The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-03-22
| MR.. D|NGLEY ON HIS BILL
Continued from First page.

| farm product, and our manufacturers ant
| their workmen lost market not only for
| the goods which increased foreign imports
| had supplanted, but also market fol
| goods which the farmers and masses OF
| the people were able TO purchase in 1893
but which they could not buy in 1886
because OF a loss OF employment and pur
| chasing power. .ia,s
Beyendthis it has been monstrated that
| by placing wool on the free list TO he in jury
| of the farmer and manufacturer, we have
not been thereby enabled to increase oui
exports OF manufactures of wool (as was
claimed ould he the CASE, and we have
| greatly increased The use of shoddy by
diminishing the purchasing power of the
! masses and thus compelling them to seel
| the cheapest cloths
II it be claimed that this has rc,inced the
cost of clothing to Che people, the reply
| is obvious, that it has done so only III
| appearance because In point OF fact tie
| masses deprived OF work and wages by
that has given foreign manufacturers tn.
making OF so large "a part of our goods
have found it harder to buy their clothing
than they did before
Profting by this experience, the Ways
and Means Committee in framing the pend
ing bill, have taken wool from the free
list, whereit was SO ..njustly placed by the
present tariff, and have restored it to the
dutiable list at the same rate as it lore
in the tariff of 1890; and have also re-
stored the same compensary duties on
manufactures of wool as provided by That
act in order TO place the manufacturer Of
wool on the same basis To his material
as his foreign competitor was given by
the latter act-as is always necessary in
order TO provide a market for our domestic
wool To this has been added in partly
specific form, duties practically equivalent
To the-ao valcrem duties imposed by both
the tariff of 1890 and 1894, as pro
lection to the wool manufacturers.
This, it is believed, will greatly aid the
wool grower, stop the further DETECTION OF
our flocks, aud presently regain what we
have lost in the past four years and C1ti-
mately result in the home production OF
nearly all the clothing wool that we re-
quiure. Ii will also greatly encourage the
wool manufacturing industries, which
have suffered SO severely under the tariff
of 1894 At the same time we will ulti-
mately increase the revenue from duties
on wool and woolens not less than $25,-
600 900 per annum.
The 'hEy on sugar has also been in
creased, both for purpose OF revenue and
also To encourage the production of sugar
in the United States, and thereby give to
our farmers a new and much-needed crop.
We now pay foreign countries about SS4,-
600, 900 for Imported sugar, notwithstand-
ing the abnorInally low price and this sum
will soon be increased to 500, 900, 900.
The success which has attended the grow
ing OF sugar beets and the production Of
beet sugar in California and Nebraska in
the past five years, not to mention the
progress in the production of cane sugar
in louisiana has made the problem Of pro-
ducing our own sugar no longer doubtful,
and now that We must have the increased
revenue from sugar for the present. a ia
vorable opportunity presents Itself, giving
this boon 20 our agriculture.
The duty on sugar proposed is specific.
according to polaTiscopic test of the degree
OF saccharine matter, commencing at l
cent per pound for sugar polarizing rot
more than rs degrees, and increasing the
duty threo-ono- aundredths of u cent for
each additional degree. This would make
the duty on raw sugar OF the Same polar
iscopic test as refined sugar u00 de-
greesi, one and three-fourths cents. To
this is added ope-eiehth OF one cent for
such sugar above No, 10 Dutch standard
in color frefined sugar., making the duty
one cent and eighty-Seven and n half hun
dredths; this eighth, with wha tever MAY lie
added by the countervailing duty on al
sugar imported from. xport-bounty-pay-
ing countries, as thf protection which, il
is believed, will maintain the refining
industry here, Notwithstanding the pres
ent differential one-eighth and 40 per
centall-round dufyp is double that proposed.
This viii be the only differentiaI between
raw and refined sugar, because if the re
finer uses sugar of less saccharine strength
than 100, as he must il requires propjr-
tionally more OF sdch sugar to make "A
pound of refined sugar.
An increase has been made in the duty
ID flax and hemp, as well as jute and
manufactures thereof, TO practically the
same as that borne by cotton goods, both
increases the revenue for the time being
and ultimately to develop the linen mani
facture here. From the evidence before the
committee VIC are persuaded that the time
both flax culture and flax manufacture IN
this country, which has been possible only
to a limited extent in coarse articles I'M
der prior low duties. Specimens of goods
made from Minnesota flax are exhibited,
which seem to give pursuance of a new
development in this direction.
For the most part otherwise the increase
of duties in the pending bill to the figures
of the tariff of 1890 have been in the
schedules or paragraphs covering luxuries
like tobacco, liquors. silks, laces, ETC.,
which being articles of voluntary consump-
ton are always regarded rs objects which
will bear the highest duties. The excep-
tions are the eartenware and glass schedule,
the agricultural schedule, on which the
duties have been placed the same as in tie
let of 1890, because no other rates seemed
to be protective.
The iron and steel schedule, except
as to some advance products, has not been
changed from the present law, because
their schedule seemed to be one of the
two of the present law, which are differ
entialed from most OF the others and made
in the main productive. Thus iron ore,
pig iron, steel rails, structural iron, and
most other forms of common iron and steel
remain in the pending bill as fixed in the
tariff of 1894. Tin plate, whose manu-
facture was so successfully established
under the tariff of 1890 by the duty of
2 10 cents, has been increased from the
i 1-5 cents duty of the present law to 1-2
cents, which, it is believed, will prove
as protective as the higher rate of 1890, |
now that the industry has been SO sue
Cessfully accomplished.
The same is true Of the cotton schedule, |
which has been left as was placed in the !