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and chains of all kinds, made of iron or steel, %0 per cent ad valorem. 1"he motal schedules are almost wholly by aa valorem duties, as follows Tron in pigs, 214 per contum ad valorem All iran in slabs, blooms, loops or other forms, more advanced than pig iron and less finished than fron in bars, 25 per centum Bar iron, rolled or hammered iron, in coi or rods and bars or shapes of rolled iron, 30 per centum. Beams, girders, joists, ear truck channels and shapes of iron or stoe Boiler or other plate iron or steel, except saw plates not thinner than No. 10 wire gauge, sheared or unsheared, and skilp iron and stecl, sheared or rolled in grooves, 30 per centum Forzings of iron steel combined, 30 scroll iron or steel, ont Railway bars made of iron or steel, and railway bars mado in part of steel, common or black. including alt iron or steel. commer. clally known ns common or tagwers iron or steel, and skilp iron or steel, #5 per cent Alllron or stecl sheets or plates, and all hoop, band or scroll iron, excopting what known commercially as tin plates, tere plates dnd taggers tin, or when galvanized or conted with zine or zpelter or other metals, or any alloyof those metals, 35 per ~cent ad valorem Sheet iron or sheot polishedy planished or glanced, 35 per cont. Sheets or plates of iron or steel, or taggers iron or steel, coated with tinor lead or with a mixture, commer- cially know as tin plates, and tagygers tin 40 por cont. Steel ingots, cogged ingots, blooms and slabs, sheets and plates not speciaily pro- vided for in this act, and steel in all form and shapes not specinlly provided for, 25 per centum, ron Forgings for Vessels. Aunchors, or parts thereof, of iron or teel and wrought iron for ships and forgings of iron or steel for vessels, stoam cugines and locomotives, 25 per contum ad valorem. Boiler or other tubes, pipes, flues or stays of wrought iron or steol, 25 per centum. Cast iron pipe of every description, 25 per cenvum ad valorem. Chaius of all kinds made of 1ron or steel, 80 per cent ad valorem. Penknives or pocket knives of all kinds, or parts thereof, and razovs or razor blades, finished or unfinished, valued at not more thun 00 cents per dozen, 85 per cent ad valorem, abovo that, 45 per centum. Tablo knives, forks, steels and all carving, cooks and butchers knives, forks and steels, es, finished or unfinished, 35 per cent angles, chanuels, 1 other structural 5 por centum or stecl or forged iron or ut. Hoop, band or shotguns and ) per cent , muzzle-loading sporting rifles and parts thereof, ad valorem (no change) Svorting, breech-loading shotguns and pistols and parts thereof, 80 percent ad valorem. Cut nails and cut splints of iron and steel, horseshoo nails, hob nails and all other wrought iron or steel nails mot specially provided tor, 25 per cent. Needles for knitting or sewing machines, crochet needles and tape needles and bod- kins of metal, 2 per cent. Present law 25 per cent. Crosscut saws, circular saws, and all other saws, 25 per cent. Screws, 80 per cent ad valorem. Wheels, or parts thercof, made of iron or steel and stecl tired wheels for railway purposes, whether wholly or partly finished, and iron ov steel locomotive, car, or othe railway ties or parts thereof, wholly or purtly manufactuved, 85 per cent ad valorem. Alumi alloys, wnd, buck num, or alummum in crude form for per cent ad valorem. Copper and Load, Copper in rolled plates, called braziers copper sheets, rods, pipes and copper bot- toms, 20 per cent ad valorem. Lead, or lead dross, 15 percent ad valorem, upon the lead contained therein, according to sample and suy at port of entry, pro- vided that all orves containing silver and ®jead, in which the value of the silver con- tents shall be greater than the value of the lead contents, accordmg to sample and assay at port of entry, shall bo considered silver ores. f.ead in pigs and bars, molten and ol refuse lead ruu into blucks and bars and old scrap lead, fit only to be manufactured, 1 cent por pound. Pens, metallic, except gold pens, 35 per cont ad valorem ; penholder tips, penholders or parts thereof-and gold pens, 25 per ad valorem. Preseut law 80 p valorem. K Pins, metallic, meluding hairpins, safety pins, shawl and belt pins, not commercially known as jewelry, 20 per cent ad valorem. Present law 80 per cont ad valorom. ‘ype metals and new types, 15 per cent ad m. in val Zine lorem, Zine in sheets, blocks or pigs, 30 per cent ad va- per cent ad valorem. Manufactured articles of wares not spe- cially provided for in this act, composed whoily or in part of any metal,whether partly or wholly manufactured, 35 per cent ad va- lorem. Present law, 45 per cent, As Rogards the v The bill repeals the pr ent law for sugar bounties by installments,” by providing that these bounties shall be reduc »-oighth part of their respective amounts each year, beginning with July 17 xtending to July 1, 1902, inclusive 1 thereafuer ceuse. : he Wilson bill also roduces the duty on all sugars above the 16 degrees standard from five-tenths of 1 cent per vound to tive- wwentioths of 1 cent, On all leaf tobaceo, or such part thereof as is commercially known as wrapper tobacco, id switable for cigar wrappers, if un- stemmed, the auty is tobe 31 per pound. 1f stemmod $1.25 per pound.. ‘The present duty is 2 und 75 per pound. All other leaf tobacco, if unstemmed, 1s fixed at 85 cents per pound; it stemmed 50 cents per pound. us at presont, Cigars, cheroots and cigarettes of all kinds, inciuding wrappers, $3 per pound. and 25 pel centad valorem, The present duty is $4 pe pound and 25 per cent Spool thread or cotton, containing one- ineh spool, not exceeding 100 yards of threpd, 415 conts per dozen, and also for every addi: tiopal 100 yaras of thread 41 ceits per pound. Present law, 7 cents per pound. Tmpost on Breadstufls. \dstufls, of which wo are immense o3 porter made free, except when im- ported from countries putting duties on our {ike products, in which case it 1s 20 per cent. Fresh vegetables, fruits, eggs and like tood products ave untaxed for the bencfit of our own consumners, latgely the working peoplo of the eities, Saltin bulk is freo. Pu but the covering is dutia s ribed for like articles, “Tho taviff on spirits is put at double the fnternal revonuo tates on like spirit somo slizht uction is made on still wines, malt liguors, giuger alo and liko beve in the ‘wuterest of increased reveny duty on sparkling wines is likowiso slightly vediced for tho same reason, that o cham- pazne being put at & per dozen quarts, as 1nst 86 in the MeKinley and §6 i the law 188, In cotton manufactures substantial redue- tions are made, aud especially on cheap clothis and prints, and tho existing systen of tuxing by count'of throad in the square ineh i retained Homp and flax a of hewp und flax spociivoly Burlaps and covton and grain bage Bounties. vision of the pres king salt is fr o at rates pre o made free; Lcent and g are SERIES ONE NOVEMBER 28, 1893. THE BRR COUPON. World's Fair Art Portfolio. Yo secure this Superb souvenir send or bring six coupons of this series boaring different dutes Wil 10 cents in coin to AT PORTFOLIO DEPT, _Bee Office, Omaha. dressed line 135 contsre - | oovored or uncovered, whe | | not aecorated in | or ‘looking_glass THE OMAHA DAILY varasanuny put at 15 per cent, but when imported for covoring artieles to be exporied arp duty free Wool is made free. This takes the stilts from under woolen manufactures and bogets the hope that they may rocover from the languishing condition in which they have been for a quarter of a century, and that we may get woolen goods at reasonable rates in stead of at duties t on. the common grades, frequently reach 100 per cent, and in cases two or three times that merciless fig- ure. Clothes and Dry Coods. Clothes and dry goods are put atd0 per cent; clothing at 45 per cent:rates nigher than the committee desired, but decmed temporarily necossary bocause of our man- ufacturees having 8o lone been excluded from two-thirds of the wool of the world that they will have to learn the art of manu facturing froo wool. A sliding scale is therefore adoed, by which the rates in the woolen schedule ave to come down five points with the lapse of five years. Car pets, an_industry in which we will soon be independent of competition. are put at 35 por cent for Axminsters, Mogquette and Wil ton, % per cent for Brusscls, while common gfades go down to 20 per cent, Thie bill provides that the duty shail be removed from wool on March 1, and reduced on woolon gonds July 1 In the silk schedules the deduction of rates is smnaller than in cotton or woolen fabrics. Sole leather is reduced from 10 w0 b per cent Leather gloves are classified nccording to material and longth and are uniformly rated at specific duties, which average not over 23 per cont on the common varieties and not over 40 per cent on the fine lamb and kid gloves. In the schedule of sundries many articles, like hatters' plush, are put on the free list. The duty on cut diamonds, pearls and other precious stones is_increased. \Works of art are, am delighted to say, put back on the freo list, Clothing, ready made, and articles of wearing apparel of every description, hand- kerchiefs composed of cotton or vegetable fiber or of which cotton or other vezetable fibor is the component material of chisf vaiue, 40 per cent ad valovem. Present law, 63 per cent. Plushes, velvets, velveteens, ete, not bleached, dyed or colored, 30 per cent. Present law, 10 conts per yard and 20 per cent ad valorem, Stookings, hose and half hose made on knitting machinery or frames, shirts and arawers, valued at not more than $1.50 per dozen, 30 per cent ad valorem. Stockings, hose and half hose, velvets, ete,, including such as are commercially known as seamless, 40 per cent ad valorem. Present duty on this class rauges from 2 cents per dozen on hoisery and 20 per centum ad valorem, to $2 perdozen und 40 per centum ad valorem on shirts and drawers. Wool Schedules. The classification in’the wool schiedule proper was disnosed of in two short sections. The firsy provides that wool, hair, ete., im- proved or advanced beyond its original con* dition, as wasted by the use of machinery or the application of labor or both, shall be sub- ject to a duty of 15 per cent ad valorem. The second that on like material, valued atnot more than 35 cents per pound, the duty shall be 25 per cent; valued at over 35 cents per pound the duty shall be 30 per cent. Duties are fixed on manufactures of wool as follows: On woolen and worsted yarns, 30 per cent; valued at more than 40 cents per poun: per cent ad valorem. . On woolen or worsted clotns, shawls, knit fabrics and other manufactures, 40 per cent ad valorem. On_women’s and children's dvess goods, coat linings, bunting and goods of similar de- scription orcharacter, 40 per cent ad valorem On clouks, dolmans, juckets, ulsters or other outside garments for ladies and chil- dren’s apparel. per cent ad valorem. Present law, 4914 cents per pound and 60 per cent ad valoren. 3 Aubusson, Moquette and chenille carpets, and all carpeting of like character or cond and oriental, Berlin and other similar 35 per cent ad valorem. Present law 00 cents per square yard and 40 per cent. ‘Wilton and Tourney velvet car- pots, 30 per centad valorem; Present law 60 cents per pound and 40 per cent. Brussels —carpe: cents per Present law 44 conts per square yard. ‘The bill provides that on all rates of duties in the woolen schedules, except on carpets, there shall be a reduction of 1cent on the 100 on the first of July, 1806, and thereatter a like amennt on the first day of July, 1807, 1808, 1509 and 1900, Twine and Baggage. Plax, hackled, known as “dressed line,” 1!, cents per pound. Present law, 3 cents. Yarn; made of jute, 20 per cent ad valorem. eut law, 85 per cent. Cables, cordage and twine (except binding twine), 10 per cont ad valorem: burlaps, not exceeding sixty inches in width, containing not over forty threads to the Square inct counting warp and filling, and bags for grain made of buvlaps, 20 per cent ad valorem. Bagging for cotton, gunny cloth and all material suitable for covering cotton, 15 per cent ad valorem Collars, cuffs, shirts and_all wea parel not’especially provided for, 8 ad valorem.. All manufactures of flax, hemp, jute or other vegetable fibre, except cotton, 80 per cent ad valorem. Present law, from 2 cents per pound to 40 per cent ad valorem. Sole leather, b per cent ad valorem. ent law 10 per cent Belting leather, No change. Leathermade into shoe uppers or vamps or othor forms, 20 per cent ad yalorem. The glove schedule has bean entirely arranged and differs from the McKinloy law quite materially. Duties on pound ng ap- per cent Pres- 10 per cent ad valorem. per. Printing paper,unsized for books and news- papers, 12 per cent aa valorem. DPresent law 15 per cent + " Surfaced, couted papers and mapufactures thercof, cardboards, lithographic prints, ex- cent iliustrations when forming & part of a veriodical newspaper or in printed books, photographs, autographs and scrap albums, 25 per cont ad valorem. Present law 85 per cent, Enyelopes, 20 per cent ad valorem, ent duty, 25 per cent. Playing cards, 10 cents per package and 50 per cént ad valorem. Present duty, b0 cents per puckage. Some of the specific duties of the McKin- loy law, on earthenware and glassware, have becu changod as follows: Brick, not glazed or_ornamented or deco- rated 10 any manner, 20 per cont ad valorem. Present law, §1.25 per ton, Glazed or deco- . 40 per'cent ad valorem, Present law, 25 per cent 2 ‘Tiles, plain and _encaustic, not'glazed, or- namented, painted, enameled or decorated, 40 por cent ad valoren. Present law, 45 ver cent, China, porcelain, pavian and bisque ware, \y manner, 40 per cent ad Present law, 5 per cent ad Pres- valorem. alorom. nina, porcelain and crockery war including placque: chjarms, vases, decorated or ornamented in any manuer, 4 per cent ad valorem. Pres- ont law, 60 per cent ad valorem. Plain’ green and colored, moulded or pressed and filnt and limo glassware, includ- ing bottles, vials, demijohns and carboy: her filled or un- filled, and whether their contents be or bs not free, not specially provided in this act, 80 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 1 cent parian, bisque, carthen and imitations thereof, ornaments, toys, | 10155 cents per pound, according to size | Artl Y * 01 Glasswa All articles of glass, cut, engraved, painted, colored, stained, decorated, silvered or gildod, not including plate glass, silvered plates, 35 per cent ad valorem. Present luw, 60 per cent ad valorem. - All glass bottles, decanters and vessols or articles of gliss when graved, pamted, colored, printod, stained ciched or otherwise ornamented or dec rated, except such as have ground necks and stoppers only, ot especlally provided other cut, en: | for iu this act, # per cent ad valorew. Present law 40 por_cent ad valorem. Unpolished cylinders, crown and common window glass, not exceeding 16x14 inches squave, | cent per bouud. Present law 17 cents, Above that and not exceeding 24x30 inches tsuul‘c. 1l§ cents per pound. Preseut law 2% ~Above that sad not exceeding 24x80 inches squure, 1%, cents per pound. Present luw 8 cents per pouad. Cylinder and crown glass, polished, not exceeding 16x24 iuches square, 2!y cents per square fool. Present law. 4 cents. Above thut and not exceeding 24x80 inches square, 4 cents per square fool. Preseut law, O cents. Above that and not exceediug 24x60 inches square, 5 cents per square foot. Pres. ent law, 20 cents. Above that, 2 cents per square foot. Present iaw, 4 cents. Plited Glass. ated, rolled or rough plated glass, not including erown, cylinder or common window glass, not exceeding 10x24 inches square, threoquarters of 1 cent ver square foot. Presont law, 1 eent. Above that and not exceoding 24x30 inches square, 1 cent per square foot. Present law, 1'§ cents. All above that, 11§ cents per square foot, Pros- | ent law, 2 cents. All fluted, rolled or rough plate glass, weighing over 100 pounds per 100 square feet shall pay an additional duty on the 48 at the samo rates herein imposed, provided that all of the above plate giass, when ground, smoothed or otherwise ob. scured shall bo subject to the same rate of duty s polished glass or plates uasilvered Spectacles, oye glasses, opera glasses and other optical instruments and frames for the same, 35 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 60 per cent ad valorem L nses of gliss or pevble, wholly or partly manufactured, 35 per cent ad valorem. Present law 60 per cent ad valorem Allstained or painted zlas: stained and painted glass windows and ail mirrors, not exceoding in size 144 square inches, with or without frames or cases, and all manufactures of glass or of which glass is 4he component or chief value, not especiaily provided for in thisact, 35 per cont ad valorem. Present law 45 per cent ad valorem. The marble stone schedule shows almost general reduction. Agricultural Scheaule. ‘The agricultural schedule includes almost all farm products and provisions. Many changes have been made, specific duties being changea to ad valorem in many in- stances. All livo animals not placed on the free list by this bill are mado liable to 20 per cent ad valorem, the samo as the present law Other farm products are as follows: Buskwheat, corn or maize, corn meal, oat meal, rve flour, wheat and wheat flour, 20 per_cent, but each of the above products shall be admitted free of duty from any country which imposes no import duty on the hike products when exported from the United States. Macaroni and all similar provisions, 25 per eent ad valorem. Present law, 2 cents per pound, Anchovies, sardines and other fish packed in oil, tin boxes or any other form, 30 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 40 per cent ad valorem. Fish m cans or packages made of tin or other materials, except anchovies and sar- dines, and fish packed in any other manner not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, 25 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 30 per cent ad valorem. Grapes, 25 per, cent ad valorem. law, 60 cents per barrel. an Present, 1 Oranges, lemouns and limes in packages, 10 cents per cubic footor fractional part thereof. Raisins and old dried grapes, 1% cents per pound. Present law, 2!; cents per pound. Braudy ana Spirits. Brandy and other spirits, manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, and not specially provided for in this act, $1.80 per proof gallon. Present law §2.50. Cordials, liquors, absinthe and other spirituous beverages or bitters of all kinds containing spirits, not specially provided for in this act, $1.80 vor proof gallon. Presens law $2.50. No lower rate of amount of duties shall be levied. collected and paid on brandy, spirits and other spirituous beverages than that fixed by law for the description of first proof, but it shall be increased in proportion for uny greater strength than the strength of first proof and all imitations of brandy or spirits of wines imported by any names what- ever. st proof and all imitations of brandy or spirits of wines imported by any name what- over, shall be subject to the highest duty provided for these articles, respectively, in- tended to be represented, and in no case less than $1 per gallon. Present law, $1.50. Champagne and other sparkling wines in bottles containing not more than one quart ana less than one pint, $7 per dozen. Pres- ent Jaw, $8.75 Ale, exported, jugs, 30 cents per gallon. cents. and beer in bottles and Present law. 40 Buttons, Bre. j Buttons and button forms, pearl and shell buttons, wholly or partly manufactured, 40 per cent ad valorem. Present law 2!; cents per line and 25 per cent ad valorem. Ivol vegetable ivory, bone or horn but- tons, 25 per cent ad valorem, Presenu law, 50 per cent. Kxplosive substances, matches, friction or lucifer, 20 per cent ad valorem. Present law 10 ber cent gross. Porcussion caps, $0 per cent ad valorem. Present law 40 per cent ad valorem. Ieathers and downs of all kinds, when dressed colored or manufactured, inciuding quilts of down or other manufactures of down and also including dressed and fin- ished birds suitable for millinery ornaments, ruficial and ornamental feathers and owers or parts thereof of whatever ma- terial composed, not especially provided for in this act, 35 per cent ad valorem. Present law, crude, 10 per cent; dressed, 50 per c ent, Fans, except common palm leaf funs, 40 per cent ad valorem. Fur hats, including fur hat bodies, 30 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 55 per cent. Jowelry and precious stones: Ail articles not specially provided for in this act and commercially known as ‘‘jewelry,” and cameos in frames, 25 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 50 per cent, Precious stones of all kinks, cut but not set, 15 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 10 per cent, Pipes, and all smokers’ articles not speci- ally previded for, 50 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 70 per cent, Umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, cov- ercd with material composed wholly'or in part of silk, wool or goat hair, 45 per cent ad valorem. FPresent law, 55 per cent. Chemlcals, Olls and Paints, Many articles in the chemicals, oils and paints schedule have beon transferred to the free list, ‘The changes made in the remain- ing articles include the following: Ink and ink powder, printer's ink and all other inks not specially provided for in this act, 20 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 50 per cent. Oplum, adquis extract, for medical use, and the tincture of laudanum and all other liquid preparations of laudanum, not spe- cially provided for sn this act, 25 per cent ads| valorem. Present law, 40 per cent ad valorem, 3 Opium containing less than morphia, opium prepared for smoking, per pound. Present law, $12. But opium prepaved for smoking and other preparations of opium deposited in bonded warehouses shall not be removed therefrom without payment of duties, and such duties shall not be refunded. All medicine preparations, including prep- arations of which alcohol is a component part, or in the preparation of which alcohol s used, not specially provided for, 50 cents por pound. Provided, that no such prepara- tion shali pay less than 25 per cent ad va- lorem. Present duty the same, without the ad valorem provisions. Preparations used as applications to the hair, mouth teeth or skin, and articles of perfumery, mot specially provided for, 40 per cent ad valorem. Present law, 114 cents per pound. Faney, perfumed and all descriptions of toilet soap, 85 per cent ad valorem, Present law 15 cents per pound. A large portion of the new tabiff bill is de- voted to the administrative law. Under the McKiuley revision this was made the subject of a separate bill, but the democrats simply added the administrative provisions to the customs bill and thus incluled the whole machinery of the customs collections per cent of in one measure. Chuuges 1n Administrative Law, The changes in the administrative law are more numerous than was at first contewm- plated, and some of them are of cousiderable importance, One of those autnorizes the secretary of the treasury, at bis discretion, to permit the certification of invoices before United States consular oficers in adjoining districts from that in which the goods are manufactured or purchased. Consuls are also authorized = to refuse cer- tificates or invoices not made in strict accordapce with the regulation ‘The invoice shall also state the name of th counsular district and the name of the port or place from which the merchandise was procured, aund: when entry of mer- chandise exceeding $100 in value is made, by a statement in the form of an invoice, the collector shall require 4 bond in a penal sum, which shall be double the amount of ihe estimated duties, and in excess of §100 if the merchandise be free of duty for the pro- duction of a duly certitied invoice. The decision of the collector as to the rate and the amouut of uuties chargeable on im- ports of merchandise, including all dutiable costs and charges, And as to all feos and ex- actions of whatovar character, shall be final and _conelusi¥d against all versons in- terested thercin, unless the owner, importer, consignee or agent of such merchandise, or the person payeg such fees, charges and exactions, shi within ten days after, but not before, such ascertainment and liquidation pf dutis, as well in case of merchanfisd entered in bond for consumption, oriAvithin ten days after the payment ot such fees, charges and ex actinns, if dissatisfled with such decision, give notice in writing to the collector, stating therein distinctly and specifically and in re- spect to each entry or payment the reasons for hi bjections theretd; and if the wer- chandise is entered for consumption, pay the full amount of duties and charges to be due thereon. Process of Appeal. Upon such notice and payment the collector shall transmit such notice, together with the invoice of the merchandise, to a board of three general appraisers on duty at the port whero such merchandise was entered, or the nearest board of threo general appraisers designated to hear and determine such case, which board shall investigate tho facts and the law applicable to the case andshall transmit their report of the facts ana their recommendation: to the rate and amount of duties lawfully on said merchandise to the secr troasury, and their report signed by a majority of the board all be fnal and conclusive as to the facts involved, unless the soc- rotary shall dirett a rohearing thereof, and the secretary of the treasury shall decide the question as to the lawful amount of duties dutiable on such merchandise, which decision shall be tinal and couclusive, unless within thirty days thereafter tho importer, owner, consiznee or agent of such merchan- dise shall appeal from such decision to the United States circuit court of appeals, which court shall decide the questions of law in- volved therein and its decision shall be final and conclusive, All final judgments when in favor of the importer shall be satisfied and paid by the secretary of the treasury from the perma nent appropriation provided for in section 24 of this act. For the purpose of this soction the circuit court of the United States shall always be aeemed open. When goods are damaged in custom or in boad or in custody of the United States officials the secretary of the treasury is authorized to remit the import duties paid or due. due tary of the CHAIRMAN WILSON TALKS, He Makes a Statement Concerning New BilL WasuiNtox, Nov. 27.—Chairman Wilson has issued the following statement in regard to the bill: The democratic members of the committee on ways and means have felt, as none others could feel, the momentous responsibility resting upon them and the magnitude and dificult duty assigned them of framing a tarift bill for a nation of 70,000,000 people. The bill they were called upon to reform i: a vast and labyrintnian system of class tax- ation, the culmination of thirty years con- trol of the taxing power by a few great interests, gathering into their train a host of petty toll gatherers. It was carefully the framed to prevent, as long as possible, what® its auttior called *any monkeying with the tarif,” by which he ‘meant any successful eflort of the people 'to'undo or to lessen the bounties which its bmeticiaries were per- mitted to write thevein, in their own words and their own fighires. Tt transferred to the free list proper "and fruitful revenue articies where most ofthe taxes paid by the people were recéived by their movement and greatly increased the rates of the articles where ‘all' or most of the taxes paid by the people went into private coffers. And it was bolstered about by many defenses, chief among which are a swept and garnished treasu d salscale of permanent; expendituces. Such are the condivious that confronted us at the threshold of our,workl ‘The committeé has welcomed information and counsel ' from every trustworthy source, and while 1t does not expecti1ts bill to escape just criticism in all particulars, it presents it to the country as vhe result of patient, anxious thought, and of an honest desive to discharge its duty purged of all taint of local and personal Tavoritism or prejudice. Its wain features are two: 1. The adoption, wherever it seemed practicable, of ad valorem instead of specific duties. 2. The frecing from taxes of those great materials of industry that lie at the base of production, Reasons Against Specitic Duties. Specific rates of duty are objectionable for these reasons: ‘They frequently conceal a rate of taxation oo cnormons to be sub- mitted to if exposed in in ad valorem terms, as the duty of 8 cents per 100 pounds on aalt in bulk, which amounts to over 80 per cent on a common necessity of life. They always bear neavily on the common ar- ticle used by the masses and slightly upon the expensive articlo consumed by the rich as a tax of 0 on all the houses would be little on the great man and very high on the humble home, And contrary to commou belief, specific duties lead to greater frauds in administration, for the counting and weighing at the customs houses are done by the cheapest and most covrupt labor, while ad valorem ratos are assessed by the best paid and most responsible appraiser: The ad valorem system has worked well in practico and is essentially the faivest sys- tem, because itisa tax upon the actual value of an article and was declared by Mr. Clay himself to be in theory and according to every sound principle of justice entitled to the preferento and to have been vindi- cated by long trial, Why Raw Materlaly Are Free. The boldest innovation of the bill is its large free list of the raw materials. Taxes upon production . are double wrongs. They gather and accumulato on the consumers of the finisher's pro- duct. They hurt lavor by narvowing the market for what it produces. Coal and iron are the foundations of modern produc- tions. Material progress is measured by the amount of their consumption, No other country can supply them as abundantly or eaply as we cat. No possible competition can interfere with onr own producers, a fow miles 1n the interior of the country. Iemote- ness from the sources of supply is in itself enougin disadvantage to any scction of the country without further burdens in tariff taxes. Untaxed ores, lumber and other things will also immensely stimulate pro- duction in certain parts of our country. The thin edge of Américan manufacturves has entered every country, Witn releases from taxes on their juaterials thereis no limit to the growsi 0f, our forcign trade. ‘This will more thag compensate producers of raw material, “Wno, tariff or no tariff, control all the interior of the country, from any aporebended lg3g 04 markots anywhere along tho seaboard. « Tts incalculable qdvAntage to labor is ap- parent. In m-eryjmwuu« of manufacture we can produce instx Lo nine months enough for our homa markek, 1, WVe can get rid of our surplus only by fopeignirade. As long as We have Laxes on e materials of industry, we cannot build ug &hat trade. Hoense the other alternative, fgusip Lo keep down pro- duction to the howgmarket The workingman can see whether his in- terests are with s system ihat represses production and robs blw of ewployment or with a system thalgives natural and healthy play to production, un}l emancipates indus- tries from trusts ald fike combinations of capital. s Chief Chwages Specified. As to the details of the bill, I will briefly capitulate the salient changes of several schedules. In the chemistry schedule, we have trans- ferred tothe free Hsl, quitea number of articles used in manufacturiog © the most important ingredients used in the manufacture of sulphuric acid. The [duty is reduced from w 85 cents ser gallon, and the duty on inseed which was revised to 35 cents by the conference committee on the MeKioley bill after each hquse had openly voted for a lower duty, We put at 15 cents u gallon. Pig lead is reduced from 2 to 1 cent & pound, Laad paints are conspicuously redyced The McKinley bill iucreased the duty on opium prepared for smoking to 812 a pound in the vain hope of lessouing its lwporta- tion. The cusioms house officers on the Pacific coast declare that this increase of duty has simply placed in the hauds of smugglers the bringing in of opium 10 the demoralization of thecusioms service .and a swollen and colos-, ey s BEEH] TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 189 and the loss of over #00,000 revenue. The duty proposed is believed to be collectable, and will put the trafic under government control and supervision. In the pottery schodule reductions are made. Plain white ware is decreased from the hieh schedule in which it mysteriousl crowded itself. Decorated ware is reduced from 00 to 45 per cont. In common window gla: binations have kept up prices to_consumers under tho scale of duties averaging 100 per cent, a reduction of more than one-half has been made in all the larger sizes. There is no doubt that these rates will permit a very heavy growth of the indusiry here. In plate glass reductions are made, the largest size from 50 cents to 30 cents per square foot, on silvered from 60 to 35 cents. Roductions in Iron and Steel, In the iron and steel schedulo we begin with free ore. The discovery of the immense depositsof Bessemer ores in the lake regions and of foundry ores in Alabama has rapidly swept us to the leadership of the world in the production of iron and steel and brought rat hand an undisputed supremacy in great field of manufactures. The use of steam shov reduces the cost of mining to a pomt whoere the wages, paid “natural labor' _are irralovant, Pig ifon_we produce for #6.73 per ton. which is from 50 to %0 per cent to a uniform duty of 22 per wont, & rate somewhat higher in proportion than the rest of the schiedule because of the cheap froight rate on foreign pig, It being & favor- ite freight on westward voyages. Steel rails we reduce from $13.44 per ton now, or 74 per cent, to 2 per cent. As the pool which has kept up prices so mai in this country seems now disorganiz other proaucers will soon need protection, more dgainst Mr. Carnerie av Pittsburg and Mr. Stirling at Chicago than against foroign vroduc The residue of tho schedule varies from 2 to 30 per cent, Beams and girders are 3 per cent because of the waste of cutting beams and the va- riety of lengths and also the frequent ne- cessity of changing the roils in making beams and girders because of the irregular quantities and lengths and sizes of orders. “T'in plates are reducod to 40 por cont, u lit- tle more than one-half,of the McKinley rate. This i8 4 revenue duty, and at the samo time enough to permit any existing milis to live and flourish. Cheaper grades of pocket cutlery are 3 cont,higher grades 45 per cent. Table cutlery is 35 per cent. Those are very:substantial reductions from presout rates which, being specific, reach in some grades of pocket tlery as high as 90 per cent, but with the elease of taxes on raw material, especially on pearl and ivory for handles, seem ample. Both copper ores and pig copper are made free, wo being large exporters of the latte and the duty serving only to enable the pr ducer to sell higher to our people than to foreignors. Nickle is free. Lead ore has a small duty of 15 per cent. and pig lead 1s 1 cent a pound. Silver lead ores are restored to the free list, Unmanufactured lumber is free. Manu- factured 18 put at 25 por cent, with a proviso that if there are any export duties or charges on foreign lumber, it shall be ad- mitted only at the rates now existing. Sugar Was a Hard One. Sugar has been a difficult subject to deal with. Raw sugar was transferred to the free list by the McKinley bill because nearly all the taxes paid on it went to tho pub- lic treasury. A strong desive amougst the members , of the committee was to put an ad valorem duty of 20 or 25 per cent on 1t and to abolish the bounty at once. After much consideration, it was de- cided to reduce to one half the duty on re- fined sugarsand to repeal the bounty one- Ccightn each year, leaving raw sugar tuxed s at prosent. in the tobacco schedule those ral were sought which would bring most revenue. The present taxes of $2.75 per pound on wrappers or leaf have blotted out many small estublishments and actually impaired revenue. We make the rates $1 and $175 per pound on wrapper leaf and 85 cents and 50 cents per pound on filler tobacco, un- stemmed and stemmed in each. Manu- factures of tobacco are put at 40 cents. Cigars aee reduced from $4.50 per pound aud 25 par cent ad valorem to $ per pound and 25 per cent. It is believed to be the most productive revenue rate and is higher than the law of 1863, Live animals are put at 20 ver cent. Barley is reduced from #0 cents per bushel to 20 per cent. which is about 12 cents. Intornal Revenue Figus From the annual report of the commissioner of internal revenue made public last night, it is found that Nebraskans during the last 1 year paid in tax on oleomargarine con- sumed $05,005; that thereare i the state one oleo factory. ten wholesalers and fifty-five vetailers, “Towa paid 3,85 tax and one manufacturer and twenty-nine oleo deale Nobraska nas fifty-five tobacco factories and thoy manufactured during the year 32,000 pounds of tobaceo and 4,542,000 cigars. “The above is a ramd summary of the chief changes made by the proposed ~bill and will give a satisfactory resume, it 1s believead, of its general structure. 1t is estimated that it will reduce revenues on_the basis of importations of 1802 hout £50,000,000 and something more on the ba , with an immensely larger decrease burdens to the American people. The adminisc law is repealed with a few amendments suggested by the experience of its operation. ‘Lhat was chiefly preparea by Mr. Hewitt when he was 1" congress and the chang proposed in our bill are to make it mo offective, while, at the same time, softening the features added by the MeKinley bill that would treat the business of importing as an outlawry not entitled to the protection of the governinent. where close (5m- the LOUAL TIMENT. Opinions of Omahans on the Subject of arir Rovision. Y W. V. Morse—1 huve not seen the contents of the bill, although [ was aware that such a measure had been proposed. We do not want a change, as we have always had pros- perity under a protective tariff. Itis my idea that if the democratic congress would adopt a resolution saying that the tariff would not be disturbed for three years that prosperity would return to the country in- side of twenty-four hours. It is this unse tled state and agitation of change that has taken commercial prosperity from us. There is nosuch thing as free trade and cannot be. Of course last year they talked that they wanted free trade and the people, not knowing whut it was and supposing that free trado really meant froe trade, voted for it It s all a humbug. This country demanas $600,000,000 annually to conduct its affairs, and the amount must be derived from revenue “There is no reason why we should not haye a system of protective tariff continued, as we experienced prosperity all ulong under 1t and there was no business depression. I am in- formed that there was ouly a differenc of 4 mills batween the Mills an1 McKiuley bills, which represented the ideas of the followers of each. Major McKinley's speech down at Boston last week represents my views upon this matter thoroughly. What we wantis a business tariff, one that will give us pros- perity, and not one that is a political measure and intended to tear down. It is simply this that if we had manufactured in this coun- try during 1592 $100,000,000 tess of goods than we did, that we would have been compelied to import that amoun, aud if, in 1803, we had manufactured $100,000.000 move, as we would had there not been a change of management in the affairs of the nation, we would have stopped the flow of from $30,000,000 to $00,- 000,000 in gold to Europe aud which started the financisl panic, Thomas Kilpatrick was suffering from a severe attack of the grij, but declared him self well enough to signify bis unqualifiea approbation of the new tariff bill. I only hope,” said he “that the new bill will be passed without delay, 8o that there will be all the time possible lefu for people to prepare themselves for the change before it takes effect. I highly approve of that sec- tion of the bili that_provides for removing the tariff on linens. We produce but little of that article in this country, and when linen is put on the free list it will give the people & useful arucle of clothing at a con- siderably reduced expense. 1 am also glad to see wool on the free list, for but few people realize how heavily that article is taxed I think that it is & wise pro vision to let in iron ore free of augy, as our iron production is in morthern Michigan, where there is water communication with the east and with this advantage our iron mines should be able to compete with those of any other country. One of the Lest fea. tures of the Wilson bill in my judgment 1s the fact that it imposes an ad valorem instead of a specific duty. ‘I'he specific duty fell on —— the cheapor arades of goods; whilo the othoer is moro equitable.” Charles H. Brown had not read tho new Wil thoroughly enough to discuas it in detail, but wassatisfiod to say that it met with his approval. Ho was in favor of the whole doctrine of tariff reform as embodied in the democratic platform and favored the Wilson billasa step in the right direction. Ho thought that all the nacessaries of life should be placed on tho freo list and if the tariff was not then sufficient to serve the pur- poses of the government, monoy should bo raised in some other way. PRESSING TH Demoonratle Members of . Means Com: the Ways and itteo on the Wil Wasnisaroy, Nov, 27, —~The meeting of the ways and means committee was very brief. All the democratic members were on hand, but the only republican members present were Reed, Burrows, Hopkins, Payne and Dalzell Immediately after the roll call Chairman Wilson spread the bill before the committee and the clerk instantly thereafte supplied it to the members of the press. Tho only advance copy furnished was given to the white bouse messenger a half hour previous for transmission to the president No business whatever was transacted by the committee. Tho republican members upplicd with copies of the bill. A fow remarks were made and the com mittee adjourned togive time to the minorit, to examine the measure. Most of the republican members declined 10 express any opinion on tho bill until thoy should have an opportunity to examing it in detail Representative Bryan of Nebraska, a dom- ocratic member, gave out the following statement in regard to the bill: “Iam very much pleased with the tariff bill; in tact 1t 80 nearly carries out th&@ platform upon which 1 was elected in 1860 that I could not well be dissatisfied with 1t. 1 wrote tho tariff plaok for that platform and went into the details more than is usual.” Representative Tarsnoy of Missouri, one of the democratic members of the ways and means committee, expressed himself as fol- lows: *I think the bill is a substantial com- pliance with the demands of the people and the pledges of the demoeratic party. 1ts v form lies in the fast that it gives to our manufacturers many of the raw materials sent to the manutactories without duty and enables us to meet the substantial reductions in the duty on manufactured products. 1t changes the old system of taxing necessities high and luxuries low and puts luxuries at the high rates and necessities at the low rates. Itis absolutely free from sectional ism and favoritism. Every industry and every section is treated with fairness. No duty has been reduced so low as to soriously intérfere with the wholesome aevelopment of our manufacturers, giving no occasion for the closing of a singlo indusiry.” ¥ Tho following statement was made by Hon. Clirton R. Breckinridge of Arkansas, one of the members of the ways and means committee: *‘The new tariff "bill it is pro- posed shall go into effect on the Ist day of March, In most schedules there isa very substantial reduction from the present law. A genoral average cannot be precisely stated until the elaborate tables which are being prepared aro completed. Some #50.- 000,000 of objectionable taxes will be taken off, and of this amount about $13,000,000 ver- | taining to raw materials 1s placed on the free Tom Reed Spenks. Speaker Tom Reed, n member of the and means committoe. said tonight: “Of course it is very easy for the gentlemen who prepared the bill to give their views sinco they have been busily engaged in the | work for a number of weeks, while the first the minority heard of the bill was at 1l o'clock today. The southern democracy have taken ‘the lion's share of the commit- tee; they have done this for a purpose, for while the northern democrats are represented on the committee they rep- resented in such u way that the south holds astrange and very unfortunate predomina- tion. As theirindustrial status is very much different from the average of the whole coun- try, it nccessarily follows, and absolutely, that the bill is as bad as could be reasonably imagined. This maynot be true with regard to every 1tem, but it is certainly true with regird 1o the most important matters in the bill.” Mr. McMillin of Tennessee, one of the st prominent members of the committee, said: “The democratic party has fought the fight of tariff reform for a quarter of a cen- tury, often baffled, often defeated: iv has arter its defeat came nobly forward, undis- by political danger and renewed the ‘e promise of univer pros- perity which was made by the aathors of the McKinley bill on its adoption has not been fulfilled and under it'depression and panic reigned. | The present bill has been prepared with all the care we could give it. It has been framed to raise revenve for the support of the government instead ofdndividuals. F wool is given the munufacturer and a heavy cut made in woolen goods. It can be truly suid that all the duty taken from wool has gone to the consumer of woolen goods and even more." Another Republican Spo: Mr. Hopkins of [llinois, a republican mem- ber of the committee, said: *“The bill is in such_a form that 1t is impossible to give a detailed and accurate statement in vegard to its workings. Irom the investigation I have had vime to give it, I can say that the most _radical changes have been ‘made, ap- proaching to more nearly free wade than any previous bill that ‘has ever been pre- sented to congress. 1t will reduce the rev- enues from 1mports for 1863 about $60,000,000. y increased the free list, and made radical changes, If the bill is carried out in the form in which it is presented to the members of the ways and means com- mittee it will close down the great majority of the woolen mills which have been in operation under existing laws, and throw out of employment the men, women and children who have receivea employment at remunerative wages. The bill will destroy the sugar industry in this country. Under | the McKinley law a bounty of 2 centsa | pound was @iven to the sugar beet and ovher sugar producers, and under that system a splendid beet sugar industry has been started in Kunsas, Nebraska and other states. The farmers m those states will have to go back to raising corn and wheat. This bill serves notice on them [ that the democrats prefer the foreign pro duct. The 0,000,000 annualy that was sent abrond for tin plates before the advent of the McKinley law, will again be paiu to the foreigners and the laborers of thut industry in Wales and_other foreign tin producinit countries, und that amount of money will be aken out of circulation in this country, aud the laborers who, under the existing ‘condi- tions, would bo given employment at remun erative wages will have to'walk the streots without employwent, begging for bread Me Dalzeil's Opinle M. Dalzeli of Pennsylvania, a republican member of the committee, suid 1t would by impossible for him to express any opinion b in o general way. As the effect of the bill, he said, would be to reduce tho rev cnue about $30,000,000 per annum he thought the bill should be calied & *‘taviff vill only for revenue. Ho said the free list was u wonder, and continued: “The bill cannot prove otherwise than a se blow at our supremacy as o menufacturing nation. The fact is it ust be necessarily fatal upon the cause of labor. Tnis means i long step back ward to the laboring man. [ amat a 1oss to know how any sincerely patriotic American can wish forits passage.” L Secretary Herbert expressed himself as being much pleased with the measure, nE BiLL fight. MKINLEY ON Some of the Objections Urged Agalust it CLEVELAN Governor McKinley arrived in Cleveland this evening, He was asked his opinion of the Wilson tariff bill, He said he had not read "the abstract of the measure and had ouly glanced through Mr. Wilson's review of it. He said the bill pro- | posed very sweening reductions in the exist- ing taviff. It was such a measure as he had expected, yet a little more sweeping thau he had anticipated. It was, however, in_ line with the expressed determination of the democracy to_ignore the business interests and the working people of the country I'he objectionable feature of the bill, Mr. McKinley said, was the substitution of ad valorem for speeific duties, That aloue ought to defeat the eutire measure.. The ad Valorem system, hie said, rests upon the for- eign valuation, which is hard to determine, and it puts & premivm upon under-valuation frauds. All the leading nations of the world, ho declared. had abandoned the ad valorem tem, for the reason that the valuation 18 made thousands of miles from the port of entry and never can be devended upon He quoted the late Secrotary Manning as having saia that false invoices, under valua tions and like dishonesty as inheront in the ad valorem system, and ho was cortain that such frauds would becomo more prevalont under it He also quoted Henry: Clay as saying that If ho could fix the value he did not care what the ad valorem duty was. Governor McKinley said that the new bill would not pass the protection wing of the democratic party, but ho would not ventura a prediction as to'its chance of passage in the house. st L INTRUDE ITSKLF, VER WiL " Proposal to Tax Importations to e Made During the Tariff Debate, Wasnixaros, Nov. Those who have observed the dificulty of keoping the silver question in the background will not be sur. prised to leara that this subject is destined to assert its right to a hearing in connection with the tariff. It will como up in the shave of a proposition to put a duty upon silver im portations, not in the house, but m tho senate, if tho plans of those who have the matter in hand do not miscarry The effort to secure this innovation will be made in connection with the metal schedule and it will be coupled with the item concorning lead and silver lead ore, The purpose of this measurc is twofold, 1t m vrepare for the free colnage of the Awmeri- can product of silver and 1t is_oxpocted to provent the counterfeiting of the American dollar in other countries and the sending of counterfeit coins to the Unitod States. WORKING NIGHT AND DAY, Cleveland Making Time in the Preparation . of His Mossage. Wasningroy, Nov. 27.—The president message is not half finishod and he is deny. ing himself to all callers to work upon it. He does not come into his ofice except on cabinet~days, Tuesdays and Fridays, and works late into the night. Herewfore, Prosident Cleveland has usually allowed himself six weeks to work on his message. It is supposed that he has deferred the work on it this year to allow time for some development in the Hawaiian matter. The time for congress to convene is S0 near that it is no longer possible. It is, therefore, thought probable that the Hawajian matter will be treated later m a special messago. Good for Decensed Attornoys WasmiNaron, Nov. 2.—A caso of consid- erable importance to the estates of deceased attorneys has beon decided by Assistant Sec- retary of tho Interior iReynolds on an appeal from the action of the pension bureau. Tho rule provides that whon an attorney dies, loaving pending clnims where he was on titled to recognition, his personal property will mot be recogaized to complete such claims, Recognized by the State Department, Wasmyatoy, Nov. 27.—Tho State depart- ment has recognizod temporarily Don Luis Munzie, as acting consul of Spain at Balti- more, 10 place of Don Carlos Diaz, who ro. cently committed suicide. e iy ON TRIAL FUOR SMUGGLING. Oplum Casos Oponed at Fortland and Ta teresting Dove pected. Poxtrasn, Ore., he trials of twenty persons indicted forsmuggling be in the United States district court today. The trials are of unusual interest owing to the social and political prominence of some of the defendants, among thom being James Latan, ex-collector of cus- toms, and C. J. Mulkey, ex-special agent of the department. In addition to its regularly appolnted prosecutors, the government is vepresented by Hon. 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