New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-06
TIE HOUSE TARIFF BILL.

The Tariff BILL as amended by the House dur
ing the rush of the closing days of so-called de-
hate, has been printed and compared with the
bill originally introduced March - by Mr.. Ding
ley. 1t will be remembered that he, with the
other Republican members of the committee,
had been engaged in maturing the measure al
most constantly since December J. so that il
was in fact the product Of investigation and
careful work for three months and half. The
committee continued It's labors while the bill
was pending offering amendments I'm part mere
corrections Of phraseology and in part TO cure
Oversights in transcribing, but quite number
Of substantial changes were made after the fur
ther investigation which the committee gave,
with suggestions by all other members of the
House. In all, there were seventy-seven amend
ments, counting each as it appears though
some Of the twelve changes from the free list
to dutiable schedules appear TO have been reck-
Oned twice.
The genera! tenor of these amendments is TO
restore the duties of the Mckinley act in cases
where on first investigation. the committee had
proposed somewhat lower or higher duties The
most numerous changes We're in the chemical
schedule fourteen; in the agricultural schedule
ten and in the sundry schedule nine and much
the greater part of these simply restored the
Mckinley duties. There still remain fully half
the duties of the chemical schedule which are
lower than those of the act Of 1890, while near
| " all the duties of the agricultural schedule are
Just the same and considerable proportion Of
! the sundries schedule.
| The other schedule in which numerous amend
ments were made was that embracing metals,
and here. as in nearly the whole of the schedule
originally introduced, the proposed duties range
| lower than in the act of 1890. The official es-
/ innate by the House committee was that the
proposed duties would yield only S17,l69,962 in
this schedule against S21 0S2 100 actually yield
ed in 1893 a reduction which bears strong testi-
mony to the desire for moderate duties where
these suffice, and to the wonderful progress
made by this industry In overcoming foreign
competition The changes made in the House
placed copper on the free list, reduced bronze or
aluminium leaf from eight to four cents reduced
duties on mica IN small sheets, made provision
for the admission Of pleasure yachts under spe-
| cIal regulations, added duties on welded cylln-
der furnaces, omitted the clause on seamless or
weldless forms and the limit as to weight of
forojngs. added ant-frcton ball bearings at
a. ner cent and restored the old phraseology as
70 fat bar iron The heavy reduction of duties
made in this schedule was not apprccably al
tered by the House.
The changes in the other schedules were few
and scarcely any were Of importance. In earth
en- and glass ware there were three one lower
ing and two raising duties; in wood, two OF no
importance; in sugar, one Of pbraseology only
in tobacco, one raising the duties on snuff to
correspond with others; In spirits, one reducing
the duty on malt extract; In cottons one adding