Evening star., 1897-03-16
THE NEW TARIFF BILL
Chairman Dingley's Explanation of the
Measure introduced Yesterday.
It's Objects Are to Incrense Revenue
and to Encourage the Industries
of the United States.

means committee introduced the new tdriT
fill in the House yesterday after the or
ganization of the House and the drawing
os seats.
In general the rates of duty in the bill are
rot quite as high as In the Mckinley BILL
but higher than those of the Wilson bill
The reciprocity feature of the bill author
lies the President to make treaties with
foreign countries by which he will lower
the duties on certain goods in return for
reciprocal or equivalent concessions to
products manufactures of :he United
States 1t further provides hat with a
view to secure reciprocal trade with for
eign governments the President. when he is
SATISFIED that any government of a country,
colony of such government. exporting to
the United States coffee. tea. or hides. i'm
poses duties or other cxlctions upon the
agricultur II. manufactured. or other prod
ucts of the United States. which. IN view
of the free introduction Of such coffee. tea
and hides into the United States he may
deem. 70 be reciprocally unequal and I'M
reasonable. he shall have the power. and it
shall be his duty. to suspend, By proclama-
ton to that effect. the provisions of this
act relating TO the free Introduction of such
coffee. tea and hides, uncured
whether dry. salted or picked: a3gora
goatskins. raw. without the wool. unmanu-
factured: asses skins. or urmanlIfac-
tured, and skins. except sheepskus with
the wool on of the products of such
try or colony for such time as he shall
deem just
During such suspensions the duties shall
be: Coffee. cents per pound: tea. 10 cents:
hides. raw or uncured, whe ther dry. salted
or picked; angora goatskins. raw, without
the wool. manufactured. asses skins.
raw manufactured. and skins. except
sheepskins, with the wool on, u cents per
pound
Articles Affected by Reciprocity
Treaties.
The articles on which duties will be low
cred by reciprocity treaties. and the rates
at which they will be entered under such
treaties. follow:
Argols. crude tartar. winelees. crude
! cent per pound; chickle. cents per
pound: brandies s. per proof gallon: cham
payne and other sparkling wines. IN bottles
of not over quart. s.; per dozen: not more
than one pint, 81 per dozen: one-half pint
or less. $50 per dozen. with an extra
charge for bottles containing over one quart
each.
Still wines, including ginger wine or gin
ger cordial and vermouth. in casks. 80
cents per gallon; in bottles or jugs, per
case OF one dozen. containing not more
than one quart and more than one pint. or
twenty-four bottles jugs of not more
than one pint, $1.7, per case: and any eX-
cess beyond these quantities in such bot
ties and jugs. scents per pint or fractional
part thereof but no separate or additional
duty shall be assessed upon the bottles or
jugs
Laces of silk. or of which silk is the COM
ponenI material of chief value. ~ per cent
ad valorem: mineral waters and limitations
of natural mineral waters. and artificial
mineral waters in green colored glass
bottles of not more than pint. ~ cents
per dozen. more than pint. and not
more than a quart, 2S cents per dozen: not
in bottles, or in bottles OF more than one
quart. ~ cents per gallon. Paintings, draw
irgs and statuary. ~ per cent ad valorem-
Sugar. molasses, etc, 80 per cent of the
regular duty
Nr. DinGley's Explanation.
Mr.. Dingley's explanation of the bill is as
follows:
THE bill has two purposes. namely, to
raise additional revenue and to encourage
the Industries of the United States.
On the basis of the import a tions for
the last fiscal year. the bill would Increase
the revenue about sl1200OO0O, divided
among the several schedules roughly, as
follows:
"A-Chemicals s'J1@0: B-C-ockery
and glassware s4.nSGN0: C-MetaIs 1000
GT: r-Wocds 81. 80 Ops; E-Sugar ST. 100
bD; F-1obacco. S1.tsD.p,1: G-Agricultural
Si.3"o1o; H-Liquors. si,s4oU1; 1-Cottons
Sl.IoO"D: J-Jute. linen and hemp, 81 800
coo: K-Wool. s17.5not1: DO. manufactures
of wool. s2I.sDo.oOo: L-Silks 81. $4,000 NJ
Pulp erd paper. s5s.ooo: N-Sundries, So
This estimate is on the supposi,ion that
the imports of each class of goods would
be the same the next fiscal year as In the
fiscal year ended last June. But as the
imports OF wool were three times as erea:
and those of woclen goods more than twice
as great in pounds as i'll 1888. the commit
tee assume that this excessive irnnortation
would be largely reduced by the proposed
III. although The fact that our domestic
production Of wool has diminished s. StpD .rsJ
pounds since 1888 Will necessitate the i'm
portalion of much more wool now than in
the latter year. Assuming that .he i'm
portali0ns of wool will fall off at least
one-third from those of 1896 Oh account
OF anticlpaiory imports to avoid duties we
place the increased revenue fr1m tbic
source at 11.GjoGOp Auticipatine also fbat
the imports of wooiens Will fall OF nearly
~ per cent from the enormous imports of
~" We estimate the increased revenue
from TINS source under the proposed rates
al about S1i.rD.rp. From sugar We esti-
mate SHp,SD.Ui0 additional revenue Antici-
paun2 considerable falling off Of imports
OF Havana tobacco because of the revolr,-
uon IN Cuba. We reduce the estimates of
additionai revenue to be derived from the
tobacco schedule to sipODnN
The remaining schedules would a afror5 n
revenue Of about thirty-nine and h.:f
millions on the basis of the imports OF 1s.m
but as there would probably be diminished
NM IMPORTS l az some points. although the grad
uai restoration Of business activity would
cnset this by increasing the consumptio,
OF imported luxuries, p.e reduce the csri
mates of these 10 ST. $4,000 These vvoI,1d
asetegase an additional revenue of ssp.s .syl-
rD the first year
turiner reduction Of FIVE or ten mil
tIcIio lOI contingencies would leave $50 (4s,
Do % sf5,vO,VD as the probable Increased
revenue from this bill the first year, which
second year '''e
hese estimate are below. rather than
ABOVE the probable result unless a con-
siderable delay in the enactment of the
Dill should greatly enlarge the opportunity
Tor imports of articles which duties are
TO be raised-particularly wool and wool
ens-for speculative purposes. I-nGoubtea
~. any Gelay beyond the 1s' of May il,
placing the b.H on the statut, hook would
result In a large loss of revenue
Taken Prom the Free List.
This ircresse of revenue is secured by
transferring wool, lumber. crude opium
argols. pIintings and statuary straw or
naments. straw mattings. buriaps and yari
BUS other articles from the free list of the
present law to the dutiable list: but in
creasing the duty on woolens to compen-
safe the manufacturer for the duty placed
On wool; by raising the duty on sugar about
three-fourths OF a cent per pound in order
10 encourage the production of sugar in
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