The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-05-12
DIHGLEY ON THE
TARIFF BILh !
The House Chairman Discusses the
Senate Amendments.
THEY WOULD REDUCE REVENUES.
Mr.. Dingley Points out Where, I'm His
Judgment, the Bill as Amended by
the Senate VIII be Less Bene-
fetal Than the Original
Measure.

Washington, May 1.-THE first state
ment which Chairman Dingley, Of the
ways and means committee, whose
name is borne by the 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. Mr..
Dingley was requested to give some
statement as to the probable addition
al revenue that would be yielded the
first year by the senate tariff bill, as
well as by the house bill and he spoke
as follows:
1T must be borne in mind that there
is no senate bill yet What is improp-
erly spoken Of as the senate bill is the
house bill reported to the senate by the
finance committee, with certain amend
ments recommended. What the senate
/ bill viii be when that body shall have
made it no one can as yet say.
/ while the amendments of the house
bill recommended by the senate finance
committee (about 700) appear to be
multitudinous yet about 200 of them
are mainly verbal, leaving about 500
! which change rates. This Is about the
number OF amendments to the McKin-
| ley bill adopted by the senate in $780,
and of these remaining 500 a large pro-
| portion involve nothing Of consequence
/ There are, however, many amendments
| which are important, not only on rev.
enue, but other grounds. do not pro-
pose now to speak of these proposed
amendments except as they affect rev.
enue
''The effect Of these amendments as
a whole-outside of the amendment
imposing a duty on tea for two years
and a half and the amendment in
/ creasing the internal revenue tax on
beer "A cents per barrel for the same
period, and the increase proposed on
tobacco and cigarettes 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, paint
| ipgs and statuary for private use, and
/ reducing the duties on liquors, to-
| bacco, precious stones, etc, lose more
revenue than could be obtained by the
! duty on tea.
"The amendments reducing the duty
on clothing wool and increasing the
duty on carpet wool would also dimin-
ish the revenue. The amendment in
creasing the duty on opium from Sc to
IS per pound would not increase the
revenue in the judgment of the ad-
ministrators Of the law, 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 further amendment
would increase the revenue somewhat
"Of course the estimate of an in
creased revenue from sugar, through
an abrogation of the treaty with Ha-
wall, has nothing to do with the tariff
| legislation, for this could be done as
we'll by accepting the house sugar
schedule as the sugar schedule pro-
posed. The ways and means commit
F tee did not even consider the question
of abrogating this treaty, because they
took It for granted that If it was con-
sidered desirable to abrogate this OF
any other treaty 1t would be done in
the straightforward manner proposed
by the treaty itself The fact that the
senate finance committee recommend
an ad valorem duty on sugar appar
emily a little higher than the specih,
duty of the house bill does not insur,
a larger revenue, as past experience
with ad yalorem duties has shown. II
my judgment the revenue from sugar
under the house sugar schedule (set-
ting aside the question Of abrogatlng
the Hawaiian treaty. would be larger
than under the senate amendments.
"The proposed temporary duty on te5
would increase the revenue, although
not so much the first year as estimated
because of the large stocks on hanC
and the short stocks that would b,
maintained with the knowledge tha
tea would soon go back to the FIRE,
list; and the proposed increase Of in
o ternal revenue taxes would, also, in
-
: mated. But the other proposed amend
ments would, as a whole, diminisl
rather than increase the revenue.
Some criticism has been made ol
r. the estimates of the ways and mean
u committee az to the revenue that woul
be produced by the tariff bill as
passed the house. These criticism
81 overlook the fact that the ways an
means committee estimates Of the reve
nue. that might be expected the frs
year were based on the assumpuO
W that the bill would become a law O
y or before May /. The committee 4
5s their report expressly said that Will
b, there could be no question that tn
y house bin would I'm any event yiel
s, sufficient revenue to carry on the gov
o. ernment, and leave a surplus the sec
ond year Of its operation and prob
2 ably sufficient for the first year If
could be promptly put in force, yet
there should be a delay i'm its enact
ment beyond May ! anticipatory i'm
portations would inevitably cause
serious inroad i'm the prospective revt
nue. for the first year"
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