The San Francisco call., 1897-03-16

clothing wool classes, but the duty on
clothing woods has been restored to the
rate of the act of 1890.
"In framing this new tariff the aim has
been to make the duties specific, or at
least partly specific, so far as possible, to
protect the revenue and also to protect
our own industries. This has been done
in response to the wishes of the better
class of importers, as we'll as of the ad-
ministrators of the law and our own pro-
ducers. The very great substitution of
specific duties, even where they are only
the equivalent of existing ad vaiorems,
will OF itself increase the revenue and
strengthen the protection offered to our
industries.
'The reciprocity provisions of the act OF
1890 have not only been fully restored, but
this policy has been extended by adding
to sugar, tea, coffee and hides as articles
of which to make reciprocal agreements
such articles as champagne. brandy, wines.
artificial and natural mineral waters, ar
gols and silk laces. In adding these
articles the reciprocity provision is
strengthened greatly by providing for
reduction of duties on them to countries
giving US similar concessions.
"The bill, as a whole, has the unanimous
support of the Republican members OF
the Ways and Means Committee, and
will. 1t is hoped, receive the support not
only of Republicans but of others who be-
lieve that revenue should be at least equal
to expenditures, with small surplus
added, and who are patriotic enough to
entertain the convection that in adjusting
duties to secure such revenue it is
wise policy to encourage home production
and manufactures and thus provide en-
ployment at good wages for the laborers
of our people, upon whose purchasing
power depends the market for our pro-
ductions."
The date when the new tariff is to 20
into effect is named in the preliminary
daft submitted to the House to-day as
May l, 1897 The most important sections
taken out of their order of sequence, are
as follows:
Schedule E-Sugars. Sugars not above No.
16 Dutch standard in color, tank bottoms,
syrups of cane juice, melada, concentrated
melada, concrete and concentrated molasses,
testing by the polariscope not above rs deg,
cent per pound, and for every ad-
ditional degree or fraction Of a degree
shown by the polariscope test .03
OF 1 cent per pound additional; and
on sugar above No.16 Dutch standard in color.
and on all sugar which has gone through
process of refining. 1875 cents per pound;
moiasses testing not above 56 degrees, cents
per gallon; testing So degrees and above,
cents per gallon; sugar DRAWINGS and sugar
sweepings shall be subject to duty as
molasses or sugar, as the case may be,
according to polariscopic tests; sugar, tank
bottoms, syrups, cane juice or beet juice,
melada, conce ntrated melada and concrete
and concentrated molasses, the product of any
country which pays directly or indirectly
bounty on the export thereof, whether i'm
ported directly and in condition as ported
therefrom, or otherwise, shall pay in addition
to the foregoing rates duty equal TO such
bount ty or so much thereof as may be in excess
OF any tax collected by such country upon
such article or upon the beet or cane from
which it was produced; provided that nothing
herein contained shall be so construed as to
abrogate or in any manner impair or affect
the provisions of the treaty Of commercial re-
ciprocity concluded between the United States
and King of the Hawaiian Islands on the 30th
day of January, 1879, or the provisions OF any
act of Congress heretofore passed for the exc
eution of the same.
Maple sugar and maple syrup cents per
pound; glucose or grape sugar, II cents per
pound: sugar cane in its natural state or un-
manufactured, 20 per cent ad valorem.