Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-17


| consumer OF wool. 1t would not reduce |
| the price of wool in this country after it |
had bees in operation sufficiently long to |
destroy the home industry. To be sure
the placing of wool on the free list would
reduce the revenue about $5 ,000, 900, but
that could be accomplished as well with
out injuring an industry by taking that
amount of gold and silver from the trea-
sury and sinking it into the Potomac ri
yer. The passage OF this bill would alb
solutely destroy the main wool-raising
industry of the country. 1t might not
destroy that of California or of Texas,
but it would absolutely destroy that of
Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia and
the Northwestern States. Wool had been
placed on the free list simply because
the President recommended it, and the
President knew no more why he recon-
mended it than Dickens fat boy knew
why he went to sleep so much.
| A VOTE DECIDED ON.
| 1t was at this point that the suggestion
OF Mr. Mills to vote on the free wool
clause at O'Clock was interposed and
adopted.
Adams, OF Illinois, spoke in favor Of
changing to January l, 1889, the time
when the free wool schedule should go
into effect
Allen, of Massachusetts,, sent to the
Clerks desk and had read a letter from
Mr.. Whitman, President of the National
Association of Wool Manufacturers, stat
ing that the wool manufacturers are op-
posed to the removal OF duty on foreign
wool. The permanent success of the
wool manufacturing industry, said the
Whitman letter, is dependent upon the
growth in this country of their principal
raw material.
Jackson, of Pennsylvania, bore testi-
J mony that the wool manufacturers OF
! Philadelphia were unccmpromisingly op-
, posed to free trade.
Kerr, of Iowa, called attention to the
fact that the reduction of the duty on
, wool in 1883 had resulted in an increase
of revenue to the extent of $11 900, 900,
and he, therefore, favored return to the
tariff of 1867.
Anderson, of Iowa, said that the self
Q constituted champions of American la
!, bor, by declaring that the bill was an
assault upon American labor and indus.
try, were presenting false issue to the
e country.
L Williams, of Ohio, protested against
the authors disregard for the interests o.
the farmers of Ohio and Texas and the
e broad prairies of the West, in placin{
d wool on the free list.
II Kelly, of Pennsylvania. here arose anC
r with considerable warmth repelled witt
n equal personality the attack made upoI
It him Saturday by Scott, Of Erie.
FREE WOOL SUSTAINED.
/ After brief argument by Breckin
i ridge. OF Kentucky, in favor of the fret
q wool clause, Wilkins of Ohio, moved tt
$ strike wool from the free list. On divi
t sion the vote stood 95 to 122 and thu
r announcement was received with ap
O plause on the Democratic side.
. Snowden, of Pennsylvania and Will
|. kins and Foran, of Ohio, were the onl.
Democrats voting in the affirmative
negative.
Butterworth, OF Ohio, wished to effec
;, an arrangement by which the aye ant
!, I. nay vote might be taken, but Mills de
!. clined to comply. Tellers were, how
! ever, ordered and wilkins motion wa
v again defeated by vote of 102 to 120.
: CARPETS, MATTINGs, ETC.
y Mills offered an. amendment strikin,
e out the clause imposing duty of 30 pc
g per cent ad Udlorem on carpets and car
J. petings, and inserting clause imposing
r a duty OF cents per square yard on jut,
+ and hemp carpetings; of 20 per cent al
r 0alOrem on floor mating and floor mats
g exclusive of vegetable substances, and O
Q 40 per cent dd UdlOrena on all other car
n pets and carpeting, druggets, bookings
q mats, rugs, screen, covers, hassocks
9 made of wool, flax, cotton or parts O
either, or other material.
Dodge, of Massachusetts, offered ar
q amendment imposing duty of 10 cents
= per square feet on cocoa mats, and II
cents per square yard on cocoa mating
, Lost, So to 95. Mills amendment wal
,, agreed to.
! Boothman, of Ohio, then called up hi
=. amendment offered some days ago
' restoring the wool tariff of 1867, and i
! was rejected by SO to 95.
8 WOOL CLAUSE GOES INTO EFFECT.
On motion of Mills. of Texas, the date
!, on which the free wool clause shall q
I into effect was fixed as October l, 1888
? and the date for the taking effect of the
l woolen schedule was fixed January
: 1889. This disposed of the wooler
3 schedule.
Dingley, OF Maine, moved to strike ou
the paragraph fixing duty of II pei
ICOuU. Ou PIIutluS paper. LOSCs
VI Mills moved that the paragraph con
: lcerning card cloth be amended 80 as te
/ increase the duty from Is to 20 per cent
. lper square foot, and in the case of such
5 cloth made of tempered steel wire, from
rs to- 40 per cent. per square foot
, Adopted.
/ Other amendments offered by Mills
t and adopted were the striking out Of
, the India rubber fabric paragraph; that
fixing the duty on kaolin at 81 per ton,
, for crude, and SO for china clay, OF
wrought kaolin, and placing the duty on
rough marble in blocks and squared, al
: 40 cents per cubic foot
This completed the consideration of the
essentially tariff features of the bill, ex-
cept in regard to such paragraphs as have
been passed over informally, and the ad-
ministrative portion Of the measure was
taken up.
CONVICT LABOR PRODUCTS.
4 Buchanan, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that no goods, in
whole or in material part the product of
convict labor, shall be imported for the
purpose Of sale or trade; rejected.
On motion of Breckinridge, of Arkan-
sas, an amendment was adopted exclud-