Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-09-08
WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
Complaint Of Wool Growers Founded
on False Reports
NO EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.
The Launching of the PhiladeIphis
Appointing California
Chaplain.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-uN1oN.I
WOOL WASTE.
Decision on Wool Tarif-How the Gov
ernment is Defraud, d.

Decision on Wool Tariff-How the Gov
ernment is Defraud, d.
WASHINGTON, September 7th.-Acting
Secretary Batchellor has written at length
to Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Ma
tional Wool Growers Association, at Mount
Vernon, in reply to his letters inviting at
tention TO the alleged frauds practiced in
the importation of secured woods under the
false designation of waste.
In his letter the Acting Secretary saws the
question as to the proper classification of
woods imported and inyoiced as different
kinds of woolen waste has been the subject
of careful consideration by the department
since the incoming administration.
Reference is made to decisions made
since March last relative to broken wool,
top, lap, and garnetted waste, and 1t is
said the subject has recently been thor
oughly investigated at the ports of New
York, Philadelphia, and Boston, and it
has been definitely ascertained that the
decisions of the Department restricting the
classification of such material to woolen
waste, as contemplated by the statute, are
being properly enforced. The published
statement of the Bureau of Statistics, to
which one of the correspondents refers,
shows the quantity of woolen rags, shoddy
mungo waste and fiacks entered but does
not specify what proportion of such COM
modities was waste, and it is impossible to
tell how much of this quantity was
properly waste, how much was secured
wool, and what proportion was found by
the Appraisers to be dutiable at higher
rates.
In this connection it may be mentioned,
says Bachelor, that nearly all these i'm
portations of the year 1889 come in under
the rulings of the Department made prior
to the incoming of the present administra-
ton; also that a large proportion of
the so-called waste" recently brought in
under the guise of broken tops, lap waste,
garnetted waste was entered for warehouse,
and hes been exported because of said de.
cisions of the Department above referred
to. Naturally that portion which was en-
tered for consumption and subjected to the
higher rates of duty by officers of customs
was put upon the market at once, to avoid
further loss, and hence the unusual guam
tity offered in the market.
Statements are given of alleged exports
from England, which furnish no indication
of the actual importations into the United
States. AS to thread waste" and ring
waste" so called, they are named in a de-
cision OF Court at Philadelphia, in suits to
which reference has been made, but as TO
the latter commodity the department is
now investigating the matter, for the pur-
pose of causing it to be classified as secured
wool, if such course can be legally taken.
1t may be further stated that, as rule,
the decisions of the department now in
force exclude all classes of wool from clas-
sification as waste, except what is actually
waste or refuse material properly provided
for by law as such, dutiable at rate of 10
cents per pound.
In conclusion the Acting Secretary says
the representations Of wool dealers and
wool spectators at the seaboard, who may
have an interest in putting out the alarm
ist statements with view of depressing
the market for other ulterior purposes,
should not be accepted as conclusive unless
confirmed by satisfactory proof