New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-03-10
WOOLLEN MEMS EARNEST PROTEST.
THEY ASK FOR a HEARING. But 1T Is REFUSED


WOOLLEN MEMS EARNEST PROTEST.
THEY ASK FOR a HEARING. But 1T Is REFUSED
THEM
Washington March (SpeciaD.-A committee rep
resenting the Woollen and Worsted Manufacturers
of New-Jersey visited Washington yesterday Among
its members were Thomas Cakes Bloomfield; Lud-
wig Kick. Botany Worsted Mills. Passaic: Alfred
Foster Samuel X Wilson Woollen and Worsed
Mill Trenton; Felix Samson. Raritan and Somerset
Mills. Rartan Joseph Holdsworth, Pitkin Holds
worth & CO.. limited. and the Algonquin Company.
Passaic: George B. Waterhouse. Dundee Woolen
Company Passac: Henry l.. Basch Passaic
Woollen Company Rowland Croft Son Co..
Camden: J. W. Scull Ackroy Scull, Camden;
Herbert Bottomly A. Priestly & Co. Camden: Ben
tamin Boyer Sinner Boyer. Camden. and George
w Bramhall. Bound Brook Company. This com
mittee appointed at meeting OF all the WOOL
len manufacturers of New-Jersey held on March
g. and which was brought together by the alarm OF
the manufacturers at the rates of duty on woolen
goods proposed in the Senate revise of the Will
son bill This meeting represented fully soc0ep
of capital employed in this manufacture in New
Jersey. paying nearly 100000 annually In
wages to more than 10000 operatives. The members
OF the committee in earnest In their condemna-
ton of the proposed tariff, and declared that us
enactment meant either the closing Of every WOOL
len mill in New-Jersey or a reduction OF iuily ~
per cent in current wages.
The committee called upon Senators Smith and
Mcpherson and had a hearing from each Senator
They went carefully into detail as 10 the effect OF
the proposed rates Of duties upon their industry
The committee also called upon Senator Hill and
presented their case TO him. S. y. ID. North the
secretary of the Wool Manufacturers Association,
to-day addressed the following appeal for hear
To The Finance Committee of the senate; ~
The Wool Manufacturers OF the nted states
learn with profound amazement that the fin h
Committee, while ignoring thtir request LOT U mai H
has so amended that measure as TO reduce stu
further the totally Inadequate protection accorden
hrgva cha If
the House of Representatives, - -. ,.
Observation-Disclosures carpet manufacturers Wholesale
clothiers. commission merchants ana others; whose
69se5 4eysen Of sdsee X held in
York City on January TO- 1894. at which protest
Objectionable features Of this schedule Of the VIII
son b 1t was therein stated on the eSPPspsG
in the various branches of this Industry that te
adoption Of this schedule IN S aGf invesed in this
industry and render it uncertain whether the
the bin forced upon this industry transformation
OF the radical character without any precau W
, st cnmneI a reduction of wages equal to from
q AZ nsr cent under circumstances which rendered
it doubtful # the manufacture could even tne as
maintain itself against foreign competition. ~ was
and is believed that the Wilson bill. so iar I as
schedule X is concerned. was framed win no a'e-
The manufacturers have been at all times pre-,
indisputable evidence the statement above recited
At no time since the bill was Originally iranvu
have they had any opportunity
tee OF either house analyze ana explain tne q
fects OF these proposed rates or 10 pont out '.c
technical errors the classification and phraseoo6y
of the schedule . 49,, a, ,,ro,os.d
The still more radical reductions now proposeu
BY the Senate Finance Committee are Daseu uPV a.
no intelligent Information. They are ProPoseu ~
selfeyident disregard Of consequences anu 'no
manufacturers again compelled 10 ASH INA, =. ,ha
opportunity may be accorded them to snow 10 tl.
Finance Committee what these consequences "'uS'
be ......o.s ,h.t
II is conceivable TO these manufacturers un,s
legislation which threatens the destr oroun az
than SJ0OOOOOO of capital invested In group u
allied Industries scattered throughout the ohv On
shall he enacted by American Congress IN 'nS
face of this positive and uneQuivocal asser ~. o
its dcstructivencss and in total disregard oi ~,
earnest prayers of these petitioners TO De MAJ anv
eef-defence They have searched In VAN 10, ~ -
precedent for arbitrary course IL Is Io"ii' :"
me experience OF no other civilized country. .,o
Relieving their appeal to be perfectly &C.
they again respectfully ask the Finance Comh,fer
10 allow them the privilege OF a hearing 9 10
Judgment OF conhscation is passed rms pet.,o, NJ
made in the name of the 1.lO rnanuact,urci n zen
merchants participating in the newborn coh''"
ton Of January 10, 1884 - ..o,r,Y coora,arv
mr. r,,,o,oo f,orrnoittee declined, however TO ac-
cede to Mr.. North's request