The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-02-05
Points Of the Measure Which VIII
Supplant the Wilson Tariff.
FARMERS INTERESTS GUARDED
Increased Rate on Cattle, Though Not SO
High as the Mckinley Tar1f--Inorease
in the Rate on Plate Glass--Mo-
Kinley Rates on Fruits
and Berries.

laid before the next congress to a stage
where the character of the Measure
a be somewhat gagged, and where
certain of the mostimportant schedules
are definitely fixed.
-Four schedules have now been fairly
completed, the chemical, agricultural,
wines and spirits, and earthen and
glassware schedules. All of the rates
which have been decided upon are sub
tect to change before the committee
finishes the bill, but most of them will
probably remain as they have been
fixed in the first draft of the bill.
The most important step in oonnec-
ton with the agricultural schedule
was the establishment of rates of So a
head on cattle more than 1 year old
and of 25 per cent. ad valorem on cattle
valued at more than $40 a head The
Mckinley rates on other live stock, in
Guiding the rate of 81 on cattle of 1
year old or less, are restored. The Will
son rates We're 20 per cent. ad valorem
on live stock, and while the new duty
Of So on cattle does not reach the Nc
Kinley figures of $40 on cattle more
than 1 year old, it is expected that,
with the ad valorem on the more valu-
able grades, it will prove adequate to
shut out Mexican cattle. 1t is against
the Mexican stock that the increase is
particularly directed, on the repre-
sensations of western cattlemen that
their business had been ruined by the
importations from Mexico under the
Wilson law.
Much interest centered upon barley,
which the committee puts back to the
Mckinley duty Of 30 cents a bushel,
because the farmers contended that
the Wilson tariff had turned over the
market into the hands of the Cana
dams, while the masters who have
been using Canadian barley have made
@ hard fight against any increase. The
Mckinley rates have been restored or
fruits and berries, mainly for the bene-
fit of the fruit w of the Pacific
coast. The fruit exchanges OF the
country had prepared a schedule Of
rates below the Mckinley bill, al
though above the Wilson rates, but
they did not succeed in having their
schedule adopted.
Among the products in the agricul-
ture schedule which are returned to
the Mckinley rates are breadstuffs,
rice, dairy products, potatoes and
starch, castor beans and flax seed,
meats and meat products, eggs and
poultry, vegetables and salt. The de-
mand Of the farmers for the McKin-
ley rate of $4 a ton N hay instead Of
the Wilson rate of 50, was granted.
Chicory is placed at one cent a pound,
in accordance with the requests of the
growers in the central states, who be-
lieve that they can capture the home
market with protection. Rates on
oranges have not been fixed yet, but
the committee has decided to change
] H. .Ta--snaa#sA- aAI .1aT-l Tho w1ka1
higher than those of the Mckinley bill,
for the benefit of the California inter
ests.
In the chemical schedule many Of the
Wilson rates will be retained. The
Wilson duties on soaps, and on sodas
and kindred chemicals which are the
raw materials of soap, are left I'M
changed. The present rates on oils,
including castor oil, also will be re-
tanned, except where changes are made
necessary by the restoration of duties
on the raw materials which enter into
them, as in the case of linseed oils.
There win be but slight changes in the
rates on paints and dye stuffs and
their constituent elements. The duty
on borate of lime will be two cents a
pound, on refined borax three cents,
n on bOracic acid three cents, which
are compromises between the McKin-
ley and Wilson rates. The duties on
lead in ores is placed at ne cent a
pound, on pig lead two cents, and on
white lead and lead acetates two and
one-half cents.
The committee has decided to retain
the Wilson rates on wines and spirits
throughout the wine and spirit sched-
ule. The schedule of the Wilson act
urog uaparo1Ivr hfobar in tie otoe fbon
in the Mckinley act.
The committee has devoted some
time to the consideration Of manufac-
lures of iron and steel and ottonmanu-
features, but has not perfected these
schedules. In the cotton schedule there
Will be few changes from the present
law, except i'm rates on finer yarns and
the most costly fabrics. The changes
in the iron and steel schedule will be
limited to a few s~pecialties, like cotton
ties, on which Mckinley duties will be
restablished, on tin plate, which has
not been settled, and some forms Of
tube steel and surgical instruments.
No other schedule has given the
committee so much trouble as the one
which includes earths, earthenware
n glassware. 1t has been claimed by
ell the pottery and glass interests that
the Wilson law q proven destructive
to their interests, and that no system
Of ad valorem levies could properly
protect them. Accordingly the COM
mittee has determined to adjust the
items Of the schedule to such specific
duties as win be equal to the duties Of
the Mckinley law, most Of which was
ad valorem. On account of the decora-
tive features of such wares, which
often are the chief element in their
value, it is particularly difficult to adj
just satisfactory specific rates.
Plate glass has been arranged as fol-
lows: Under 10 by "a inches. eight
cents per square foot (present rate
hve) above Nc by "a and not exceeding
"a by 30, twelve cents (present rate
eighO; above "A by 80 and not exceed
ing "a by go, the present rate oftwenty-
two and a half cents; an above "a by
go, the present rate Of thirty-hve
cents.
Lumber win he the next subject
which win engage the committees at
tention.
Throughout the work the poliov of