Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1897-03-22
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.

willsmeet all requirements of the gov
ernment for revenue, and furnish
encouragement to industries which
will soon start the wheels of business
! to going and afford employment to
| the thousands of idle workmen in the
| country. According to Chairman
Dingley this bill will, during the first
! year, make an increase of revenue of
from $40, 100000 to $75, 900, 900, after
| allowances have been made shrink
age of certain imports; the sec
ond year it. will increase the revenue
! $100, 900. Wool, lumber, crude
| opium, paintings and many other
things which have been on the free
liet, or nearly free, under the Wilson
bill have now been put on to the duti-
able list. We have been sending a
large amount of money out of the
country each year for sugar and as
this should not be SO, and also from
the necessity of raising as much rev.
enue as possible, the duty on that
article has been raised. The duties
tobacco, liquors, laces, silk, etc. Cam
ada has been competing with us in
the agricultural line to our detri-
ment, and this bill is calculated to
even the thing up.
Chairman Dingley claims that the
larger part of the increase in the rev.
enue will come from the following
articles:
Sugar, $40, ,OOO, 900
Wool and wooden, $4,000, 900
Flax and jute manufactures, 100000
Tobacco, 100000
China and glassware, 100000
Spirits, 1000, 900
Cotton hosiay and other
cotton goods, af 100000
The rate of duties as fixed by the
new bill are between those given by
the bill of 1890 and 1894, although
as far aspossible they have followed
along the line of the bill of 100, the
changes from this being made neces-
sary because of the change in the
conditions of the country. The iron
and steel schedule of 1894 has not
been changed very much. The bill is
not intended to furnish revenue for
government, but to meet the expenses
of the government, when run in a
judicious manner. Should the bill
be passed by congress and receive
the signature of the president in
time to go into effect at an early
date, it will, if it meets the expecta-
tions of Mr.. Dingley, return to
us the good times which we enjoyed
under the Harrison administration.
1t Is though by some people
that the duties are not right to bene-
fit their particular territory, but it
would not be possible to frame tar
iff bill which would suit every part
of this great country, and the best
that can be done is to fix things in
such a manner as will be best for the
country at large, even if it does work
badly in few places.
The new bill makes most of the du-
ties specific instead of ad valorem,
as under the Wilson bill. BY the
terms of the new bill reciprocity will
be encouraged as much as possible.
The president is empowered TO make
trea ties with foreign countries, in
whi ch hecan lower the duties on GER
tain kinds of goods for some conces
sion on their part to manufacturers of
this country. Means are also furnish
ed by which he can retaliate against
any gov ernment, if they attempt to
discriminate against us unjusuly.
The Wilson bill, which placed the
pine lumber on the free list, has been
a great thing for the Canadians, but
it is thought that it has not been
great blessing to the Americans, con-
sequently there has been a. duty-of 50
per thousand placed on pine lumber;
most of the lumber duties being
about the same as those under the
Mckinley bill. The duty on wool and
wOOlens is about the same as under
the law of 1890. Under the McKin
ley bill raw sugar was admitted free,
while the new bill provides for tax
of one cent a pound; this, it is
claimed, is put on because of the ne
cessity of raising more money,
had it not been for this the commit
tee would have left it just as it was
under the Mckinley bill.
The bill is intended to, and doubt
less will, afford protection to the
Am erican fishermen. The bill as
made out easily shows that it's franz