Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-01-12
CONCERTED ACTION.
An Important Conference of Repre-
Sentatives of Different Branches
of the Wool Industry.
Wool Growers and Wool Mauufac-
turers Not of One MinfThe
Captured Flags to be Brought
Up in the House.
Coke Makes O Strong Speech In tho .natr
Denonucing the BIsir Bill From
Every Point CT View.
WOOL TARIFF TALK.

Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, jan. 1I-Thirteen dele
gates from the National Association Of
Wool Manufacturers met this morning to
confer with committee Of five members
each of the WoolgroWers and Wooldeal
ers Associations. These committees were
appointed at the Growers and Dealers
Convention held here last December 10
meet delegates from the Manufacturers
Association, and formulate some course
of action looking to tariff legislation that
would be advantageous 10 the three wool
interests. This will be hard to do, for,
as one delegate said today, the msnufac-
turers want wool on the free list and 8
tariff On manufactured goods or even
higher on worsted goods; while the
growers want the tariff to remain on the
raw materisl or selse removed from both
the raw and the manufactured products,
and az there are hundred growers to one
manufacturer, they can knock the man
ufac.urers higher than kite What the
manufacturers want was explained By
Acting Secretary J. W. Ballison Of the
Manufacturers Association who said this
afternoon, 1--WE are not advocating any
reduction in the present tariff nor Is this
conference the result of the Presidents
message. It is MOI OF the law the wool
growers have cause to complain, but of
the misconstruciion placed upon the law,
They suffer much more ON these upj1s:
cons tructions than from the law"
When asked what action was contem-
plated by the conference, snd whether
such action when taken would be binding
on the wool trader, he said they were
h IN "a hs1T
that the wool men always stood by sny
action they took and any seton taken b. re
will be flnal. Mr.. Allison said the wCol
manufacturing Industries OF the country
represented $500, 900, 600 cspit /. Tue
wool growers repres scented about $780,
010 900 Invested, but the character OF TIE
investment is such that the capital Can
4se converted into some other business.
The committee CT wool growers coz
sists OF William Lawrence of Ohio, E. A
Sheppard CT Texas, president of the state
eesc clatioD, Hon. John Mcdowell CT
Pennsylvania, Hon. George L. Converse
of Ohio and G. II. Wallace OF Missouri,
president of the state association. The
conference will probably last several
days, and it's expression OF opinion OF
the wool tariff will be watched with in
terest by politicians CT ali parties.
COKE ON THE BLAIR SILL.
Specia to he Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1l.-Senstor Coke
made most powerful sad logical speech
agaiGst the B air bill, SURPRISING even his
formerly master arguments against this
measure. He contended that the bill was
not only violative OF the Constitution, but
that it Was impolitic and IN wise and would
eventually do great damage to the cause OF
popular education. The states alone
were cha geable Wiah the duty Of pro-
viding instruction., and when the ra
tionsl government undertook to do this
it went beyond its scope and meddled
with what it had no concern. Depend
ing solely upon themselves the states
were causing illiteracy to disap
pear, and in the old slave
states the progress of education had
challenged the admiration Of the whole
country. Congress could donate lands
because the Constitution gave II uDre-
stricted power to do whatever it Willed
with the public lands, but there was no
authority to thus dispose OF the money
wruug by taxation from the peo-
pie It wss scheme TO reduce the
surplus revenues ard thus fssten
on the country the robber tariff system.
It would cause the various states to re-
lax their own efforts and rely entirely
upon national support. 1t would f0ment
race troubles in the south through sys-
Il N OF mix ID schools. From every point
OF view the measure was fraught with
difficulties AID dangers, and would be
opposed by the speaker to the last.
THE CAPTURED FLAGS.
WASHINGTON, Jan. IL. - Chairman
Towpshend will present in the House to-
day, if opportunity offers, the unanimous
report OF the military committee in fsVor
Of the adoption ~of Representative Bou-
tells resolution concerning the DISPOSE
ton of The captured flags. The resolu-
ton has been amended in committee by
so extending the scope OF the inquiry as
to whether the flags have been surren-
dered to officials of southern states that
it now includes all Of the states IN the
Union.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
Special to the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE following
Texas pensions were issued to-day ::
Mexican war, Lawrence S. Helm, Justin; ;
William B. P. Gaines, Austin; Hans
Specht, Spring Branch. Increase, Thomas
B. Riggs, Tascosa
AT WORK AGAIN.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE inter
state commerce commission resumed it's
hearing to-day. All the commissioners
were present.