Los Angeles daily herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1884-1890, 1889-09-08
WASHINGTON VIKINGS.
l Reply to the Wool
Growers Grievances.
A SESSION OF THE CABINET.
Decision on Territorial Tide Lands
New Army Chaplain
Indian Affairs.
Associated Press Dispatches to the HERALD. /

Associated Press Dlspatches 10 the HERALD
WASHINGTON, September Acting
Secretary Batcheller has written at length
to Columbus Delano, Secretary of the
National Wool Growers Association, al
Mount Vernon, Ohio, in reply to his let
tiers inviting attention to alleged frauds
practiced in the importation of secured
woods under the false designation O
waste. In his letter the Acting Secre
tary says the question as to the proper
classification of woods imported ani
invoiced as different kinds o.
wooden waste, has been the subject O.
careful consideration by the department
since the incoming of the Administers
ton. Reference is made to decisions
made since March last, relative to broken
wool-top. lap and garnetted waste
and it is said the subject re.
Gently has been thoroughly investigated
at the ports of New York, Philadelphia
and Boston, and it has been definitely
ascertained that the decisions of the De-
partment, restricting the classification OF
such material to wooden waste as contem-
plated by statute, are being properly en-
forced.
The published statement of the Bureau
of Statistics, to which one Of the cores
pondents refers, shows the quantity OF
wooden rags, shoddy, mungo, waste and
flacks entered, but does not specify
what proportion OF such commodities
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 ap-
praisers to be dutiable at higher rates.
In this connection it may be mem
toned" says Batcheller, "that nearly all
these importations of the year 1889 come
in under rulings of the Department made
prior to the incoming of the present adj
ministration also thsta large proportion
of so-called waste recently brought in
under the guise of broken tops, lap
waste or garnetted waste, was entered
for the warehouse, and has been exported
because Of said decisions Of the Depart
ment above referred to. Naturally that
portion which was entered for consump-
ton and subjected to higher rates of duty
by the officers of the customs, was put
upon the market at once to avoid further
loss, and hence the unusual quantity
offered in the market.
''The statements given of alleged ex-
ports from England furnish no indication
of actual importations into the United
States. AS to thread waste and ring
waste, so called. they are named in the
decision of the Court at Philadelphia in
the suits to which reference has been
made, but as to the latter
commodity, the Department is now
investigating the matter for the purpose
of causing it to be classified as secured
wool, If such course can be legally
taken. 1t may be further stated that as
q rule the decisions of the Department
now in force exclude all classes of wool
from classification as waste, except what
is actually waste, or refuse material prop
erly provided for by law as such, duti-
able at 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 alarmist statements with a
view Of depressing the market for utter.
ior purposes, should not be accepted as
conclusive unless confirmed by satisfac-
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