New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-03-14
RIG DUTY PAYMENTS.
,su OF BUSINESS AT THE CUSTOM
HOUSE.
-.r AMOUNT PAID ON GOODS WITHDRAWN FROM
BOND si2loe96

-ur AMOUNT PAID ON GOODS WITHDRAWN fHoA
BOND si.2Ioe96.
tremendous rush OF business at the
..or, House yesterday. The regular time LOT cos
-, saturday is l o'clock. but II was l;So before
s cashiers office could attend 10 all 'he oroAe's
VIZ ,,,or,ers' clerks who were waiting TO pay du-
- Notwithstanding the fact that I'VE extra men
W. ,rloved 10 receive money and invoices. The
W, :. tho dirty payments was on goods In BOND.
"a .n,se navments were made in anticipation OF
-r,a,,ve provision in the tariff 10 he adopted by
~ extra session OF Congress, which viii assemble
tomorrow
IT. .o.al navu1ents OF duties for the day were
., .Sc ces g. and the payments on goods taken out
" ho,a we're N.2IOs9s So This latter sum was the
80. navn1en, on Withdrawals from bond In he
.,s.orv n the New-York Custom House. II covered
cs Nithii svals. The applications for withdrawal
r,rhered 1000 but only the number named could be
nasses The Sugar Trust withdrew all the sugar it
t,s IN bond Isaac Rosenwald & Co. also withdrew
,he enormous stock OF tobacco they had in bond
The larses; amount OF duties paid in the history
~ me New-York Custom House s23s.OoO. on
August J. 1872. Under the present Wilson law the
Iarges; payment in Gay Sl62s 2s5 p. on Janu-
ary . 1895. on that date the duties paid on WITH
drauals was sl0s7. CSC IS. The Wilson bill went INTO
efect August IS 1894. but the woollen schedules dId
not become operative until January following The
the scaling down Of duties from the war arh under
The Morrill, bill
More than s. 10000 was deposited in the Sub-Treas
rry yesterday for which certificates were taken
20 be used in payment Of duties This iore-
shadows heavy duty payments tomorrow. ss one ne
and another fer $50 900 with William H. North
duties Mr.. Northrup would not receive the GER
tihcates because they were not accompanied Win
Colonel John H. Dunno Of Schwartz Dupee &
Co said yesterday: THE cost OF production or
raw spirits IN this country. owing 10 the abundance
Of corn is considerably less than In any country
II the world. The cost OF putting corn IN barrels
inc uding the cost of cooperage is. however. suf-
fcjeuf along with freight charges. TO debar Amerl-
can spirits from foreign markets, Win te en-
can manufacture will be as universally USED as
American petroleum" -s.-.,..- 49,.
la-e. duty payments. The New-York News Bureau
fur~hed The following yesterday The supply
o. .mmerc.al bills has decreased as makers are
beginning 20 wait for the opening OF interior naVl-
cation Brokers have already booked large orders
IN grain bills TO be sold at that tlme ana II sen,
will go forward. Government estimate notwlth-
standing The demand for bills against European
sales Of securities appears 10 be over. Merchan-
disc importations, however. are beginning 10 sho"
serve sterling. The movement is likely 10 increase
materially from the assumption tsat wool Gu'iss
IN the new tariff are 10 DE restored pracucaIy 10
The large foreign houses are almost unit II
time This is EVIDENT from the fact that they VIII
huv commercial bills, sellers optlon, Two hohtiis
ahead al almost spot prices. on the other hand,
there is little probabi that the market VIII al
vance materially. Throughout the week there mas
been 4 steady moderate pressure 10 sell mat ms
reserve sterling. situation which would haruiy,
AT al, clear Estimates Of the amount in reserve
vary greatly The amount borrowed on has de-
creased largely Some houses are knOvn 10 havs
wholly exhausted their supply; others say that
their supply intact not 10 be used unui the 0c-
casior r-o,,ires H. There are signs that, in the
nast large institutions have bought sixty-day
Hills on their own account buying through tntr
own brokers a factor which has not been consic-
cred In previous estimates. Some very good judges
hold that an estimate Of from S2NrUBJj 10 S-vvpVe
Is not far from correct.