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Chipman's Objections

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Parent Issue
Day
18
Month
May
Year
1888
Copyright
Public Domain
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Congressman Chipman has prepared a list af amendments to tho tariff bill before the house whieh is nearly as long as the Mills bill itself. Ho says ho is neither a protectionist nor a free trader. In his written document sent to the ways and mcans comniittee he said : The Mills bill cither by great roductions or absolute repeal of dutjes affecta every staplo of the state of Michigan, viz : copper, wool, iron, lumber and salt. As to the policy of this aetion I have only this to say, that I am willing to vote for the ohanges il corresponding benefits can be obtained, and I recognize a benefit to the entire country as a proper reason for a change. I do not think a single state should be selected as the theatre for tariff reform. Mr. Chipman therefore moves to strike the f ollowing articles f rom tho free list : Fish, glue or isinglass, bone black, brick, meats, game, poultry, inilk, pulp. Mr. Chipman also wants the duty of 10 cents per gullen removed f rom linseed oil, or flaxsced and common window glass. He asks that "gilling twine" be put on the free list. He wants the duty on lithographic materiala flxed at 35 per cent ad valorem, and that there shall be a rebate of the tax on alcohol uscd in the arts and for medicinal purposes, and that all taxes on druggists as dealers be repealed. He also asks that the tax now levied on manufactures of fine cut ohewing tobáceo and on smoking tobáceo be reduced ono-half. Judge Chipman concludes his communication as follows: 1 beg to add that the articles and industries enumerated above are only small parta of the articles and industries of my district afEocted by the bill. I feel that the free list at least must bc increased in the direction intimated in order to make the bill at all palatable to my constituents. Members of the Michigan delegation are in some consternation over the attitude of Chipman and Tarsney, and fear that they will have trouble in passing the Mills bill,

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Ann Arbor Democrat