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Show I r 01 18 EARNE ST M'MtfiiyMiiiNrstfWiys rt Metis CmmUiU Vfetti Attack Fr fmi Tariff' CkMgc ,, .& IECUIE LANK B'MB TO SUFFER -i EUlkv Some' A Jjwitwnt Needed, Need-ed, But Point lFroperity o!Recewf! Tears r Washington, April 20. That ad valorem dtittat uch as proposed pro-posed in the Democratic tariff bill are "a deluitWand a share;" that the mdioil tliriff revision submitted by'the JDemocrats is inexcusable and 'uncalled for, andthat an accounting will come for 4ts enactment; 'jilto law, are (Wintentibns'Xlfs thfeV Republican members -of thl wijjte and means committee in -a "mniority report lobe presented ttne house tomorrow. to-morrow. ;, ' "There is-i no exeuse ior the radical 'change ' in J bur revenue system proposed 1 iy this ' Democratic Demo-cratic bill.'femyithe report, which is signed br Representatives Representa-tives Payne, JPerdiw, Gardner, Moore; Gre d Anderson. , power, Dotyby'brnot er"a majority o the Aiwiean people, but by a division in tke ranks of the majority on other questions than than ot protection. The administration has we power to enact his legislation.1 The accounting ac-counting for the ilbuee of that power will 'come lafcr." The report contends that the bill has caused- intense and widespread . alarm in business circles." N f w- f Asserting that the Democratic bill "seems to meet' with universal uni-versal approval onjthe other side of the Atlantic," the report declares de-clares that the protective feature has been entirely eliminated in the framing of the bill. "It is easily apparent," the report adds, "that' hiany of the duties have been placed on articles used by our manufacturers manufactur-ers and imported wholly from abroad, as a 'tax on manufacturers;' manufac-turers;' that many duties have been lowered so that they are much, less than the difference in the cost of labor at home and abroad; that many articles now payingrvery low rates of duty have been put on the free list, while the comparative cost of production here and abroad is such that it will; be imposible for business to continue without with-out bringing down our scale of wages to the level of the rate paid abroad. In many 'cases articles are put on the free lists, while a protectiye. duty is laid upon the material used in their manufacture." - ' t The elimination from the Democratic Bill of the maximum and minimum feature of the present law i deplored by the Republicans, ;who ciaim that through this provision great tariff concessions and regulations were procured and much added to the 'export trade of the country. ( |