Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 March 1883 — Bits of The Tariff and Revenue. [ARTICLE]

Bits of The Tariff and Revenue.

Representative Carlisle, the most prominent candidate for speaker, next session, says the tariff bill is a hodge-podge, and that the Forty-eighth Congress will go over the work again. A tobacco dealer gives it as his opinion that the rebate clause of the revenue bill will cost the government $3,000,000 o $4,000,000 on tobacco aid cigars alone. The rebate is on whole packages, and dis-

thUflgtrkiiqfes banks and private bankers from a tax wk»DKoaanav«Rge,amountedtGsl f osO,feWflhotKl -c vieoM bux wax A great amount of additional, labor sfe thrown upon the Secretary of the Treasury by the passage Of the bill, as he must define the law in ev®fy particular. 40n one point alone which will be* sprung ttb Secretary will have to make a * ruling, and others of equal importance may t develop. . \ . Tutsburg iron masters tariff havebeen unanimous in tirar deb* larations that under the law M of wages of all classes of workmen MR be necessary. If this is presisted in it Wm TO? probably result in a general. a large number of employes asserted that any attempt to reduce wages will be stubbornly resisted. Bradford ers are disappointed over the newlpw; while Chicago operators say it is mope injurious to iron interests than any legislation within half a century, aad that the only means of keeping the mills open will be by a sweeping reduction in wages And putting them at suqh ia point that laborers, in turn, must have cheaper board. Poles Bros.* mill at Pottstown* Pa., which was stopped tome weeks ago* on account of uncertainty about the tariff* started Monday, but the men struck after one heat, on account of a notice that wages would be reduced. r - ■ n', : • 1 ’ .1 j Al m it