The record-union., 1897-05-26
THE TARIFF BILL
BEFORE THE SENATE,
Continued from First Page.)

refining industry of Great Britain al
most entirely out of existence. They
are, as 1 have already stated, invading
their product Most of the German
granulated imported is the result of
a continuous process of refining. For
months raw beet sugar and German
granulated have sold on absolute par
ity of value, taking into account only
the percentages of pure sugar con-
tained in it. If we assume the cost Of
refining sugar inthe United States to
be approximately one-half cent per
pound, and if the German refined can be
sold without loss on the same basis
with German rawS, it must be evident
that the differentials suggested in the
Senate proposition are not only not eX-
cessive, but they are quite likely in the
near future to prove inadequate to Sc
cure the continuance of the business of
sugar refining in the United States. II
the importations of German granulated
should increase at the same ratio that
they have since the Act of 1894 was
adopted the Germans will certainly Sc
cure at an early day large part of
| the American market. The protection
afforded by the differentials proposed
by the Senate committee is, l believe,
not only less by percentage, but less
with reference to the actual require
ments of the industry, than that af-
forded by rates imposed upon any
other important product by the terms
of the BILL
HAWAIIAN TREATY.
SpnQ II l.
waiian treaty. and said: The COM
mittee will also prepare and present
an amendment to the House provision
in regard to the Hawaiian treaty. The
existing commercial treaty between the
United States and the Government of
these islands provides for the free ad-
mission of raw sugars, the product of
the islands, into the United States If
| this treaty should remain in force, it
would result in giving a bounty to the
Hawaiian sugar producers amounting
to more than SS,000,000 per annum. 1t
was not contemplated, when the orig
inal treaty was made, or when it was
extended, that any possible advantage
of this kind could ever result from its
terms to the people of the Sandwich ISL
ands. The effect of this bounty would
undoubtedly be to stimulate enormous
ly the production of sugar in the Ha-
waiian Islands.
| While we cannot fairly abrogate a
treaty of this kind with a friendly
country without notice, we believe that
negotiations should al once be entered
into looking to such a modification of
the treaty as will reduce the bounty to
be paid Hawaiian sugar producers to
a reasonable sum, and the committee
| Will present an amendment looking in
that direction at an early day. There
should be no difficulty in securing
through the treaty-making power such
| notifications of the treaty as will be
satisfactory TO both countries, without
| injury to either. 1t certainly cannot
be expected that the United States will
continue for any length Of time to pay
a bonus of seven or eight millions Of
! dollars per annum as an inducement
to any foreign country to trade with
us. | assume that there will be no
difficulty in securing proper modifica-
! tions of the treaty, so that it will not
be necessary for the Government of the
! United States to give the one years no
tice of abrogation of treaty as provid-
ed for by its terms.
DUTY ON WOOL
important changes have been made
in schedule K. both in the rates on
| wool and on manufactured woolens In
dealing with the wool schedule, the
committee have suggested more liberal
rates to domestic wool growers than it
has recommended for the producer of
any manufactured article in the sched-
| II hos oil
more effective protection than it has
ever received under any tariff law OF
the United States at the time of its
| enactment The wool growers are
given the benefit of specific duty up
on all classes of wool Under the oper-
alton of this fixed specific duty. the
amount of protection afforded will in
crease with each new decline in the
foreign value Of this raw material
THE committee has aimed to give
the wool growers rate of duty which
will average from 10 per cent. to 20 pc,
cent higher than the rates of earle,
tariffs. In doing this it is giving g
higher protection upon the raw ma
terial than upon the Manufactured pro
duct in every case. Very careful con-
sideration has been given to the com
pensatory duty on woolen goods. with
the result of reducing the compensa
tory rates on low grade goods. into
whose manufacture, more or less ol
other materials than woods enter. Or
the high grade goods the compensatory
duties are fixed on the same basis tina
has obtained in all previous tariffs. The
House bill rate of 80 per cent on car.
pet woods costing less than 13 cents
pound has created more agitation ant
opposition than any other feature of the
wool schedule. 1t is alleged by the WOO
growers that this low rate of duty OF
carpet woods destroys the effective
ness of the protection afforded upol
their grades of wool by reason of tn
temptation it offers to import these low
wools to be used in cheviots, golf suit
ings and other popular fabrics which I'd
not require fine woods.
Without undertaking to affirm
the correctness of these allegations re
garding the extensive use of these car
pet woods for clothing purposes, tn
committee recognized the fact tha
there is some such use made OF them
To remove all possible ground for com
plaint on this score they have fixed tn
duties on class three woods at cents
pound under 10 cents in value, and a
cents pound over that valuation
Under these duties the ad valoren
equivalents will range on the variou
clips from 30 per cent up to 60 pc
cent, and in some instances 20 pc
cent, and they are higher than in an
previous law. 1t is certain that unde
this section foreign carpet woods canno
be imported to take the place of domes