, 1897-03-23

degree OF Saccharine matter. commenc,
ing at l per cent per pound for sugar
pola rizing not more than Is degrees,
and increasing the duty 3-10Oths OF
nc- cent for each additional degree.
This wo I'D make the duty on raw sugar
600 degrees) 1A cents. To this is add
ed Cne-sighth of | cent for such sugar
above No. 16 Dutch standard in color
(refined sugar.. making the duty | cent
and S712-l0Oths. This eighth. with
whatever may be added by the counter
vailing duty on all sugar imported from
export bounty paying countries. is the
maintain The refining industry here, not
withstanding the present differential of
One-efghth and n 40 per cent all round
duty, is double that proposed. This will
be the only differential between raw and
refined sugar, because IL the refner uses
sugar of less saccharine strength than
100, as he must, it requires proportion
ately more OF such sugar to make a
pound OF refined sugar"
Continuing, Mr.. Dingley said that the
80 per cent increase On hemp and flax
was made both in the interest Of rove
nue. and because there was a great prom
ise OF home production. As to the other
increases of duty in the bill, MIR. Ding
ley said: For the most part otherwise,
he increase of duties in the pending bill
over the Mckinley bill have been in the
schedule of paragraphs covering luXu-
ries like tobacco, liquors, silks. laces,
etc, which being articles of voluntary
consumption are always regarded as ar
.icles which will bear the highest duties.
The exceptions are the earthenware and
glass schedule. and the agriculture
schedule, on which the dulles have been
placed the same as in the act of 1890,
because no other rate seemed to be pro-
.ect!ve."
Mr.. Dingley then touched upon some
schedules which had not been materially
changed from the present law. These
" All SLttl III 'pllol.
In all other schedules continued
Mr.. Dingley, the rates proposed in the
pending bill are between the rates of che
tariff OF 1890 and the present law.
There have been transferred from
he free list Of The tariff of 1894 to the
iutiable list of the proposed bill not
only wood, lumber, salt, burlap bags.
cotton bagging and cotton lies. which
never should have been made non-duti-
able. but also argols, crude opium. as
phaltum, chickle, paintings and statuary.
except when imported for free exhibit
lion by an established institution; straw
ornaments. etc, which under existing
conditions ought to contribute some
hing towards the much-needed addi-
tional revenue.
so far as possible the aim has been
10 avoid exclusively ad valorem duties
on articles which have been VIGOROUSLY
undervalued and thus failed to pay the
duties intended-a loss OF revenue which
has been more serious than ever under
The present tariff, in which. outside Of
the meta and cotton schedule, almost
exclusively ad valorem rates prevail.
The better class Of importers have uni,
ted with manufacturers and administer
ers OF the law in asking for this"
Mr.. Dingley next discussed at some
length the ad valorem and specific sys-
tenn and presented figures showing how
disadvantageously the ad valorem sys,
lem worked.
He then presented The estimates as
to the probable revenue that would be
raised by the bill, which were given in
his report with the supplemental state
ment that the second year the bill would
yield 500. 900. 900 increased revenue.
In closing, Mr.. Dingley said: 1T
must be obvious from any point OF view
that prompt action by the two hoses Of
congress is indispensable to secure the
revenue which the intended bill is in.
tended to yield. The exigenecy is an
unusual one. The people without re-
gard to party affiliations, are asking for
action. Business awaits our final decis,
ion. With this great question Of ude-
quate revenue to carry on the governs
ment settled favorably by such an ad,
justment OF duties as will restore to
our W people what has been surrend-
cred to others during the past four years
with restored confidence in the future,
there is reason to believe that gradually
and surely there will come back to us
the great prosperity which we enjoyed
in The decade prior to 1898, and which
the greatest Of living English statisti,
clans so strikingly eulogized when he
said in 1892 that it would be impossible
to find in hist.~y an! parallel to the pro-
gress of the United States in (then) the
last 10 years"
Mr.. Dingley was followed by General
Wheeler of Alabama, who opened for the
minority.
BILLS IN THE SENATE.
Washington March % --1>ho oopata