The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-01-23


net weight, 50 40.
Butter and oleomargarine, net weight
$4.2 20; cheese, net weight, SD.
Salt cod and stock fish, net weight
Soc; herring, picked, smoked, sailed OF
marinated. net weight, Soc; mackerel
picked, smoked, sailed or marinated
net weight. 81; salmon, canned
smoked, sailed or marinated, net
weight, IS.
Oysters Of all kinds, and shell fish,
dried or fresh, gross weight, SOC.
Eggs, 49,
Rice, husked or not, Coo.
Wheat, net weight, 60c; corn, net
weight 1Sc; rye, net weight, 24c; bar
ley. net weight, Soc; oats, net weight
pc.
Wheat flour, 81; rye flour, 81; corn
flour, net weight, 3Oc; oat flour, net
weight, re.
Alcohol. per hectol, $14.
Condensed milk, 10 per cent. ad valo-
rem.
Brandy and all compound spirits not
specially mentioned, in casks. hectol
$21; in bottles or TASKS, hectol, $34
rum, in casks, hectol, $1S WHISTLES, in
casks, hectol, SO; wines, sparkling
liter, Soc.
Liquors and cordials. in casks OF
similar receptacles, liter, 1Sc.
Wines, other: In casks or similar re-
ceptacles, hectol, $3.50; in bottles
hectol, $13.
Beer and cider: Malt liquor, in casks
hectol, $500; cider, hectol, $50.
Il To- n ri
weight, each 500; other, $40; mules
$40; asses, 81.
oxen, 81; cows, $3.50; bullocks
calves and heifers, So.
Pigs, 81; sucking pigs. SOC.
Sheep and goats, 81.
Articles of fireclay, gross weight, lOt
kilos, 30c.
Roofing tiles of clay, not glazed, fol
building purposes, per square, loxlO
$1.5O.
Slabs or conduits, of clay. cement OF
stoneware, gross weight. 100 kilos, soc
Castiron, in pigs, gross weight, l0(
kilos, 10 cents.
Iron, soft or wrought. in ingots, OF
techos, steel ingots, 100 kilos, gros:
weight, 81 cents.
Wrought iron or steel rolled: Rails
gross weight, 100 kilos, 421ac; bars o.
all kinds, Soc; bars of all kinds of cru
chile steel, gross weight, 100 kilos
ST.
Cutlery of all kinds, kilos, 4Oc.
Sewing machines 10 per cent. ad va
lorem
Petroleum and other oils, rectif1ed Of
refined, intended for illumination; ben
zine gasoline and mineral oils not spe
officially mentioned vaseline, gross
weight, 100 kilos, 81.
In the course of his report, upor
which the Porto Rican tariff is largely
based, Special Commissioner Robert T
Porter shows that the value of the i'm
portations. into Porto Rico since Feb
ruary, 1897, amounted to IL, 33S,O6:
pesos. upon which was collected III
duties, 2,4S1 ,962 He says:
1.-The tariff in force in Porto Rice
until the United States took possession
of the island last summer, was purely
al revenue measure, the total amount OF
duty collected averaging about IA pei
cent on the value of merchandise i'm
ported These values. both as to i'm
portation and duties collected, are giver
in silver. and therefore under existing
conditions-two silver Porto Ricar
pesos for one United States dollar
must be divided in order to express the
amounts in United States money. II
the same amount of revenue is re-
quired in Porto Rican pesos, and the
exports are likely to keep up to ths
1897 standard, the fiscal problem CON
fronting the Treasury Department il
hi pvnf
total value of dutiable imports, IL ,53S,
O63 pesos, or $S.769.031; total revenue
to be collected, 50, 481, 962 pesos, or ST.,
240,9S1
s.Discarding the money question
which. after all, in this case is purel.
Porto Rican matter, the simple prob
lem is an importation of about $4,000
600 United States money, and added
revenue of 1,25O.O00 United State:
money.
1.-The aim in framing the Cuban tariff
was to secure a revenue representing
about % per cent ad valorem of tn
imports The aim has been in tn,
Porto Rican tariff to secure revenue
representing about Is per cent ad va
loren in all ports.
.'The value of the importations O
merchandise into Cuba the last nor
NAL year, 1895, was $61, 443 :334 ant
the total revenue collected Thereon
S14 ,5S1, 926, or an average of nearl,
% per cent ad valorem. On the othel
hand. the total value of imported mer
chandise for Porto Rico in 1897, which
SO far as that island is concerned, wa:
a normal year, was 11,35S,063 pesos
and the, duties collected 2.4S1 ,962. pesos
or an average of about IA per cent Ths
basis, in the case of Cuba, was prac
tically gold, and in Porto Rico silver
but that makes no difference in the re
lations of the tariff of the one country
to the other. Speaking roundly, tn,
Cuban tariff included about % PEI
cent, and the Porto Rico, say, abou
Is per cent
1T would be manifestly unjust" Mr.
Porter continues, ito Porto Rico tt
adopt and put in force the amended
Cuban tariff, because it is believed tn,
Cuban revenue will amount to abou
% per cent of the imports, while
- per cent ad valorem tariff, assumine
that the imports keep up to those O.
1897, will yield sufficient revenue fo
the Governmental needs of Porto Rico
The necessities and wants of the two
countries are radically different. Port,
Rico has not been devastated by war
nor will it require a large United State:
army to keep order. There are M
armed insurgents demanding million.
for payment of military services, to b,
charged up to the customs receipts. Fol
these and other reasons the amended
tariff for Porto Rico has been framed
on yielding basis of 10 pei
cent, instead of % per cent, as in tn.
case of the amended tariff of Cuba