El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Tenth Year, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1890 Page: 2 of 8
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THE TARIFF BILL
AT LAST BROUGHT FORTH BY M'KINLEY'S
COMMIT TEE.
Protecu'on For a Few Subscriber's to the
Campaign Fund—A Bounty for
Sujrar—The Democratic Min-
ority's Stinging
Rebuke.
Tile Tariff Hill.
WasHifoton, Apiil i0.—Just us the
tariff bill was to be reported to the house
the republican members again changed
their minds and at 11 o'clock this morn*
ing completely changed two of the most
important items in the bill. Acain hides
have been placed on the free list and so
has sugars, but in the latter place the
contmiitee has adopted a provision look*
lilg to the payment of a bounty of two
cents a pound on domestic product.
These changes have been communicated
to the democratic minority members and
as corrections are necessary in the report
these democrats, it is said, will be delay-
ed i'tt their presentation to the house un-
til late this afternoon. It is understood
the su^ar men hive * little confidence in
the continuity of the bounty and they
therefore protested against the change.
Later reports of the majority and mi-
nority of the ways and means com-
mittee on the tariff bill were present-
ed to the house this afternoon. The ma-
jority report begins with the statement of
the financial situation and estimates the
surplus at the end of the present fiscal
year to be tU2 000,000, and deducting the
sum required to make payments of the
sinking fund, the net surplus of receipts
over expenditures will be $43,679,000.
The estimated surplus of the next fiscal
year will be $41570,000 which with the
amount of cash now on hand and avail-
able reaching 890,000,000 will justify a
reduction of revenue in a sum cootem
plated by the bill reported of 130,937,000
and probably more from customs, and
$10,328 000 from internal revenue era
total of 171,264 000. The majority report
further aaJs that the Lbiil as proposed
will result in decreased revenue, that in
all cases except in tin, that incieased
tariff will result in decreased importation
and therefore decreased revenue, and
that the committee aimed to put an in-
cieased rate on manufactured goods and
farm products producible in this country
in order to develop the home market;that
tire committee was not so much concern-
ed about prices of articles we consume
as 11 encourage an increase and diversifU
cation of home products, giving fair re-
turns to producers and wages to Ameri-
can workmen, believing home competi-
tion will regulate the prices, The com-
mittee admits that free trade would cause
st temporary reduction in prices, but
argue it would be at the expense of do-
mestic products and that prices would
then advance and |with the country at
tne mercy of foreign syndicates and man-
ufacturers, the ultimate result would thus
be disadvantageous to both capital and
labor. The committee says that the
country least prosperous in which
low price? and wages prevail and point
to the present agricultural depression as
a. sample The committee believe it bet-
ter to raise the $500,000,000 necessary to
run the government by taxing foreign
imports, than to take it from domestic
products That the entire bill is based
upou protection to American industry,
but at the same time recommending no
duty above the point of difference be-
tween normal cost of production here in-
cluding labor and cost of like production
abroad The report then takes up the
details of the bill and says that the re-,
duction iu revenues from placing on the
free list chemicals not produced in this
country will amount to 1875,000 and
cites figures to show the decline
in the wool production. It says
ail advance of uuties has been recom-
mended which will afford ample protec-
tion to the wool grower. While the sen-
ate bill fixed the duty on third clast wool
at four cents, the committee makes it
three and a half cents, with a change in
the definition and classifications, etc .
which will compensate for the difference.
The committee believes the country
should produce all the wool it consumes
Mid this can be done by the addition of
■one hundred million sheep to the present
number. The report sajs the bill seeka
to stop shameless frau is which have been
practiced in the importation of wools and
woolen goods and declares that duriug
the past fiscal year undervalued invoices
showed the importation of woolen manu-
facturers va ued at fifty-two million six
hundred and eighty-one thousand dollars,
Where as the real market value was near-
ly ninety million, equivalent to the im-
portation of one hundred and sixty million
pounds of wool. The present bill, it is
argued, by increasing the duty on fine
wools, will transfer to this country fifteen
to twenty million dollars in woolen manu-
factures. The average rate of the woolen
goods schedule proposed is 91 and 78
against the present rate of 07 and 15,
Of metal schedules the report says:
!lso reduction cin tic made in pit' iron
ore duties without detriment to existing
industries and the committee has not felt
justified in interfering with the further
development of iron ore resources which
now seem promising in southern states.
With regard to pig iron it is said it is in
no sense raw material. It is the product
of the highest skill, requiring for manu-
facture lar«e and expensive plants. The
capital which is invested in it in Our
country today is more than usual that is
invested iu any other branch of our iron
and steel industries. Pig iron is made in
twenty-live states of the union, There
port strongly sustains the increased duty.
Of sugar the rep >rt says the committee
recommends that sugar up to and include
ing No 16 aDd molasses be placed on
the free list, with a duty of four tenths
one cent per ponnd on refined
i.ugar above 16 and a bounty of two cents
per pound paid from the treasury for a
period of 15 years for all su^ar polarizing
at least 85 per cent, made in this country
from cane, beet or sorghum, produced in
the United States In lfcibb the cousump
tion of sugar in the United States was
1,460,997 tons or 531 pounds par inhabit*
ant. Of this only 189,814 tons were pro-
duced in the United Slates, bo large a
proportion of su^ar is imported that the
home production of sugar does not ma
terially effect the price and the duly
therefore is a tax which is added to the
price, not only of the imported but of the
domestic product substantially to the hx
tent of our wants In 1889 duties col
lected on imported suirar and molasses
amounted t« *55,975,610. Add to this the
increase pi ice of domestic sugar arising
from ttio duty and it is clear tue duty on
sugar and molasses made the cost of sugar
and molasses at least $64,0o0,00u or about
one dollar for each man, woman and
child in the United States more than
would be if no such duties were levied
and domestic product had remainec
even ou the assumption that w.th
proper encouragement we shall even-
tually be able to produce all or nearly
all the sugar required for consumption
by our people Tnis encouragement can
be given much more economically and
effectually by a bounty of 2 cents per
pound, involving, expenditure of but
little more than $7 OltO.OOO per annum
with the present production of sugar in
this country thau by the imposition of a
duty involving the collection of $55,875
610 in duties as in the last fiscal year
not to mention the amount indirectly in
volved. "Iu providing not only raw
sugar, but also 6ugar including No.
ltt be admitted free of duty an opportun
ity is given for the free introduction of
yellow sugars suited for family use, an
arrangement which will secure to the
people sugar at the lowest price existing
in the markets of the world, while even
imported white refined sugar will be sub
ject to a duty of only four-tenths of one
cent per pound "
Coming to the agricultural products
the report says the committee has given
most of its investigation to the existing
conditions of agriculture of kindred mat
ters. Referring to the widespread de
pression of this industry the report says
the enemies of the protective system have
no word of criticism for the real causes
of agricultural depression, no suggestion
of relief from the real burdens which are
weighing it down t -day, but seizing the
present as a favorable time they solemn-
ly charge that the decline in our market
is solely due to the tariff. They are
pleased to ignore the fact that one of the
purposes of protective tariff is to hinder
the still larger importation of foreign
product and thus save the market from a
still greater depression, but your com-
mittee is sensible to the importatnee ol
this industry and is prompted by a single
motive to lift it to a higher level of profit
able employment and believe they offer
in this bill all the relief which tariff legis-
lation can give to it. A critical examina-
tion of the subject shows that agriculture
is suffering from damaging foreign compe-
tition in the home market. I he increase
importation of agricultural products since
1850 has been enormous, amounting from
$40,00,000 to more than $356,000,000 in
1889. The world's market to which the
advocates of tariff for revenue only invite
the farmers of this country is today
crowded with the products of the cheap-
est human libor the earth can afford. All
over the old world there is a rush of this
surplus to :hat market and it is to such
contest as this that free trade-
would allure American agriculture
With the foreign grain market under the
sway of oppressive competition; with the
foreign cattle and pork market depressed
and obstructed by ruinous measures of
restriction; with foreign agricultural
products crowding over the home mirket
your committee have recommended an
increase upon the agricultural products
with a view to increasing the number ot
gdnful occupations open to the farmer.
The committee has recommended a
bounty to growers of silk as
a duty of $1 per pound would
be required tojprotect the ' American silk
aqd reeler and the committee decided so
high a duty would etnbarr+ss the silk
weaving interests without sufficient rea-
son, and to secure the industry as speed-
ily as possible, offers a necessary differ-
ential bounty of $1 per pound or about
20 per cent protection on reeled silk.
The report says: "To produce our annual
importation of reeled silk will require
14,000 basins and give work to over
20,000 persons in different branches of
the industry. To produce cocoons nec-
essary to supply this silk will give tem-
porary but remunerative employment to
the families of half a million farmers
every season.". To eicourage the pro
duction of cocoons and give direct en*
couragement to producers the committee
has also provided a bounty of Beven
cents per pound for fresh cocoons, the
bounties to continue ten years.
Of the internal reveuue sections the
committee says it recommend-
ed the repeal of all statutes im
posing restrictions upoa. farmers and
growers, so they may sell with freedom.
In conclusion the report said of the ad-
vance of duties on agricultural products,
that they are for the most part article*
which this country can produce to the
extent of our wants. Increased duty will
re luce the importations so revenues w 11
not be increased and our farmers will
hold their own markets. The same re-
sult will follow in other cases ot increase
and where the revenue in special cases is
increased the increase will be far lost
than indicated by computation based on
the theory of importations which will
continue as large as under more duties,
JI'NOKITY RKl'OKT,
The minori y report is signed by all the
democratic members Gf the committee
It says the minority contends for a prin-
ciple of just and equal taxation upon all
according to their ability to bear the bur-
den, while the majority has in this bill
thoroughly committed itself to a pclicy
of unjust and unequal taxation of mmy
for the benefit of a few. We are as anx-
ious as the majority can possibly be to
promote and encourage American indus-
tries and advance the interests of Ameri-
can laborers, but we believe both these
objects can be accomplished by reduciug
taxation and not by increasing them.
The majority after months of labodous
invtstiiration has been able to satisfy a
part only of the demands made upon it.
The only remedy is to remove as
fur as possible the artificial burdens
and restrictions and give to all our indus-
tries an equal chauce in the field of com-
petition at home and abroad. According
to statements made before the committee
protected industries of the country have
ntver been at auy time in our history in
sucti depressed and discouraging condi-
tion as now, after nearly thirty year# of
continuous protection. A great mauj
parties engaged in these industries d clare
that the slightest reduction of duty would
compel them to close their works and dis-
charge tueir employes and others have
even gone so fat as to assert that they
would be forced tu go out of business if
the rates of taxation are not increased.
At the same time the laborers in these in-
dustries are complaining of insufficient
wages, repeated 8UbpeL8ion of work and
a general condition of insecurity. Thesj
laborers fullv realizing the fact that this
system has wholly failed to incretse their
earnings or improve their coudition in any
way and have been compelled to organ-
ize trades of unions and resort toother
methods and combine in co operation for
self protection; aud these various organ-
izations now affjrd the only efficient
means at their command for the preser-
vation ot even the existing rates of wages
The report starts that the re nedy pro-
posed by the majority iu the imposition
of more taxes up^u every urticle of for-
eign origin whtoh the people of this couu
try desire to buy and for which they are
ready and anxious to exchange for cot-
ton which they cannot spin, corn and
wheat which they cannot consume, oil
and coal that they cannot bum and many
other productions. I'he majority bill is
framed upon the assumption that as our
industries grow older they grow weaker
and more dependent upon the bounty of
the government. It devolves upon these
advocates now to explain if they can why
it is that after the low tariff policy was
abandoned more than a quarter of a cen
ttiry aud a high tanll policy substituted
in its place the manufacturing
and mechanicil industries of the
couutry are less able to maintain them
selves than they were when the change
was made and when this is done it will
still remain for them to show upon what
principle of justice or policy, consumer?
can Oe periodically subjected to additional
taxation for the exclusive) benefit of
private business enterprises. The silk
bounty is sev< rely criticized, The report
says the bill will increase taxes on wool
and woolens fifteen million five hundred
thousand dollars per annum, according to
hst year's mportations, but really to a
much greater sum, while taxes ou tobacco
to the amount of $8,860 994 are abolished.
The minoriiy Cannot agree to do this at
the price of increase on necessaries. The
report attacks some of the details of the
bill Among other things, it says one
grade, of course cheap, blankets are to
lie required to pay 196 ner cent, but the
finest blankets pay 72 per cent. The
coarsest and cheapest woolen hats will be
subject to a duty of 111 per cent and the
tiuist to 66 percent. This addtd to duties
on articles remaining on the dutiable list
shows a total increase of duties on articles
still dutiable outside of the sugar sche-
dule of about $65,000,000, and we are
satisfitd it is more than that. We do not
mean to assert the bill actually increases
the customs revenue $65,000,000 over
what it is but that it proposes to impose
upon articles on the dutiable list, except
sugar and molasses, that sum in excess of
the amount collected on the same sche-
eules tast year. It places upon the free
I st articles which yielded a revenue of
f6,( 39.66t) during the last fiscal year and
makes a reduction of $54,922,110 on su-
gar and molasses and the two sums,
amounting to $60 963,097, being deducted
from t65,t'00,000 leave but an increase of
more than 14,000,000 in tariff taxation
under this bill.
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El Paso International Daily Times. (El Paso, Tex.), Vol. Tenth Year, No. 92, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 17, 1890, newspaper, April 17, 1890; El Paso, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth460425/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Library Consortium.