G about
- ooo 600 lbs greater than In any other month
Last wear ,hny were GsS ~ ~ lbs and about
~, ooo 600 lbs greater than in any other month
cxccuf July. the month hcfor" The new tarlh
wont into effect. If The imports Tor Mar'h 'liN
wear are somewhat over half those 81 March,
1894. II does not 10y any means follow that th'E
will reach the normal quantity IN III" coming
months But, moreover, the price must be- taken
into account, because the enormous yicd ms
wear has knocked down The avorag" import price
from 81 cents in March, 1888. and - cents III
March, 1884 10 = cents this year tn" tax at 10
NOR cent ad valorcm Il year ago would have been
III cent per h. and This year is only .I2l of n
cent per H.
II NAV be well to present the Administration
with some facts which il does not seem disposed
| to compilc from It's own records In the last
| ouar,er. April-Iune inclusive. Of the fiscal year
| Iso3 ,hc imporls Of sugar were l.O7O,O0O,OOO
his. and In the same quarter Of the previous
year 1103 100000 lbs; dcducting tenth for
the Hawaiian receipts free of duty, the duties
Oh the res, nj the present rate would amount to
SCI o7o. 600 for 1893 and $7,3l2,0O0 for 1892. But
| imports are as yet much less than in the same
month Of either year II Is therefore doubtful
whether the revenue from sugar which was
81 100 600 last month. will be- more than
5000 900 In the three months. April-Junc ncl,l-
sve Again. the imports during the last half OF
the year 1893, June December inclusive. were
100 100000 lbs. and during the last half Of
1882. G,1 100000 lbs If The imports should
be as large this year al present prices aud rates.
! the revenue would he about Slo.iJo,WO for the
six months II considerably smaller, rs they
were in March, the revenue will fall below
SlOOOOO 900 for the half year And II may just
as well be noticed that the aggregate eXpcndi-
lures OF the people for all sorts Of things though
larger In March were still 25.6 per cent less
than in 1892.
The same reasoning applies to other i'm
| ports about which some useful information may
! he gircn. Drygoods imports have increased
largely for three months, because Foreigners axs