The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-05-14
TIE SORTED WOOL CLAUSE.
Secretary Foster Decides That This Sort
ing Clause Applies to Carpet Woods.

Secretary Foster Decides That This Sort
ing Clause" Applies to Carpet Woods.
Who makes orr tariff laws? 1t is r1su-
ally supposed that the members of con-
gress who vote for them are the makers
OF them. This is true only to u certain
extent, for the beneficiaries of the tariff
in many cases write into the tariff bill
toe duties which they want. Thus by
ways that are dark and tricks that are
ain" the tariff bill gets into the house
Of representatives. and is voted upon by
the average member, who never suspects
how many different handwritings were
to be found in the original draft of the
bill, put there by men financially inter-
ested in getting high duties and ODE
diently accepted by their political friends
On the ways and means committee.
After these protected interests get their
duties voted into law they are usually
silent-are like "Bre'r Rabbit, he lay
low" Not always so, however. Judge
Lawrence, the Ohio political shepherd,
has recently boosted of being the author
of the wool schedules of the Mckinley
law. In that law is clause called the
sorting clause," which provides that
the duty On wool which has been sort
ed or increased in value by the rejection
of any part Of the original fleece shall
be twice the duty to which it would be
otherwise subject"
When the Mckinley bill was under
discussion it was understood by the car
pet manufacturers that this language
. ~, S,NN1y- 70 -,
which bear specific duties-not to carpet
woods. where the duties are al valorem
and of course increase with the value of
the wool. Now, however, Judge Law
renee has come forward and has had Sec
rotary Foster to decide that this "sort-
ing clause applies also to carpet woods.
Judge Lawrence says, Il wrote the sort
ing clause and | know that it was SO in
tended to apply"
BY the operation of this clause some
kinds of carpet woods now imported viii
have to bear double duty, which viii
perhaps prevent their importation alto
gether. The East India woods are Away!
sorted before shipment. 4 leading man
ufacturer says of these woods, ''They arr
of great Importance to us; we use large
quantities OF them exclusively for car
pets"
A comparison Of these double dutie
on sorted carpet wool with the dutie
prevailing before the Mckinley law wa
passed will show the quality of Judg
Lawrences worth. The old duty on cal
pet wool was p cents a pound where tn
value was 12 cents q pound or less, and
capbc n TNorr,O1 xtrAN1 4.
IL cents. These duties were equal to 9
and 80 per cent. I'd valorem, respective
ly. Judge Lawrence Mad both dutie
changed to al valorem duties-32 DC
cent. on wool worth less than 13 cent
and so per cent. above that. Sorted WOO
will now pay Ga and 100 per cent.
What makes these duties all the MOI
absurd is that we raise practically Il
carpet wool, finding it more profitable |
produce clothing wool. More than tire
fourths Of our wool imported is carp
WOOL
The bath tub IN the dressing roo
Of Miss Mary Garrett, of Baltimor
cost 5000 and is lined with Mexics
onyx.
Y is calculated that it will requi
3,7S9 cars to move the orange crop
som hern California this season. II
value of the crop is estimated at S:
Cos, 600
Irritability may have its source
the stomach. The dyspeptic is II
toriously fretful and low spirite
What a difference between him al
the we'll fed man, who knows on
from books that he has any digesti
apparatus