The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-03-23

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JUST 'hen as to secure to our own rna-i
inc production and Manufacture NJ 80.
arlicies as We can produce mr. male ~.
ourselves without natural disadvan,ssa
anu mus provide more abundant onnors
,unities Tor our labor. No economic nn,,cv
WI ploNe success unless 1t shall In
some manner contribute to opening az, go. -
ployment to the masses OF our r.o ur e'a
eood wages. When this shall Ia acc,,,N
pished ana thus the purchasing nowar n,
the masses restored. then. and no, mt,
then' VIII prices cease to feel The dsnre.
sing eject Of under CONSUMPTION and Inc
prosperity OF our people rise to the stand
ard of 1892. '"' s'"""
the past four years have been enligh,en.
economic problems. We have been Mt.
lending kindergarten on a gigantic scaie
me tuition has come high but no neonlo
ever learned so much In so brief ,imc
i.rtalter theories. preached in however
captivating language. will have to give
way 10 the teachings Of experience.
II mas peen the favorite assumption OF
some theorists that revenue and prote, :
ZION IN the same tariff schedule are i'm.
possible But we have had in the past
seven years. In the contrasted working of
me protective wool schedule of the tariff
o. 1894 most striking demonstration
otherwise '''' "''o''
mI, pintiey then gave some statistics
reiatiVe TO the Importance of tariff on wool
s ns 'mo sag 'hat by placing wool on the
Iree list, the treasury lost s2l 600 am ;n
revenue and the farmers 100000 900 per
year and that this country had not been
dple 10 increase its exports OF nonufoc :
'ufers woods. 1t had been claimed ha
went on. that the price of clothing Ind
oeen reduced, but this was only in appear
a , because people had been deprived OF
Worh ana wages and found II harder 10
buy clothing than before The new srboJ
ulc would aid the wool grower incr,ose
manufactures and ultimately increase tho
revenue "'' 'iie
speaking OF the sugar schedule Mr.
Dihsiey said 1T would increase the revcnue
anu encourage such production in tbIs
country !" ui's
continuing, Mr.. Dingley said that tho In =
iease on max and hemp was made bath
-. .ne interest OF revenue and because
,here was n great promise of home nro.
duction. As to the other increases of
duties in the bill to Mckinley rates Mr.
Djngley said: '"'e'' MI
fpr the most part otherwise. the in
crease Of duties In the rending hin m Tho
iisures OF the tariff Of 1890 have boen in
.ne schedules of paragraphs covering lux
u , IKE tobacco, liquors. silks, iaces. etc.
Which being articles OF voluntary con
sumption are always regarded ne o,tont.
Wnich VIII bear the highest duties The
exceptions are the oarthenware and gl.ss
scheduie and the agriculture schedule on
Nhlch the duties have been placed tho
Same as In the act of 1890 because M otbnr
raves seemed TO be protective.
Mr, 'lhsley briefly touched upon sn,ne
s s,, which had not been materially
ciu0ed iron. steel and cotton.
IN all other schedules cnptt,uaJ NJ
plhgiey the rates proposed in the pend-
ing Dill are between the rates of the tar
III or 1870 and the present law
mere nave been transferred from the
Tree list OF the tariff OF 1894 to the duti-
apie list of the proposed bill rot cnlv wool
lu,hper. SAT-, bags, cotton bageing, and
cotton ties which never should have haer
made non dutiable, but also argoIs crude
opium asphaltum, paintings and .tatuary
except when imported for free exhibition
by an established institution; straw orna-
ments, etc, which under existing condi-
lions ought to contribute something to-
ward the much needed additional revenue
SO far as possible the aim has been 10
AVOID exclusively ad valorem duties on mr.
ticles which have been VIGOROUSLY under
valued and thus failed to pay the duties
intended, loss Of revenue which has been
more serious than ever under the present
tariff in which, outside of the metal md
cotton schedule almost exclusively adj
valorem rates prevail. The better class of
importers have united with manufacturers
and administrators of the law in asking
for this"
Mr.. Dngley next discussed at some
length the ad valorem and specific sys-
TENS and presented figures showing how
disadvantageously the ad valorem system
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 statement that the
second year the bill would yield 500, OoO.-
600 increased revenue.
When Mi Dingley finished at the end
Of about an hour the republicans applaud
ed for fully minute. the galleries Join
ing in the demonstration.
General Wheeler of Alabama, the old
cavalry leader of the Confederacy, opened
for the opposition.
Mr. Wheeler began with the statement
that the bill had been secretly prepared
by tho eleven republican members OF the
committee on ways and means and framed
almost in the language OF the petitions
presented by protected interests Since the
star chamber measure came to light on
last Monday, he said. TIE conservative
press OF the country had denounced It In
unmeasureG terms. The bill increased ihe
duty on many articles far above the Nc
Kinley rates and in some instances ex-
oesdad the Mckinley rates from so to 100
per cent Nearly every paragraph was
changed from the ad valorem rates under
the Wilson bill TO either specific or COM
pound rates, the effect OF which was to
increase enormously the duty on cheaper
articles that are purchased ny those VINO
work and lessen the tariff upon the ex-
rensive articles that are purchased only
by the rich BY transferring an enormous
quantity of wool from class } to class l.
tho duty on raw woods was Increased lar
beyond any bill ever presented 10 an
American congress Woods that pa'o -
per cent under the Mckinley bill would
now, he said, pay an additional ad valorem
Of between 700 and 300 per cent and pos,
sibly more. The duty on Corduroys useu
Inv tn, roor was increased to about l2S per
cent-prohibitory The bill restored the
duty upon burlaps from jute used as oas-
einr. grain and fertilizers while the on,y
hurlap of the description made IN th's
country was made In prisons carpets OF
iuto purchased by the poor mad been raiseu'
he said, to an equivalent OF l5o per cent,
while those used by the rich were taNen -
nov cent. The tax on water proc, slo.n