The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-24

1 raised by this bill from one-eighth OF a
cent a pound by the present law to from
| ference between raw and refined
I opposed putting sugar on the free
| list originally and the substitution OF
4 bounty paid for a tax received. be-
! lieve Yet that the sugar tax being pure
! iy and almost wholly revenue tax. is
| q legitimate tax, but l do not believe
| that while levying that tax we ought t., to
/ foster and perpetuate the sugar trust in
fthe way that it is done in this bill.
Mr.. McMillin criticized also the IN IN
crease of duty on tin plate made IN the
pressiye. "Under the law of 1890, he
said, the duty on tin was increased to
! two cents a pound; When we came to
| was taken off the duty. Gentlemen on
| the other side proclaimed that this was
the ruin of an American industry; that
the reduction would close the tin plate
! factories; that labor would stalk idle
| through the streets. and that hunger
would invade the homes of the working
man. These gentlemen We're neither
prophets, as is proved by the report of
4 Mr.. Ira Aver, special agent of the Treas
ury Department, concerning the tin
! plate industry of the United States.'
Another item in the bill which met his
disapproyal was the retention of the
present, duties on, pig iron and steel rails
While the manufacturers of them in the
/ United States were exporting those pro-
duets. He devoted much time to con-
| sideration of the agricultural schedule
| humbug the farmers
This bill, said Mr. McMillin, carried
| not only higher rates of duty than the
present law, and higher rates than the
/ Mckinley bill, but higher than any law
ever passed by an American Congress or
| groaned under by an American people.
The rates on woollen goods were not only
| higher than ever seen, but the rates on
1 raw wool have been increased by inn
! posing higher duties on the woods coming
| from certain countries than were hereto
! fore imposed. The rate of duty borne by
woollen goods taken as a whole and
averaged would amount to between SO
THUS it is proposed to destroy all pos
sibility of reaching foreign markets with
our woollen goods; to tax the carpets
and clothing of the people more than
double what they are taxed now: to ham
per manufactures by excessive duties on
raw material and proclaim to the Amer
lean people that against the exaction of
the avaricious there is to be no relief
They are given to understand that the
government will hold them while the
manufacturer fleeces them and that
will relieve them
The reciprocity clause of the bill, Mr..
McMiliin said, was remarkable feature
OF this extraordinary bill ut is rernarlS-
able for the fact that it gives into the
hands of the President absolutely the
power to impose taxes and remit taxes
at pleasure. He can impose them this
month-remit them next. He can do so
without convening Congress, or consult
ing it if convened. The taxing power is
thereby surrendered by Congress-its con-
stitutional repository-to an executive
who was never clothed with such power
by any statute framed by those who
adopted the Constitution p
He made much fun of the free list, and
said that the majority admitted that over
the Mckinley bill this measure increased
taxes on the following schedules
Chemicals oils and paints; earth earth
enWare and glassware, wood and manu-
for .r,f IA
cent. to III per cent?, tobacco and manu-
factures OF tobacco (164 per cent?, agri-
cultural products; spirits, wines and 9TH
er beverages; Tax, hemp and jute and
of wool; silk and silk goods; pulp, papers
and books; sundries.
In conclusion Mr. McMillin said
Il beg the gentlemen on the
other side to remember that their
victory obtained last fall was OBJ
money. such an exertion Of bulldozing
elections as was never before witnessed
in this land They must not take such a
verdict as the established and frreyoc-1
able will of the American people. / beg
them to remember that a purchased yer-
diet cannot stand It is true that Bene-
dict Arnold sold himself to infamy, but
he did not thereby sell down the Revolu-a
ton. 1t is true that Judas sold his
Saviour to the Cross, but he did not
thereby sell down the plan of salvation.
feat before and by stern adherence to.
never-failing principle it has regained
power and re-administrated government
Let US now and here resolve anew that
the principles of Jefferson of Jackson,
and of Polk shall be the principles OF
the Democratic party, now as they have
been in the past, and as sure as the day
succeeds the night it will return the
power and restore the government to
the constitutional moorings from which
1t has been wrested by such nallegisla-
tion as that which is being forced upon
us today"
President Dwight of Yale College, and
united in a protest against the action of
the Ways and Means Committee in
placing books and scientific apparatus for
educational institutions on the dutible list
after having been free for many years.
strong protests were also made from
other. educational centres and at today's
meeting Of the Republican members of
the committee the paragraph relating to
these articles was changed SO as to per
nit books and scientific apparatus, charts
lished or made in the United States ex-
pressly imported in good faith by and
for the use Of any regularly established
emy. school, seminary Of learning or free
public library, and netsintended for sale,
to be admitted free of duty
The paragraph relating to artistic naint
ings, statuary, sculpture etchings. draw
fngs, efgravings. photographs, artistic
works IN terra Gotta and other materials
WhlSh epAt ltipOrleG LOT Tree exhibitions
and as such permitted to enter free Of
duty, has been changed SO as to provide
that they shall be on free exhibition one
sixth of the time they remain in this
country In any fixed place by any asso-
citation established in good faith and dulv
authorized under the laws of the United
States or Of any State expressly and sole
ly for the promotion and encourage
ment of science, art or indus
try and not intended for exhibi-
ton The paragraph further provides
that these privileges shall not be allowed
to ASSOCIATIONS, corporations, flrns or
individuals engaged in or connected with
business of a private or commercial char.
acter.
In compliance with the protests of the
fruit importers the paragraph relating
to pineapples, which were made
dutiable at two cents a pound,
pineapples in barrels or other packages
to be made dutiable at six cents per
cubic foot. When imported In bulk fhe
duty will be six cents thousand.
Chlorate of soda was added to Schedule
A, and made dutiable at three cents a
pound.