New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-23
Cashmere
Bouquet
TOILET SOAP and PERFUrlE.

both to increase the revenue for the time being and
ultimately develop the linen manufacture mere ere
sns,led that The time has come for gradual devel-
opmen, of both AJAX culture and lax manuac,ure
dniies Specimens Of goods made from Minnesota
| of a new development in this direction.
DUTIES INCREASED ON LUXURIEs
For the mos. part otherwise the increase OF duties
in the pending bill to the figures OF the tariff OF 1890
have been in the schedules or paragraphs covering
luxuries like tobacco liquors, silks, laces. etc.
which being articles Of voluntary consumption. are
always regarded objects which will bear the high
duties The exceptions are the carthenwan -,
glass schedule the asrlcultura scn.dne' on Nv whcn ,
OF 1890, because no other rates seemed 10 De pro-
the iron steel schedule, except as to some ad-
vancod products, has not been changed from nc
Of the two Of the present; law which dneren-
tiated from most Of the others. and made In the
s Hur iron and most oiher forms Of common
iron and steel remain in the pending BIZ as liked IN
SO successfully established under the tariff of 1891
by the duty of two and one-hfh cents has been m
creased from the one and o1e-lfin cerls Guy o.
the present law to one and one-haf cents which 1t
of 1890. now that the industry has been so success
The same is true of the cotton schedule. which has
been left it was placed in the act Of 1884 for the
most part. with some needed advances on hne
]
In an the other schedules the rates propoaed In the
pending bill between the rates of the tariff OF
There have been transferred from the free list Of
the tariff OF 1894 to the duiiabe list OF the proposed
| bill only wool lumbe~. salt. burlaps, bags, cot
ton bagging and cotton ties. which Should never
have been made p also and
straw ornaments, etc. which under existing cond-
m fnHni sdditona reyenue
So far as possible the aim has been TO avoid ex-
cusively ad valorem duties on articles which have
been VIGOROUSLY undervalucd. and thus failed 10
pay the duties intended loss OF revenue wnicn
has been more serious than ever under the presen,
| tariff In which. outside of the metal and cotton
schedules, almost exclusively ad valorem rates pre-
with manufacturers and administrators OF The law
in asking for this Piece goods in the six schedule
given exclusively specific rates,a desideratum
whss Mas ane 1S Fa2nhS Hosn
In many cases where exclusively SPECIFIC duties are
goods, compound duties have been devised which so
minimize the ad valorem feature as to take away
| large part of the inducement TO undervaIue
RATES SHOWN TO BE MODERATE
While it Is difficult 10 compare the rates of tar
| III almost entirely ad valorcm with a bill whose
rates are so largely specific as the pending meas
IRE We, the facts that very few duties in this bill
are higher than those of the act Of 1890 and near
~ all outside of the few schedules referred to are
lower and that importan; schedules are for the
most part the same the duaes of the present law
clearly show that the actual average rates of the
proposed bill are lower than these of the tariff of
issS and some higher than of the present tariff not
whstandng the average per centum ad valorem
duty under the pending BIZ on the present reduced
price will appear to be higher than the present law
and a little higher than that of the act of 1890
Percentum averages are alW iys MISLEADING when
estima ed on changed bases. Thus duty OF 30 per
cent imposed on an imported article valued al at %
cents abroad and 80 cents here making 80 cents the
difference of cost of production. becomes duty oi
60 per cent when the foreign ana domestic cost
are each reduced 10 cents but the dut! Is sun ="
cents
Again, different specific or compound duties i'm
posed by lines OF value alw1ys give rich oppor-
| tunity for Juggling with the percentages For eX-
Snned between 81 and AZ 3 ana Is cents on the
kind OF article valued above 81 and so on Tor
lator. shutting his eyes the fact that the i'm
porter will adapt his goods so as 70 fan but slight
il below the lnes erected. proceeds TO declare that
| duty OF over 70 per cent has been placed on an ar
tice valued at 81 %. when. as matter of fact the
II is because Of these facts that It has been found
difficult to compare rates under two tariffs of so
make the comparison aceepab bic or satisfactory:
The average ad yalorem Of duabe sehetu Les, under
sss per cent and with the lower prices Of lss9 il
with sugar on the free list and LIQUORS per cen,
less than in the proposed bili If such sugar and
of 1890 and prices had been low In 1893 as in 1896
the average duty under that &C! would IS, have ex
age duty in 1896 40 per cent, bu, this was with
sugar at only % per cent and ohaGco iq1Pr acos
1890 or the proposed bin Un9 a the aver
liquors silks and laces had borne the same duty as
| in the proposed bill. would have reached at least a
|
with the high duties on sugars and luxIres Is esti-
by the s al oSd pS e per cen dede
sugar, tobacco and spirits and the average duty
would be % s. per cent ana asapS sugar b
The report Of the Committee Ways and Means
only restored the provisions Of the aIn Of ls9o as
fully enlarged but has extended recpro ,ity' Az the
gentleman from Illinois Mr HoPS Sg sn Ts} has
hereafter explain in detail what Is proposed will
leave that interesting subject TO him
THE ESTIMATES OF REVENUE
The inquiry naturally arises TO what will be the
probable annual revenue derived from the proposed
tariff revision in case it should become law. The
only solid basis from which can draw differences
is that supplied by the estimate of Mr. Evans. the
statlstcian. who has made the comparative State
ment that the basis Of important Of the fiscal
year 1896 the pending bill enacted into law would
yield an increase of revenue of about l3eo0o0, the
details OF W1cn are given IN the report Of me Com
mates, after making liberal reductions that for the
pg vel so%a fsaG g.
and that for every week thereafter in rs pas
dedustion Of from 100000 10 s2@ooS for wool
sugar and other articles imported on speculation TO
avoid the increased duties. For the second year Il
is believed the proposed bill would yield sooO0ooOo
It must be obvious from any point Of view that
prompt action by The two houses OF Congress is in
ing bill is intended to yield. The cxigency is
, one The PEOPLE, w atIion regard TO party
final decision. With this great question Of AIDE
Quaic revenue TO carry on the Government settled
favorably by such adjustment OF duties will
restore to our own people what has been sur
rendered TO others during the last four years with
restored confidence in the future there is reason
believe that gradually and surely here will come
| back to ms the great prosperity which We enjoyed
in the decade prior TO 1880 and which the greatest
Of living English statisticiars strkingly eulo-
gZed when he said in 1892 thar III would be impos
sible 10 find In history parallel 10 the progress
of the United States in the Uhen) last ten years"
THE SPEECH HEARD WITH INTEREST
Standing midway in the first passage Of the Re
t,h linntn cil ~ tho nlnt lor