The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-01-21

Total Carpet" wools i'm.
ported, and their value. 1919 go e, 525, ,341
His object in presenting the state
ment is to show that more than trO
thirds Of the total imports Of icOOl under
the present law, are at the merely nom-
inal rates Of three and six cents per
pound, being worked into Class Three
for that purpose. He ascribes this to
the character of the law, both in design
and eXscution-its classification being
novel and as he thinks wholly arbitrary
and Intellectual, while the wording is
such as to open the third class to every
thing! Class One, it is true, nominally
includes what is not designated in classes
Two and Three, but class Two is so
drawn as really to amount to little or
nothing, while class Three is compre-
hensive enough to leave very little
for either of the others. The fault
he finds with class Two, is its limi
tation to the wool of four English
breeds, Canada long woods, or other
Ike cOmbing ,cool Of English blood'-leav-
ing it to be implied that purity of Eng
lish blood is requisite, and therefore
that grades are excluded, as well rs
mixed or non-English combing woods of
Scotland, Ireland, France, Holland,
South America, &c.,-which are thus
left for class Three. This last class, un.
der the phrase "and elsewhere" cOmpre-
hends the whole world as its base OF
supplies, with no limitation except the
use of the wool so classified for carpet
making-a distinction, like that OF
class One, never known in the trade OF
alluded to in prices-current, and, as the
coarser always cover the tiner,' operat.
ing as incluSirely here, as it does erclW-
Sirely in the former.
We are led to give this summary of q
very long paper, the publication OF
which in full our limits preclude, be.
cause the subject is one worthy of spe.
cial examination in the interest of the
| Wool Growers of the country. The
imported into New York under the new
law, (the rates for class three being only
and cents per pound will be found
from the above table to be about a. cents
to the pound, or allowing for gold value
fraction over cents in currency
Our correspondent says: "The different
rates of duty which the woods of each
class, according TO the bill, are to pay,
are Of no practical consequence, as expert.
ence. under all our tariffs, has always
proved that the lower rates only
will be generally collected" The
average duties paid on the imports
at Boston was fraction lower than
at New York. We have no state.
ment to show the actual amount
collected in the aggregate; but, if the
above figures are correct, it is easy to
calculate the amount of duty charge
able under the law. This reckoning
proves that the acreage protection afforded
10 the rool grOTer by the present tariff is 9
| fraction less than sic and eight-tentht
cent, per pound, specie, taking all sorts OF
wool into the account. Our correspop.
dent estimates this as a little less than
oHe-haD the protection afforded by this
same bill to Manufacturers, in the du.
ties imposed on woolens. Little won,
der, then, that at their meeting in New
York, last October, they were ready tc
vie with the wool growers themselves
in passing resolutions extolling this
equitable and impartial measure!
If it should be claimed, however, thai
the two-thirds of our imports Of wool
thus shown to he brought into the coun
try at the lowest rates Of duty, are real.
ly woods of low value, and are charged
with all the duty they ran bear, our cor
respondent only asks q closer view oi
the figures given. Fortunately, these
include values as we'll as quantities
and but few figures are needed to show
that the {, 6,S95, ,029 pounds, imported il
classes One and Two, were of sworn
average value of fraction less hdA II
cents per pound; while the average
value of the Is, rs, ,769 pounds, imported
in class Three, was a fraction oreY
l6 cents per pound. More remarkable
still, taking the imports at Boston By
themselves yankee trade is proverbial
| ly 'cute,) We find that the value of the
2,l0S ,2iS pounds imported at that port
in classes One and Two, averaged l4j
cents per pound; while the 2,62s, ,s3t
pounds, of the Third class, averaged
nineteen and half ceats-in other words
that the cheap and coarse "carpet
wools," which alone were to be
admitted at low duty, really cost
the enterprising Boston merchant q
price more than ORe-hird higher than
he paid for the raw material OF
velvety bIoadcloths and lustrous alpac-
as If it is claimed that owing to the
dd rdlorem rates in classes One and Two,
and not in class Three, values in the
latter are given moro correctly, land
thus higherD thaniin the former, We do
not see that this helps the matter at all
lit is only confessing to sharp practice
of another kind, and is rather increas.
ing than diminishing the evils for which
That is to say, for eIample-thers is No
legal or universally admitted limit 70 which
fnenGss Of texture in carpets may be carried,