| Show PHILIPPINE TARIFF POLICY r ls to Sot Up Status Quo Ante Anto Di Diamond I amond Rings Case Caso Decision n nI nI I I BILL FAVORA L 1 to Italic ll T SU be Ample BUI Certain Washington WI Dee Dec 13 lyne of ot the tho committee on ways was and today presented tho if port on tho Philippine tariff tarl bill WI II I nays YS bill ID designed to raise rise revenue for tor tho government and for or the tho of Qt th tho Philippine archipelago It It Is intended to restore the tho status which existed prior to the tho late Into decision ol tho Supreme Court In tho diamond rings case Prior to that decision the tho government had been collecting duties on goods coming Into tho th United State goots the archipelago o at tin the Mine uno rates us I I those provided In out our tariff bril laws In W t r like articles Imported fruh reign foreign to countries The he court holds that tho Philippine archipelago In 11 not a foreign country and uni tho general genral tl I law docs not apply Ibis bis bill bi extends tho rate now existing Imports from foreign countries to brought In from tho Philip Philippine pine islands In the thc Philippine archipelago tho States Philippine commission V a I tariff act after much care and study Their object t ban hal been be and ond andis ondIs is to raise revenue to a In the Philippines to i provide Imply for tor tho education of ot the to open up tho highways of ot commerce both foreign and domestic and ond to provide ample amillo police force torce for tor forthe the preservation of or order Theao Thes dif different ferent forms torms of q tariff tarl In force torce there avo produced produce a 1 surplus of ot revenue after atter paying tha expenses es of ot tho gov government This bill bi proposes In the first frt section to make this Philippine tariff a put of u tho statutes of 0 tho United States The necessity for tor a continuance of revenue which shall bo both ample and certain Is 18 Imperative In If I we continue the th police and constabulary system which has haB boen Inaugurated and which 1 il doing so much to restore and ant con conservo conI servo I ne order In tho Islands It I will wi call for tor a I largo lago In appropriations We have enrolled school chil children chi dren in tho public Of Ot this nUJ er r more than one half are without any school house accommodations It I Is la necessary 1 that we build uld suitable houses at once Ten thousand were at last accounts enrolled for tor night schools and wo lre told that this number has Increased probably to at least lenat 35 oeo These people learn leorn our and better their condition must IU t be he amply provided for tor Four thousand teachers have havo been employed nearly I arly all al of ot them recently ond their must be le paid This wor ot education not be o crippled even e en for tor a n short time lle for tor lack Ink of 0 funds Our government has his gone to work systematically through the 1010 commission for tor the Improvement of ot the harbor nt at Manila They The havo let the t af after n ter t a I public advertisement a nt and competitive bids to the lowest bidder bilder This contract n tract calls for tor the expenditure of ot three thre millions milon of ot dollars In the near fu tu future ture Hoods are b constructed and tur lio h building of ot In this tropical country Is expensive a Those The e are but a n afew few tew of 0 the many lems ot expenditures Which are lre AH AU thes o ex expenditures arc preparing the way for a I reduction of or and In the end will wi prove proe of or direct t benefit to the tax taxpayers ta payers of ot the States Th The bill bil for tor lion ton of 0 tonnage taxes on ve ply plyIng InK Ing between bot tho ports of ot the tho United States and the tho Philippine archipelago It I further provides that vessels not of ot the United States may IR ply between theBo ports notwithstanding our coast coastwise wise navigation laws Im until the frt of January 1005 It I Is 18 believed theRo Islands may ma safely come com under Ind r tho operation of at our present nt statutes and vessels only of or th tM United States be In with them employed our OUI commerce At present our own people who ship shil Roods to Islands are handicapped by Y the Internal revenue tax and nr duties paid upon u on foreign r goods goot imported 1 hero US In the manufacture of or 1 pent to I the Philippines sixth of ot the he bill Is clause proposed bi designed to remedy tIlls section provides povl j that all tho th duties an taxes collected under the act nt not be covered Into the gen general eral fund of ot tho treasury of ot the United States State but paid Into o the of ot tho th Philippine Islands to be used and ex ox expended the use and benefit of ot these Islands The object of or the tho bill bi IB I to meet mee a 1 pressing emergency practically ef er efficiently Wo present the tho tariff act of ot the commission na n the best hest that can cn be devised In the tho limited time left leC for tor us to act |
