The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1893-11-23
Iron Ore Has Been Placed on the
Free List.
THE WOOL SCHEDULE is FINISHED
Outline OF Changes from the Present
Tariff Bill-The Changes ms They Are
Explained by tho Democrats on the
Ways and Means Committee.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.-The iron ore
men have been defeated. and the men
who have combatted so valiantly to keep
this article of the free list were yesterday
informally notified by members OF the
ways and means committee that 1t had
been finally decided by the Democratic
members that iron ore would be placed on
the free list.
This Is the most important development
OF the day, as it leaves the iron ore men OF
Alabama, Virginia and Michigan no al
tentative but TO carry their fight to the floor
of the house. This they threaten to do,
and IL is more freely stated than ever that
the new tariff bill containing this new
provision will be opposed In the house by
the solid Democratic delegation from Ala
bama, and in the senate by Senator's Nor
gan and Pugh.
The Western Iron Ore association,
through George Ely, president. has made
a vigorous protest to the committee. The
western iron ore men In their communi-
cation gave a history of the development
of Lake Superior iron ore industry, and
make an appeal for the retention OF the
present duty not only in their own inter
est but in the interest of the consumer and
the laboring man. The letter concludes
thus:
II, for a while ahead, iron ore should be any
cheaper than IL has been for the last two
years, IL can only come through materially
lower wages not only in mining, but on the
docks, on the vessels and on the railroads that
give IL transit TO mills and furnaces; and,
along the line of independent industries In
Lake Superior ores alone, Sls2, COO, 900 Is now
invested with all the labor occupation in
yolved.
Iron ore is product of labor and capital.
Todiscriminate against IL because IL Is at the
bottom and because theorists designate IL as
raw material, would be an obvious injustice.
IL finished products above iron ore are msde
dutiable there can be no valid reason for a
different treatment Of this product.
Wool.
The committee yesterday concluded the
wool schedule of the new tariff bill. The
measure provides for the admission free of
duty of all woods, hair Of the camel, goat
alpaca and other like animals, and of
wool and hair on the skin, top waste and
other wastes, and rags composed wholly
or I'm part Of wool; and also repeals what
are known as compensatory duties on
woolen goods and reduces the ad valorem
duties on such goods.
1t also repeals the compensatory duties
upon carpets iof all kinds, rugs and mats,
and reduces the ad valorem duties thereon
from 40 per cent ad valorem to 80 per cent
ad valorem. 1t reduces the duties upon
certain qualities of waste which have been
advanced beyond the condition Of secured
wool, by the use Of machinery or by the
application of labor, to % per cent ad va
loren. The duty on shoddy, mungo and
certain other wastes is put at rs per cent
ad valorem.
(. Over 1000 petition kilograms and me-
MORALS have been received by members Of
the committee from temperance societies
asking that the whisky tax be raised.
J. s. Langler, S. Goldenberg AMI others
of New York yesterday appeared and
urged the passage Of measure to prevent
representatives of foreign houses from
coming to America and taking orders for
foreign goods. They want license i'm
posed upon such agents, who shall be
termed peddlers.
They also urged and received assurance
that provision should be inserted in the
new tariff bill providing that the value
OF the outside crates, cases. boxes, sacks
and coverings in which merchandise Is
packed for shipment to the United States
shall not be included In the dutiable value
of the merchandise contained in the same,
but shall hereafter be free from duty.