The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-17
the whole on the tariff bill, the wooden
schedule being pending.

schedule, argued that the passage OF
the bill would not benefit the consumer
of wool. 1t would not reduce the price
of wool in this country until it had
been 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
So, 500, 600, but that could be accom-
plished as well without injuring an in
dustry by taking that amount of gold
and silver from the treasury and sinking
it IN the Potomac River. The passage
of this bill would absolutely destroy the
main wool raising industry of the
country. 1t might not destroy that of
California or Texas, but it would abso-
lutely destroy that of Pennsylvania,
Ohio, West Virginia and the north
western States. Wool had been placed
on the free list simply because the
President recommended it, and the
President knew no more why he re-
commended it than Dickens fat boy
knew why he went to sleep so much.
1t was at this point that a
suggestion of Mr.. Mills to vote on the
free wool clause at l o'clock was inter
posed and adopted.
Adams, of Illinois, spoke in favor of
changing to January 1st, 1889, the time
when the free WoolSschedule should go
into effect.
Allen, of Massachusetts, sent to the
clerks desk and had read letter from
Mr.. Whitman, President of the Nation
aIaAssociation of Wool Manufacturers,
stating that the wool manufacturers are
opposed to the removal of the duty on
foreign wool. The permanent success
of the wool manufe curing industry,
said the Whitman letter, is dependent
on the growth in this country of their
principal raw material.
Jackson, of Philadelphia, bore
testimony that the wool manufac
turers of Philadelphia we're uncom-
promisingly opposed to free wool.
Kerr, of Iowa, called attention to the
fact that the reduction of the duty on
wool in 1888 had resulted in the increase
of the revenue to the extent of $1l OOO,-
600, and he therefore favored a return
to the tariff of 1867.
Anderson, of Iowa, said that the self
constituted champions OF American
labor, by declaring that the bill was an
assault upon an American industry,
were presenting false issue to the
country.
Williams, of Ohio, protested against
the ruthless disregard of the interests
! OF the farmers of Ohio, and the great
northwest, of Tex is and the broad
prairies of the southwest, in placing
wool on the free list.
Kelly, of Pennsylvania, here arose,
and with considerable warmth repealed
with equal personality the attack made
upon him on Saturday by Scott, of Erie.
After brief argument by Brecken-
ridge, of Kentucky, In favor of the free
wool clause, Wilkins, of Ohio, moved
to strike wool from the free list. On a
division the votes stood 90 to l22, and
the announcement was received with
applause on the Democratic side.
Sowden, Of Pennsylvania, and Will
kins and Foran, of Ohio, were the only
Democrats voting in the affirmative.
while Anderson, OF Iowa, voted in the
negative.
Butterworth, of Ohio, wished to effect
an arrangement by which an aye and
clined to comply. Tellers were then
ordered and Wilkins motion was de-
feated-102 to 120.
Mills offered an amendment striking
out the clause imposing a duty of 30
per cent. adj UdIOren1 on carpets and car
peting and inserting the clause, i'm
posing duty of cents per square
yard on hemp and jute carpeting, of 90
per cent. Gd ValOren1 on floor mating
and floor mats exclusively of vegetable
substance and 40 per cent. dd VGIOrenl
on ell other carpets and carpeting,
druggists bookings, mats, rugs, screens,
covers, hassocks and bedsides, of wool
haX, cotton or parts of either, or other
material.
Dodge, of Massachusetts,, offered an
amendment imposing duty of 10 cents
per square foot on cocoa mats and Is
cents per square yard on cocoa mating
Lost--86 to 95.
The Mills amendment was agreed to.
Boothman, of Ohio, then called up his
amendment, offered some days ago,
restoring the wool tariff of 1869-and it
was rejected-59 to 95.
On motion of Mills, of Texas, the
date on which the free wool clause shall
go into effect was fixed as October 1.
1888, and the date for the taking effect
of the WOODEN schedule was fixed as
January l, 1884, This disposed of the
wooden schedule.
Dingley, of Maine, moved to strike
out the graph fixing duty of IL
pei tOuI' Ou pIIutluS paper. LOSL.
Mills moved that the paragraph con-
corning card cloth be amended so as to
increase the duty from Is to 25 per
cent. per square foot, and in the case
of such cloth made from tempered steel
wire, from % to 40 cents per square
foot. Adopted.
The other amendments offered by
Mills and adopted were, striking
out of the india rubber fabric
paragraph, fixing the duty on
kaolin at 81 per ton for crude and 50 for
China clay or wrought kaolin, and
placing the duty on rough marble in
blocks and squared at 40 cents per
cubic foot. This completed the con-
sideration of the essentially tariff
features of the bill, except in regard to
such paragraphs as have been passed
over informally, and the administrative
portion of the measure was taken up.
Buchanan, of New York, offered an
amendment providing that no goods,
product in whole, or in material part,
of convict labor, shall be imported for
the purpose of sale or trade. Rejected.
On motion of Breckenridge, of Ar
kansas, an amendment Was adopted
excluding from the provisions of the
section which provides that ad vaEoreps
duties shall include the value of car
tons, cases, boxes, etc, in which mer-