Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-02-18

1888; that wool growing employs three
/ tines more capital than wool msnutsctur
/ ing, employs seven times as many persons,
aud adds more to the national wealth and
Independence than the wool manufacturing
industry; that wool growing 10 protected
only go pes cent, Whit Scol msouisc
turins is protected 6. Der Gent; that tbs
manufacturers OF wooleDs including car
pets. have control Of tbs home market;
that of the S303,0OO,0OO worth OF Woolens
consumed in the United States 1861 ,OOO,-
600 wo;th are American products and emily
S36, coo 600 worth imports, and tNose i'm
pOrtations msinly confined to fine clothes
and ladies' wear; Of thirty.four million
square yards Of carpet consumed last year
only six hundred thousand square yards
were imported.
The letter claims that Mr.. Manning 8 re-
port 10 Congress fsvoring free raw materi-
ala is violation Of the public pledges
given in the Chicago Democratic platform,
and II the wool consumed in the United
States is to be bought abroad it would be
Just as well to bay it in the form Of cloths
and garments.
The other view, represented By the man.
ufacturers Of wooden goods, was then pre-
scented By the importers of washed Rools OF
New York and Philadelphia, whose impor.
tatious have been classified az secured
wools, subject TO three times the
duty on unwsshed carpet WOO, or
to seven and one,hslt cents per
pound. The hearing lasted several hours,
and the subject was thoroughly discussed
BY both sides. Mr.. John Lees, OF Bridge
port, Pa, an importer Of lnSsshed carpet
aools and q manufacturer of yarns and
wooden goods, on whose complaint the
new classification of these woods
had been made, appeared with
counsel on the side OF the New York
Appraiser and produced a scientific
opinion Of Prot. Percivsl Fraser, Of Phila'
delphis, maintaining the position that |
these woods in question were secured.
Counsel supported this assertion by athda
Wits OF Numerous dealers in domestic woods
who claimed that washed wool meant
exclusively wool washed on the Sleeps
back, and that all wool washed other
wise Was secured wool. On the
other eide there appeared numerous
importers of the washed Donskot woods !
and two large carpet manufacturers the
president Of the Hartford Carpet Company !
and The other manufacturer from Phila-
ielphis, WHO opposed that testimony by
and various atlidsvi;s. They
ias;s ed that the scientific opinion offered
By counsel on the other side was tistly con-
,radicted by the elaborate report made by
the Hall Academy of Sciences, represented
BY Prot. Chandler, OF New YORK., Prot. Nor
ton of the Steven institute, and Prot
Brewer, OF Yale College, who had exsmiG-
Ell iato The suhisct n the request OF the
Secretary u the Treasury The testimony
Of the dealers in domestic woods, it was
urged By the importers, was applicable
only 10 the classification Of hne woods,
While 10 carpet woods had for the past
twenty years ever been classed as
secured wool under the classification estab-
ished by The Morrill, tariff, which classified
ion was shown to be in force to-day.
These washed Douskof woods were proved
% DC washed in TIE rivers after being
Tipped in hot water without the
lse Of any sosy or chemicals.
Even with reference to iine woods the
assertion Of the other side was shoTn 10 be
srroueoua, since washed wool is never
,lagsed as secured wool. The importers
.ad manufacturers also proved that no
Dorskol or other carpet woods have
ever been called secured in any foreign
,r domestic price current, and that such an
,rticla was unknown to consumers. Their
testimony further went 10 show that the
iu'y CT carpet wool is purely revenue
luty. not more than per cent. oil our
Of such wools being produced
Z the Gn.t.l States The testimony will
De aubni,tsd 20 Assistant Secretary Fair
,lid, who is nov absent, after his return
. Washington when he nay be expected
, make biz decision.