Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-05-15
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He Says the Senate Amendments to tho
Tarin Bill are Calculated to Lessen In
stead of Increasing Revenue.

He Says the Senate Amendments to tho
Tariff Bill are Calculated to Lessen In
stead of Increasing Revenue.
WASHINGTON, May H. - The first
statement which Chairman Dingley,
of the ways and means committee,
whose name is borne by the tariff bill,
has consented to make regarding the
bill since it was amended by the senate
finance committee was made by him
Tuesday. He said:
While the amendments to the house bill
recommended by the senate finance COM
mittee (about 7oO) appear to be multtudinous,
yet about 200 of them are mainly verbal-such
as amending the spelling of "asbestus" by sub
stitutlng for u-leaving about 800 which
change rates. This is about the number of
amendments to the Mckinley bill adopted by
the senate of 1890, and of these remaining 50J
large proportion involve nothing OF conse-
quence. There are, however, many amend
ments which are important not only on reve-
nue. but other grounds.
The effect of these amendments as whole
outside OF the amendment imposing duty on
tea for two years and a half and the amend
ment increasing 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 exam
pie, the amendments returning to the free nst
argols, certain acids and oils, paintings ana
| statuary for private use, and reducing the du-
ties 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 increasing the
| duty on corpet wool would also diminish the
| revenue. The amendment increasing the duty
| on opium from 50 to sS per pound would not In
| crease the revenue in the Judgment OF the ad-
ministrators of the law, who informed the
| nd roftnft ttnn
| point which would yield the largest revenue.
The proposed duty on hides and few other
| amendments would increase the revenue some
| what
The estimate of an increased revenue from
| sugar, through an abrogation OF the treaty
with Hawaii, has nothing to do with tariff leg
lslation, for this could be done as we'll by ac-
| cepting the house sugar schedule as the sugar
| schedule proposed. The fact that the senate
finance committee recommended an ad valorem
duty on sugar apparently little higher thar
the specific duty of the house bill does not in
| sure larger revenue, as past experience witt
ad valorem duties has shown.
The proposed temporary duty on tea would
| increase the revenue, although not so much
the first year estimated, because OF the
| large stocks on hand and the short stocks tha
would be maintained with the knowledge tha
ten would go back to the free list; anC
the proposed increase OF internal revenu,
| taxes would also increase the revenue to the
| extent estimated.
II the ways and means committee had sup
posed that the bill would be delayed as long u.
now seems probable, it would have said sucl
delay would inevitably result in largely NULL
flying the revenue qualities OF the bill the frs
year through importations of wool, sugar anC
other articles before the new duties should q
into force, unless such retroactive provision
as was placed in tho bill by the house could b,
maintained. The anticipatory importation o
such articles already arrived and on the wa.
exceed the fears II the ways and means com
mittes when it urged prompt action by th
house to prevent such u loss of revenue for th
| first year