The silver state., 1897-07-15
IHE TARIFF AND NEVADA.
Items OF the Dingley Bill Which Interest
This State.
Ispeelal correspondenee.l ]


publicans refrained, for various
reasons, from voting, the chief reason
being that their votes were not
needed to pass the bill. These sena-
tors claimed that the tariff will not
restore prosperity, and hold that the
free coinage Of silver is the only
remedy for the present stagnation in
business. They we're willing, how
ever, that the tariff bill should pass
in order TO give the country another
object lesson, and to show the Ameri-
can people that high tariff, such as
the present bill is, will have no more
effect in restoring confidence and
trade than did the Wilson bill
in 1894.
Tariff bills have usually been framed
to protect the manufacturers of the
finished product and not to give any
protection whatever 10 American
labor. The Northeastern manu-
facturers have contended from the
beginning that they had a right to
buy in free trade market and sell in
a protected market; that everything
produced by American labor in the
field and in the mine was raw ma
terial and ought to be put in eompe-
tition with the coolie labor of Asia.
The senate amendments TO the tariff
bill are a partial exception to the
rule that American labor in the field
and in the mine has no rights which
the manufacturers are bound to
respect.
The Western senators took a con-
spicuous part in the framing and
passage of the tariff bill and were
able to secure protection Tor the
products of Nevada, and also to re-
duee the tariff on cyanide OF potas-
stun and other chemicals which are
largely used IN treating low grade gold
ores, which reduction will now enable
many mines, formerly Improbable
to work, to be developed and operated
with profit. Attention is called to
the following items OF senate amend
ments which were attached to the
tariff bill. They mete ont partial
Justice to the West, and are of es-
pecial interest to the citizens of
Nevada.
Borax, five cents per pound.
Soda ash, three eights of one cent
per pound.
Arseniate of soda, one and one
fourth cents per pound.
Bicarbonate ofsoia, or supercarbon-
ate of soda, or saleratus, and other
alkalies containing City per centum
or more cf biclrbonate of soda, three
fourths of one cent per pound.
Cyanide OF potassium, twelve and
one half cents per pound ad valorem,
which is a reduction of one half from
the tariff on this necessity for gold
mining.
Sulphur, or birthstone, crude, fifty
cents per ton; refined, or sublimed,
or flowers of, eight dollars per ton.
Lead bearing ore of all kinds, one
and one half cents per pound on the
lead contained therein.
Nickel ore, three cents per pound
on the nickel contained therein.
Nickel matte, four cents per pound
on the nickel contained therein.
Nickel, nickel oxide, alloy OF any
kind in which nickel is the component
material of chief value, eight cents
per pound.
Hides, OF cattle, raw or uneured,
whether dry, salted or picked twenty
per cent ad valorem.
Apples, peaches, currants, ounces,
cherries, plums and pears, green or
ripe, twenty five cents per bushel.
The duty on wool OF the first class
is ten cents per pound and on wool of
the second class eleven cents per
pound. The duty ON wool OF the
third class, lowest grade, is four
cents per pound, and of the second
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