The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-03-16
THl DINGLEY TARIFF.
The Ways and Means Chairman
Discusses the Measure,
INCREASED REVENUES ell2,ooo,oOo

Tho Maine Statesman Bases His Estimate
on the suppositiou That Exports VIII
Equal Those Of the Fiscal Year Ended
Last June.
Washington March 16. - Chairman
Dngley, of the ways and means COM
mittee, in response to a request that he
furnish a synopsis of the new tariff
bill presented by him yesterday makes
the following statement
THE bin has two purposes, namely
to raise additional revenue, and to en-
courage the industries of the United
States. on the basis of the importa-
tions for the last fiscal year the bin
would increase the revenues about
$1120oooo0 divided among the several
schedules roughly as follows: Chem
icals S350J,O00: crockery and glass
ware, $4OO00O0; metals $A000,O0O; wood,
L750000; sugar $21 100000; tobacco ST.
000000; agricultural S630o0Oo liquors.
I.S0O0 coo; cottons, Sl,700.O00; iute, linen
and hemp, $1S0OOO0; wool $1I5000 600;
manufactures Of wool. S2L0o)0O0; silks
$L5oO0 000; pulp and paper $58.G00; sum
dries, 100000
that the imports Of each class of goods
would be the same the next fiscal year
as i'm the fiscal year ended last june
But as the imports of wool were three
times as great and those of wooden
goods more than twice as great in
pounds as i'm 1893 the committee Gs-
sumo that this excessive importation
would be largely reduced by the
proposed bin, although the fact
that our domestic production Of wool
has diminished 100000 pounds since
1898 win necessitate the Importation OF
much more wool now than i'm the lat
ter year Assuming that the importa-
tions Of wool win fall off at least one
third from those of 1896 on account
Of anticipatory imports to avoid duties,
We place the increased revenue from
this source at $11,OJOOO
anticipating, also, that the imports
of WoOlens viii fall off nearly so per
cent from the enormous imports of 1896,
we estimate the increased revenue from
this source under the proposed rates at
about $140J0,OOO From sugar we esu-
mate 100000 O00 additional revenue. An
ticipating a considerable falling off Of
imports of Havana tobacco, because Of
the revolution in Cuba, We reduce the
estimates Of additional revenue to be
derived from the tobacco schedule to
$t09O.c60 The remaining schedules
would afford a revenue of about thirty
nine and q half millions on the basis
Of the imports of 1896 but as there
would he dimiuslA3 imports at some
points, although the gradual restora-
tion of business activity would offset
this by increasing the consumption Of
imported luZuries, we reduce the est
mates on these to $2l, 600 GOO. These
would aggregate an additional revenue
of $4,000 OGo the first year.
"A further reduction of $1,000 600 or
$1OO0O,00O for contingencies would
leave $7OO00Oo0 to SIS 0o0O0O as the
probable increased revenue from this
bill the first year, which would un-
doubtedly rise to $100O00,0J0 the sec
ond year.
"These estimates are below rather
than above the probable result, unless
a considerable delay in the enactment
of the bin should greatly enlarge the
opportunity for imports of articles on
which duties are to be raised, particu-
larly wool and woolens, for speculative
purposes Undoubtedly any delay be-
yond the first Of May in placing The
bill on the statute books would result
in a large loss Of revenue.
This increase of revenue is secured
by transferring wool lumber, crude
opium, argots, paintings and staluury
straw ornaments, straw mattings, bur
laps and various other articles from
the free list of the present law to the
dutiablc list; by increasing the duty
on WoOlens to compensate the manu-
facturer for the duty placed on wool
by raising the duty on sugar about
three-fourths of a cent per pound III
order to encourage the production Of
sugar in this country, which it is be-
lieved can be done, and thus give our
| farmers a new crop which we now i'm
port mainly from abroad; by increas~
| ing the duty on agricultural products
affected by Canadian competition and
ON fine cotton goods, some advanced
manufactures of iron and steel, manu-
features Of jute, flax and hemp in or
der to encourage these and other in
dustries here, and especially by in
creasing duties on such luxuries as
liquors, tobacco silks and laces, etc.
AS a rule the rates of duties proposed
are between the rates of the tariff of
1890 and the tariff of 1894
THE iron and steel schedule is
changed very little from that schedule
in the tariff Of 1894, the change being
entirely in the more advanced articles
The same is true of the cotton sched-
ule. In the agricultural, wool and glass
and earthenWare schedules alone are
the duties of the act of 1890 fully re-
stored as a rule and in few cases in
creased, with the view of amply pro-
tecting and encouraging our farming