Abstract

A Debate On The Tariff

This article focuses on recent developments, as per the discussion held in the U.S. Senate, regarding the new Tariff Bill with respect to prices of various imported commodities. One unfortunate result of the refusal of daily papers to report proceedings of Congress in full is that the people has little or no idea of what its representatives are doing. In the newspaper, "Globe," someone can found a perfect sample of the way in which artificial stimuli for native industry are constructed. and put into force. Thirty-three gentlemen took part in it, and the subject was hemp and its substitutes, jute and other vegetable fibres, gunny-bags, gunny-cloth and cotton bagging. The most interesting part of the discussion was that on "jute butts," however. Jute butts is the lower part of the bark of the jute-tree, and it comes largely from Calcutta, India. The committee recommend that it be taxed $10 a ton.