New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-04-17
WESTERN SENATOR'S AGREE.
IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE DINGLEY
BILL WOOL DUTIES DEMANDED.
LINE OF AMENDMENTS DRAWN cF "HiN''
THEY ASSERT. WILL CLOSE MANY Loof-
HOLES FOR FRAUD ALLEGED TO
EXIST IN THE MEASURE
AS 1T STANDS,

EX1ST IN 1hE "f'N'7'''
AS 1T STANDS.
Washington. April 16-The western 0ena'oi ,
after several conferences have reached an asiee
ment to stand together for important chaIse'
in the wool schedule of the Dingiey phI'
Senators most prominently Identified with Tue
movement are Messrs Mantle carter '"oup'
yyarror and purrovs They have not only
agreed upon line Of amendments nut hdNe W.
cided to insist their inclusion III ihe "'''
Their meetings have been attended Oy "'"'S
nronoinent wool-growers The proposed amenu-
ments are directed mainly to closing the many
loopholes FOR evasion end fraud which wool men
alege abound in the Dingley bill. and were also
found in the Mckinley law. An amehdn'e".
WAS agreed upon providing that an audllioha'
duty of cents per pound shall be leVieu "po"
skirted wools as imported in lS3o. ana P''''
that time The principal change however -
proposed is upon wool ard Gamer h"ir VI
third class The Dngey bill proposes al. a.
valorem duty Of - and 20 per cent iespeou''''
upon woods of this class valued uhuei anu ,,a
~ cents a pound 1t is proposed now to str'he
out the Dingley bill clauses reiauhs ~ '
class wools and TO insert instead the to"o" i"s
On woods Of the third class and cameis nar npros V
the third class the value whereof shai , uv of The
or less per pound in the general III l'' cents per
n
nond and ON Ali wools and hair OF TINS class '' i
value whereof shall exceed cents P,si pC ,here
the general markets of the Unlted az o,o cent
shall he an additional duty of one-hal. o, r v nound
nor Mound for each Increase OF one cent per P'"'"
In the value thereof , i,
IL is said for this latter amendment "i "
the most important of all those proposed ''ia'
II Will largely preven; the frauds when IL II a'-
legged were perpetrated under the al Vaiole"
duties of the Mckinley law. by reason OF ny
II is asserted hundreds of millions OF pounu,s; - -
wool used in the manufacture OF clotnlns w u
properly belonged in the first class were ip 49,
at third class rates on the representative. -
they were ID be used in the manufacture oi 90, "a
pots The clause in the proposed aitViu"' . -
relating to third class WOOls, deslSh"t"'S ~. ~
general markets of the United states az HAi,e
the value of imported WOODS. Is reSd'"cu O. q" "a
tremelv important as If this Amendments II a. d.-
n,tted II will pra cticay destroy the opportunlIy
for undervaluatons which now eNlsI thiou ,d - ,I'
practice of fixing the prices or theSf i''iP''' '~
woods in foreign countries , >. .bie
Other precautions will also he urGed 10 .ili7
eud such as defining the meaning or claSsilC"
tions so as to prevent RESTRICTIONS suoI, "9 no
heretofore been used. For instance tme tti vi
Anoora Adrianople. Bagdad, etc, VIII ne ue
dred as indicating a class of wool regardless OF
tho especial district in which grown
Senator Mantle. who introduced the nleiiio' 's' a.
NJ rho National Wool Growers Association III
tho Senate saws that these amendments 90 Hot
nearly cover the demands made by the asSocld
,ior hu, i'm his opinion will he vast improve
non, IN, the hill as il passed the House OF ltePr'-
sentatives II will remain with the Nesle, u
Senators he SAYS Ito say whether or NOT IN"
nronocod amendments shall become q part or tne
~, tarff law or whether the demands or the
WOO, ,nanufacturers as applied to wool shall out
weigh those of the wool growers themselves.