Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — TIN PLATE. [ARTICLE]

TIN PLATE.

The New Tariff in Effect July 1. Mountains of Cases of th* Metal Brooch! in to Avoid the Higher Chargee. A special from New York san: The clause In the McKinley tariff bill which affects tin plate went into effect at mid* night June 30. On the 30th there was a rush by importers to get all the plate on the wharves and in bond on which the duty was not paid through the custom house before the close of' business in order to escape the additional tax Imposed on that article under the law. Chief Clerk of Customs Couch said this morning that he had no figures at hand to judge even approximately of the amount of tin plate in bond or which has arrived in this country within the past few days, but the number of cases of tin whien were entered to-day and yesterday was enormous. From the mountains of cases of tin plate on the European steamship docks it would seem that the vessels had discarded all other freight on the other side and sailed for this port with full cargoes of tin. The Servia, Runic, Wyoming, Ethiopia, Galileo and Spain brought more than 200,000 cases of the metal yesterday, aud the same number of cases was expected to-day. Many of the vessels sailed from across the water a day ahead of schedule time. The importers made it an object for the steamship companies to make tin plate a preferred cargoThe St. James Gazette takes a gloomy view of the future of the tin plate industry in The Gazette says that the tin-plate lockout is the beginning of the decline of a great British industry! and that the skilled workingmen will seek and find remunerative employment in America.