Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-23
ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE prsPArcH.i

| ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DrsPArCH.I
WASHINGTON, July 22-The Philadel-
phia manufacturers who contributed
through Wanamaker to that S4O0, 900 cam
paign fund on the promise of the Chairman
| of the National Republican Committee that
they shouldn't lose anything by it are dis
covering that their confidence was not mis-
placed.
Mr.. Quay knows what he is about. One
of the first appointments asked by him was
that Of Mr.. Leach to be Appraiser of the
Port at Philadelphia. Leach is brother
of Frank Willing Leach.a "a brother of Quay s
private secretary, and of course service
able and controllabIe official.
One of the first things Leach did after
taking possession of his office was to ask the
Secretary of the Treasury for permission to
classify woolens and worsteds together.
Leach prepared the data at the Philsdel-
phia end of the line, and Quay saw that
there was
NO HITCH AT THIS END.
The change of classification was of great
help to the carpet manufacturers of Phila-
| delphia, who were among the most liberal
contributors to the $4O0, 1000.
Within the last few days another scheme,
still more important, has been pushed
through by the efforts of Leach and Quay.
AT Leach's suggestion the Treasury ap-
praisers have decided to admit English
wool waste at 10 cents pound instead of 80
or 60 cents. According to law the duty on
plain wool waste is 10 cents a pound, on
scourad ,rool On 70 On oan,s a noun6 ord o,
secured wool which has been subjected to
further process of preparation, go cents a
pound. Here was loop-hole of which the
manufacturers on this side of the water
and the exporters on the other decided to
take advantage.
HOW AN EVASION WAS EFFECTED.
On account of the high rate of duty on
secured wools and noils. the latter being the
short fbers, knots, broken heeces and
tangled fbers combed from secured wool,
the expedient was hit upon of running this
stuff through garneting machine. Large
quantities of garnet waste are annually
turned out in England for export to America.
The machine tears and ravels out the twist
in thread, thus reducing it back to the
original wool by reason of taking out the
twist which is originally given to the wool
to make it yarn or thread. In the process
of spinning yarn or thread from wool, per-
centage of this yarn becomes tangled and is
called thread waste. By running it through
garnet machine the stock is restored to the
original condition of wool, all
THE TWIST BEING TAKEN OUT
of the yarn, leaving the wool which COM
poses it in a condition of unspun wool top.
1t is capable of being used for any purpose
for rrbi oh g. okr raI
be used. It can be either combed or carded,
and can be spun into worsted or wooden
yarn. To make salable article, noils and
other secured woods were run through the
machines with the other waste, for the pur-
pose of Disgusting the mixture. The
material thus produced was a highly
purified article of wool, useful to carpet
manufacturers, yarn makers, and others,
and yet it was brought to this country
under the guise of waste.
The Cleveland administration, caring
more for a faithful execution of the revenue
laws than for the profits OF Philadelphia
carpet manufacturers refused to let this
article in
UNDER ITS FALSE CoLoRs,
and collected the lawful duty of 30 cents a
pound. 1t had actually become so pro-
ttable to import this so-called waste and
cheat the revenues that in England for
time the price of the article was raised
above the price of the secured wool from
which it was made. Secured wool could
not be sent to the United States because of
the 80 cents per pound duty, while the same
article, under the name of garneted waste,
could be admitted at only 10 cents per
pound duty.
Quay and Leach have succeeded in hav-
ing the old rule restored. Again, this bogus
waste made OF highly purified and workable
wool, comes in at a rate of duty which de-
frauds the revenues, and the Philadelphia
manufacturers are in q fair way to get re-
turn of the money which they invested in
Harrison's election through Wanamaker.
THE LAMBS TO BE FLEEcED.
The duties on carpet wools imported dur
ing the last fiscal year amounted to the snug
sum of $2,377, 900. The American WOOL
grower is one of the lambs who will be
plucked by this fraud. The Quay party has
cheated him sadly.
In the last campaign the Ohio and other
Western woolgiowers Joined hands with the
manufacturers in electing Harrison under
a compact which was to protect the interests
of both. The manufacturers were to have
the benefit of an identical classification of
woolens and worsteds, and the woolgrowers
were to be satisfied with ruling that would
put stop ito the importation of secured
wool disguised as waste, at the low rate Of
duty. An effort was made to carry out the
terms of the compact. Secretary Window
had decision ready that would have
SHUT OUT ALL THE BOGUS WASTE
as it declared the garneted stuff secured
wool, which had been subjected to a further
process of preparation, and therefore subject
to a duty OF 60 cents per pound.
At the last moment the influence of Quay
was brought to bear, the bargain with the
wool growers was repudiated, and the Phila-
delphla manufacturers are now in clover.
They gain at both ends, securing cheaper
raw materials from abroad and higher prices
for their manu- actured goods to be worked
off on the hoodwinked public.