Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-05-12
THE DINGLEY BILL.
The Proposed Amendments Sure to
Produce Less Revenue
TuASTHE MEASURE by THE HOUSE
That Is the Opinion OF the Chairman
OF the Ways and Mems
Committee.

WARRINGTON, May 1.-THE hfst
statement which Chairman Dingley
of the ways and means committee has
consented to make regarding his bill
sinoe 1t was amended by the Eenate
finance committee was made by him
,bday to the Associated Press. Mr..
pingIey was requested to give some
statement ss to the probable additional
revenue that would be yielded the
first year by the Senate tar Il bill, as
well as by the House bill, and he
spoke as followt:
ut must be borne In mind that
there 10 no such bill as yet. What Is
Improperly spoken OF ne the Ssnate
bill ia tbs House bill reported TO the
Senate by the finance committee,
with certain amendments recon-.
mendod. What tho Senate bill will
be when that body shall have made
1t, no one can as yet say.
"While the amendments Of the
House bill recommended by the Sen
ate finance committee (aboui 700) np-
pear to BIZ multitudinous, yet about 200
OF them arc mainly verbal. There are,
arc important not only on revenue,
bat other grounds.
"The effect OF these amendments as
n whole, outside OF the amendment
imposing duty on tea for two years
and half and the amendment In
creseing the internal revenue ON beer
iorty.four cents per barrel for the
came period, AMI the Increase pre-
posed on tobacco and cigarettes, Will
produce Iess revenue than would be-
raised by the house bill. For example,
the amendments returning to the Tree
list nrgoie, csrtain acids ana oils,
paintings and statuary for private use,
and reducing the duties on liquors,
tobacco, precious stones, ETC., Lose moro
revenue than could be obtained by the
duty on tea. The amendments re-
duclpg the duty on clothing wool and
increasing the duty on carpet wool
would also reduce the revenues.
"The fact that the Senate finance
committee recommended an ad
vaiorem duty on sugar apparently a
little higher than tho specific duty OF
the House bill does not insure larger
revenue, as tpast experience with ad
va!otem dulles has shown. In our
Judgment the revenue from sugar
ting aside the question OF abrogating
the Hawaiisn tresty) would be- larger
than under the Senate amendments.
The proposed temporary duty on tea
would increase the revenue, although
not so much the frst year as estima,-
ed, because Of the large stocks on
hand. But the other proposed amend.
ments would as whole diminish
rather than increase the revenue.
~Soms criticism has been made LOT
the estimates OF the ways and means
committee as to the revenue that would
bs produced by the ttariff bin as u
passed the House. These criticisms
overlook the fact that the ways and
meaps committee estimates OF the
revenue that might be expected tho
fret year were based on the assump-
tion that the bill should become law
on or before May 1st. Here is what
the committee said ON this point:
sWhat the actual revenue would prove
to be in the year following the enact.
mept of the proposed measure into law
10, OF couios, dependent upon oontin.
gencies which cannot be forecast with
any approach to certainty, and will
therefore be subject to varying esti-
mates. Undoubtedly the contingency
which would exert tho largest IN Fl !.
ence in diminishing the estimated
revenue would be delay in the passage
OF the proposed bill, in consequence OF
which there would be large importa.
tions OF such articles as wool, wooden
goods, sugar, etc., on which IL 10 pre-
posed to increase the duty
"If the ways anu means committee
had supposed when they made their
statement on Maron 18Th that the bill
would be delayed as long as now seems
probable they would have said that
suon delay would inevitably result In
largely nulliiying the revenue quail
ties OF tbs bill the tirst year, through
importRtons Of wool, sugar and other
/ articles before the new duties could go