Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1897-05-12
BILLS COMPARED
Dingley Talks Of the Senate's
Changes in the Tariff.
INCREASE OF REVENUE DISPUTED.

Says the Articles Put In the Free List and
Reductions Elsewhere VIII About Bal
ance the Increases on Other Productions
Delay in the Passage of the Measure a
Potent Factor In the Revenue for the
First Year 1t Is in Force.
Washington, May 1.-THE frst state.
ment which Chairman Dingley, Of the
ways and means committee, whose
name Is borne by she new tariff bill,
has consented to make regarding the
bill since it was amended by the senate
finance committee was made by him
yesterday to the Associated Press.
Dingley was requested to give some
statement as to the probable additional
revenue that would be yielded the first
year by the senate tariff hill, as well as
by the house bill. and he spoke as fol-
lows Of the effect Of the senate amend
ments, of which he said first that there
were not more than 500 which changed
rates:
Loses More Revenue Than 1t Gains.
"The effect of these amendments as q
whole-outside of the amendment i'm
posing a duty on tea for two years and
a half, and the amendment increasing
the internal revenue tax on beer A cents
per barrel for the same period. and the
increase proposed on tobacco and cigar.
ettes-is to produce less revenue than
would be yielded by the house bill. For
example, the amendments returning to
the free list argols, certain acids and
| oils, paintings and statuary for private
use, and reducing the duties On liquors.
| tobacco, precious stones, ETC., lose more
| revenue than could be obtained by the
| duty on tea. The amendments reducing
| the duty on clothing wool and increaS-
| ing the duty on carpet wool would also
| diminish the revenue. The amendment
| increasing the duty on opium from Sc to
s. per pound would not increase the rev.
enue. If the judgment OF the admins
traitors of the law is good-who Informed
the ways and means committee that Sc
was the point which would yield the
largest revenue. The proposed duty on
hides and a few other amendments
would increase the revenue somewhat.
Sugar Has Nothing to Do with the Case.
'Of course the estimate Of an in
| creased revenue from sugar, through an
| abrogation of the treaty with Hawaii,
| has nothing to do with the tariff legis-
| latlOn, 1Or tnlS cOulQ De Done US wei
by accepting the house sugar schedule
as the sugar schedule proposed. The
| ways and means committee did not ever
consider the question of abrogating this
treaty, because they took it for granted
that If it was considered desirable to
| abrogate this or any other treaty II
would be done in the straightforward
manner provided by the treaty itself
The fact that the senate finance commit.
tee recommend an ad valorem duty or
sugar apparently a little higher thar
the specific duty Of the house bill doe:
not insure a larger revenue. as past
experience with ad valorem duties ha:
shown. In our judgment the revenue
from sugar under the house sugar sched.
ule (setting aside the questions Of alb.
| rogating the Hawaiian treaty. would bt
larger than under the senate amend
| ment5.
Effect of the Duty on Tea.
1.-THE proposed temporary duty on tes
would increase the revenue, although
not so much the first year as estimated
because of the large stocks on hand
and the short stocks that would bt
maintained with the knowledge that tee
would soon go back to the free list; an6
the proposed increase Of internal rev.
enue taxes would also increase the rev.
enue to the extent estimated. But tht
other proposed amendments would as g
whole diminish rather than increase thu
revenue.