UNITED STATES.
THE ARBITRATION TREATY. THE TARIFF.. [Per Press Association.] WASHINGTON, March 23. The Senate has adopted the amendments made by the Foreign Relations Committee in the arbitration treaty. Mr Dingley, in introducing the Tariff Bill stated that the average yearly deficit for the past three years amounted to fifty million dollars. Free wool had cost the country twenty-one million dollars. Excluding wool, sugar, tobacco and spirits, the average of the new duties would be 41 per cent. The revenue in the second year would increase by a hundred million dollars.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVII, Issue 11226, 25 March 1897, Page 5
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