Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-07-17
THE WOOL SCHEDULE.
THE HOUSE REFUSES TO CHANGE IT BY A
GOOD MAJORITY.


optlokcNy VI AhAhoio, III tuo CuauJ Ou tus
tariff bill, the woolen schedule being pend
ing.
Mr.. E. P. Taylor, Of Ohio, in opposing
the schedule, argued that the passage Of
the bill would not benefit the consumer oi
wool. II would not reduce the price Of
wool in this country after 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 $1,000, 600, but it could be
accomplished jnst as well without iDjuring
an industry by taking that amount Of gold
and silver from the Treasury and sinking
Ii in the Potomac river.
IT NEVER DID BEFORE.
The passage of the bill, he said, would
absolutely destroy the wool raising indus
try of the country. 1t might not destroy
that of California, or Oregon, or 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 Presi-
dent knew no more about il than Dickens
fat boy knew why he went to sleep so
much.
At the suggestion of Mr.. Mills, of Texas,
it was agreed that a vote should be taken
on the free wool clause at o'clock.
Mr.. Adams, of Illinois, spoke in favor
Of changing to January /, 1889, the time
when the free wool schedule shall 90 into
effect
Mr.. Allen, of Massachusetts,, sent to the
Clerks desk and had read letter from
Mr.. Whitman, President of the National
Association 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 manu-
featuring industry, says Mr.. Whitman, is
dependent on the growth 10 this country
Of their principal raw material
Mr.. jackson, of Pennsylvania, bore tes-
timopy that the wool manufacturers of
Philadelphia were uncompromisingly op-
posed to free wool.
Mr.. Kerr, Of Iowa, called attention to
the fact that the reduction OF the duty on
wool in 1888 had resulted in an increase
OF revenue to the extent of $11, ,0G0, 900,
and he therefore favored o return to the
tariff of 1867.
Mr.. Anderson, of Iowa, said that the
self constituted champions of American
labor, declaring that the bill was an as
sault upon American industry, were
PRESENTING A FALSE ISSUE
TO the country.
Mr.. Williams, of Ohio, protested against
the ruthless disregard of the interests Of
the farmers Of Ohio and the great North
west of Texas and the broad prairies Of
the Southwest in placing wool on the free
hst.
Mr.. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, said he
cav from the Record that on Saturday last
the member from Erie Mr. Scott had in
dulged in an unusually reckless fanfare
made in the course Of which, after referring
TO him (Mr. Kelley by name, the mem
ber had said that neither age nor sssocia-
ton can cultivate in one what nature has
not given him-those traits of character
which gentlemen recognize both in public
and private life as the best types of true
manhood.
If that members public and private life
were governed by the traits to which he
alluded, it was matter of great happiness
to him Mr. Kelley that nature did not
bestow them upon him; and if the MEM
Der alluded to those traits which permitted
him, in pursuit Of his own advantage to
pervert and fslsify statements made by
gentlemen, or which, according to his code
required man who was forced to hear q
all the essential points Of
which were falsified and perverted by q
party to such conversation, to abstain from
exposing such Justification and psrversiOu,
he Mr.. Kelley humbly thanked his Gre
ator for having protected him from the do
minstion Of such traits.
THE VOTE.
After brief argument by Mr.. Breck-
enridge, of Kentucky, in favor Of the free
wool clause, Mr.. Wilkins, of Ohio, moved
to strike wool from the free list. On di-
vision the vote stood SO to 122, and the
was received with applause
on the Democratic side. Mr.. Sowden, OF
Pennsylvania, and Mr.. Wilkins and Mr..
Fors1, of Ohio. were the only Democrats
voting in the affirmative, while Mr.. Auder-
son, of Iowa, voted in the negative. Mr..
Butterworth, of Ohio, wished to effect an
by which an aye and nay vote
might be taken in the House, but Er. Mills
declined to comply. Tellers were then
ordered and Mr.. wilkins motion was de-
feated, 102 to 120.
n,p NUTS orrrprn AN AnrSDNENr
strickiDg ont the clause imposing . duty
of 80 per cent. sd vslorem on carpets and
and inserting clause imposing
q duty OF 8 cents per square yard ad val
orem on floor mating snd floor mats ex-
elusiyely of vegetable fbres Of 40 per
cent. ad vslorem on sll other carpets and
eerpeting, druggets, mats, rugs, screens,
covers, Hassocks bedsteads, OF wool, fax
composed in whole or part of either, or
other material.
Mr.. Lodge Of Massachusetts,, offered
an amendment imposing duty OF 1Oc
per square foot on cocoa mats and 15c per
square yard on cocoa mating. Lost, Sc
to 95.
Mr.. Mills amendment was agreed TO.
Mr.. Bcothman, of Ohio, then called up
his amendment offered some days ago re-
tainiug the wool tariff OF 1867, and 1t was
rejected by SO to 80.
On motion of Mr. Mills, Of Texas, the
date on which the free will clause shall 90
into effect was fixed rs October I, 1888,
and the date for the taking effect Of the
woolen schedule was fixed rs January /,
1889. This disposed of the woolen schedule
OTHER AMENDMENTS.
Mr.. Mills moved that the paragraph
card cloth be amended so rs TO
increase the duty from Is to 20 cents per
square foot, and in the case of such cloth
made of tempered steel wire from 25 to 40
cents per square foot. Adopted.
Other committee amendments offered by
Mr.. Mills and adopted were to strike out
the India rubber fabric paragraph; fixing
the duty on kaolin at 81 per ton for crude
and 81 for china clay or wrought ksolin,
aud placing the duty on rough marble in
blocks and squares at 40 cents per cubic
foot
This completed the consideration Of the
tariff features of the bill lex
cept in regard to such paragraphs as have
been passed over informally and
THE ADMINISTRATIVE PORTION
of the measure was taken mp.
On motion Of Mr.. Breckenridge, Of Ar