Blankets, hats of wool and flannels for underwear, 22c. & 35 p.c. 30 p.c. 30 p.c. 50 p.c. L.-Silks and Silk Goods. Silks partially manufactured, per lb........ 50c. 20 p.c. buttons.... Spun silks, in skeins, cops, warps, or on beams.... 35 p.c. 30 p.c. 50 p.c. 45 p.c. 60 p.c. 50 p.c. Articles of silk lace...... All manufactures of silk or of which silk is the component material of chief value.............. 50 p.c. 45 p.c. Mechanically ground wood pulp, per ton, dry weight Printing paper, sized or glued, suitable only for 20 p.c. 15 p.c. 25c. 20 p.c. Paper envelopes, per M.. Writing paper, drawing paper and all other paper.. 25 p.c. 20 p.c. 25 p.c. 20 p.c. Buttons of ivory, vegetable ivory, glass, bone and Dolls (this paragraph not to take effect until Jan 35 p.c. 25 p.c. 10c. 20 p.c. Matches, per gross Strings for musical instruments, if catgut.... Free 25 p.c. Strings for musical instruments, if metal........ 45 p.c. 25 p.c. Feathers and downs of all kinds, when dressed, Haircloth, known as "crinoline cloth," pr. sq. yd.. Sc. 55 p.c. 40 p.c. Jewelry Uncut precious stones of all kinds................ All articles commercially known as "jewelry".. 50 p.c. Pipes and all smokers' articles...... Photographic dry plates or films.................... Gloves, ladies' or children's, "glace" finish, kid, $2.25 45 p.c. 35 p.c, 60 p.c. 25 p.c. 70 p.c. 50 p.c. All common tobacco pipes made wholly of clay, valued at no more than 50c. per gross, per gross 15c. 10 p.c. 55 p.c. Tow of flax or hemp, per lb..... Umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, covered with material composed wholly or in part of silk or alpaca........ Sticks for umbrellas, parasols and sunshades, plain 35 p.c. FREE LIST. 1 6-10c. Free 7-10c. Free Jute and hemp bagging, per square yard....... periodicals devoted to original scientific re- Cabbages, each...... Copper ores, per lb.......................... Flax straw, per ton.... Flax, not packed, per lb.... Hemp, not hackled, per ton.. $25 Free Cod oil, foreign fisheries, per gal. Milk, fresh, per gal.. Petroleum, crude........ Refined........ 20 p.c. Free Paintings in oil or water colors, and statuary. 15 p.c. Free 20 p.c. Free Artists' proofs of etchings and engravings.. Plows, tooth and disk harrows, harvesters, reapers, 25 p.c. Free Burr stones.. Sulphuric acid, per lb.. Paving posts, railroad ties, telephone and telegraph poles, all of cedar... Timber, hewn and sawed, and timber used for spars Timber, squared or sided, per cubic foot.... .......... Salt in bags or other packages, per 100 lbs......... 12c. Free 8c. Free 15 p.c. Free c. Free 20 p.c. Free 10 p.c. Free Free c. Hubs for wheels, posts, last blocks, wagon blocks, All other shingles, per 1,000..... 30 p.c. Free Staves of wood of all kinds, wood unmanufactured 10 p.c. Free Veneers, unmanufactured... 20 p.c. Free Wool. Class 1.-Wools of the merino blood, immediate Class 3.-Donskoi, native South American, Cor- When valued at more than 13 cents per lb. 50 p.c. Views and Opinions of Leading Statesmen upon the Great Issues of the Campaign. THE GOLD RESERVE AND THE FINANCIAL DIFFICULTY. MR. Speech Delivered in the United States Senate, Jan. 3, 1896, BY HON. JOHN SHERMAN, OF OHIO. R. PRESIDENT: In his annual message to Congress the President confined himself to two important subjects, one our foreign relations and the other the condition of our national finances. He followed it by another message on the application of the Monroe Doctrine to the controversy between Great Britain and Venezuela. While Congress has heartily, perhaps too hastily, but with entire unanimity, supported him in maintaining the interests and honor of our country in the field of diplomacy, it has not and will not approve his recommendations on the more important subject of our financial policy and especially of our currency. He has mistaken the cause of our present financial condition in attributing it to the demand for gold for United States notes instead of to the deficiency of revenue caused by the legislation of the last Congress. He places the effect before the cause. He proposes as a remedy the conversion of the United States notes and the Treasury notes into interest-bearing bonds, thus increasing the interest-bearing debt nearly $500,000,000. He proposes a line of public policy that will produce a sharp contraction of our currency, add greatly to the burden of existing debts, and arrest the progress of almost every American industry which now competes with foreign productions. The President is supported in these views by Mr. Carlisle, his able Secretary of the Treasury, in his report to Congress. It is with diffidence I undertake to controvert their opinions; but my convictions are so strong that they are in error that I hope the strength of the facts I will submit to the Senate will convince it that the true line of public policy is to supply the Government with ample means to meet current expenditures and to pay each year a portion of the public debt. The gold reserve provided for the redemption of United States notes can then be easily maintained without cost, except the loss of interest on the gold in the Treasury, but with a saving of interest on United States notes and Treasury notes of five times the interest lost by the gold held in reserve. A vastly greater benefit than saving interest is secured to our people by a national paper currency at par with coin supported by the credit of the United States and redeemed on demand in coin at |