Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1897-03-16
NEW TARIFF LAW.
The Measure Practically Completed
by the Committee.
An Outline of the Various Schedules
Indicates an Increase of $780,
100000 Yearly in the
Revenues.

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The process Of construction of the tariff
bill has, however, reached the point
where the members of the committee
figure out all increased revenue of $780,
100000 on the basis of present importa-
tons. The deficit for the current fiscal
year will be $4,000, 900, so the new bill
is expected to furnish an immediate
surplus OF $5,O0O,00O, and more as the
times improve.
The status of the tariff bill, compre-
hensively expressed, is as follows:
Wine schedule as Mckinley bill.
Tobacco schedule of Mckinley bill,
except duty upon leaf tobacco for cigar
filters, which is nearly doubled at Is
instead of IS cents per pound.
Cotton schedule same as Wilson bill,
except as to fine yarns and cloths made
therefrom, which have been slightly ad-
vanced.
Wool schedule of the Mckinley bill
entire except that a few varieties of
clothing woods heretofore classed with
carpet woods have been transferred to
class one, the clothing wool class.
Metal schedule as to iron and steel
makes few changes in the rates of the
Wilson bill except to reduce them, and
in hardly any case does rate reach the
old Mckinley rate.
Tin plate midway between act of 1890
and the present law.
The agricultural schedule of the Nc
Kinley law has been practically re-
adopted, except that duties on cattle
over one year old are made six dollars
instead of ten dollars, this rate being
prohibitory on Mexican cattle. Cattle
valued above $40 are given an ad va
loren of 20 per cent rate.
The sugar schedule fixes a rate of
63-1oo cents on 90 degree sugar, rising
above that degree and falling below it
3-100 of cent for each degree OF sac
charine strength. The differential of
one-eighth cent and counter paying
duty against bounty paying countries
is made exactly equal to the net bounty
paid.
Silk schedule preserves the Mckinley
rates in substance, though in many cases
an effort has been made to reduce them
to an equivalent specified by the pound.
Flax, jute and hemp schedules follow
closely the lines of the Mckinley law,
though on some varieties of Chinese
and Japanese mattings the duty has
been greatly increased, as also on rugs
and carpets of the cheap varieties now
being imported from the orient.
Building Irvine is placed on the free
list, but a nominal rate is to be kept on
it. against Canada until that country
removes it's duty on binding Irvine i'm
ported from this country. The word
''burlaps" disappears from this sched-
ule owing to gross frauds, and thus
cloth or jute is described as a plain
woven fabric of single jute yarns
In the wood schedule the Mckinley
law rates on lumber are restored with
few changes. Among these are hem
lock and white pine, now dutiable at
one dollar, are lifted to the two dollar
rate along with spruce, though none of
the rates on the lumber schedule reach
20 per cent.
Mckinley law rates are restored in
substance on the paper schedule. though
some changes of classification are made
and few changes of rate, owing to the
introduction of a large variety of tissue
paper from China to Japan.
Earthenware goes back to the Nc
Kinley bill rates. This industry has
suffered more than any other from
differentiation and the ways and means
committee has not yet despaired of
working out a scheme of specific duties.
In the sundries schedule, the last of
the bill, Mckinley law rates have been
restored substantially on coal, gloves,
leather and corks, though cork less
than half an inch in diameter has been
advanced to IS cents.
There have been great reductions
made in the free list by the removal
therefrom and by the restoration of the
Mckinley law rates on lumber, salt,
wool, and. in fact, everything that the
people of the United States can and do
produce, and many luxuries which they
cannot produce. The free list has also
been cleared of a lot of paragraphs
which had some excuse years ago, but
have become obsolete and mere refuge
for fraudulent? importations. Among
these are the paragraphs except
apparatus, many descriptions of books,
household furniture, curious antiques,
goods brought into the United States
by Indians crossing the border. and
many other obsolete provisions of che
law.
1t is the purpose of the committee to
devise provision that will enable reci-
procity treaties to be made, not only to
secure the larger importation of Amer
lean manufactures into the South and
Central American countries. but also
to open the markets of European coun-
tries. particularly Germany and France.
to the freer use of American meats and
agricultural products generally.
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