Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1896-07-09
THE WOOL GROWERS.
Organization Completed by the EIec-
tiOn of Neutrality-suspicious. to the
Mckinley Schedule-Fair-
ness for the Producer
Demanded.

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Wool Growers association was com mpleted
at Las Vegas yesterday afternoon by the
election of the following officers: Presi-
dent, M. W. Browne, San Miguel county;
first vice president, Pedro Perea, Bernal-
lilo county; secretary and treasurer, Geo.
Arnot, San Miguel county; executive COM
mittee, M. W. Browne, San Miguel county
Z. Montoya, Socorro county; Sol Luna,
Valencia county; M. S. Otero, Bernalillo
county; ]. G. Clancy, Guadalupe county.
A vice president for each county was
| chosen as follows:
Bernalillo, Wm. Mcintosh; Chaves, W.
s. Prayer; Colfax, Jerome Troy; Dona
Ana, @. HsArmiJo; Eddy, to be supplied;
Grant, L. Burdick; Guadalupe, Charles
Sumner; Lincoln, M. Chavez; Mora, Sc
rapio Romero; Rio Arriba, T. D. Burns;
San Juan, Salome Jaquez; San Miguel,
Chas. Ilfeld; Santa Fe, Juan Ortiz; Sierra,
j. j. Garcia; Socorro, E. Chavez; Taos, A.
Mueller; Union, I. Gallegos Baca; Va
lencia, V. Sais.
resolution was offered, advising
sheepmen to hold on to their sheep and
not dispose of them, as it was believed
ohou oouUoi Ollhes "ouiu PreVall III no us
taht oate ana after adopting lengthy
preamble the following was adopted:
Whereas, The act of 1890, while it to
ereao extent rendered protection to the
wool aud sheep industries, was neverthe-
less defective in mauy particulars, and to
such an extent that great frauds could be
perpetrated under it by means of under
Vainatlons' sklrtlng, sorting and admix-
lures, TO reduce values, importing secured
Wools as washed, and washed wools and
onwashed and hetter classes thereof as
lower classes, which defects should not
be repeated In future legislation; there
lore, De 1t
Resolved, BY the Wool Growers asso-
clatlon OF New Mexico: That the de-
pressed condition OF our wool and sheep
industries IN this territory, and in the
whole United States, demands the enact
ment OF suoh tarlft legislation by CON
gress as VIII furnish ample protection to
those industries against all foreign com
petltors, ana restore them to their former
state OF prosperity.
10 that end, We demand nat, SPECIFIC
duty or lo cents per pound on all i'm
ported unwashed wools, and double that
amount on washed wools, and treble that
amount on secured wools, aud that such
provision be INCORPORATED In law as will
prom, olt the advantage taken under for
mer laws by means OF skirtlng, sorting,
admlxtures to reduce Value, importing
secured as washed wools, and washed
WOODS as anwashed wools, and better
GLASSES as lower Glasses; that we OBJECT to
eaoh and every enactment which imposes
an ad vaiorem duty and insist that every
duty snail be speciflc, and that the duty
on shoddy shall be prohlbitory' and we
demand further that duty of not less
tnan 20 cents per mead be placed upon all
sheep imported from foreign countries.
hesolved, Ihat IL IS the oelief OF TINS
assoclatloh ana tne wool growers OF new
Mexlco' that by the enactment OF such
laws, not only VIII Dc reRalneu IN New
M e1ico, and throughout the United
ocates' tne prosperous condition enjoyed
ny our sneeP ana wool INDUSTRIES curing
the years ending June 1928 ana 1884 but'
that within period OF hve pears under
such iegisiation' the United states Will be
aole TO supply an the wool consumed by
the people In this country.
Resolved "hlle we demand protectlon
ZOE the sheep ana wool industries OF TINS