The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-04-17
WESTERN SENATORS AGREE
They Mean to Have n Word to Say About
Wool Schedules

Washington, April 16.-Western sena-
tors, after several conferences. have
reached an agreement to stand together
for important changes in the wool SEIZED
ule Of the Dingley bill. The senators
most prominently identified in the
movement are Messrs. Mantle, Carter,
Shoup, Warren and Burrows. They
have not only agreed upon a line of
amendments, but have decided to insist
on their inclusion in the bill. The meet
ings have also been attended by meny
prominent wool growers.
The proposed amendments are directed
mainly to closing the many loopholes for
eVasions and fraud which wool men
agree abound in the Dingley law, and
were also found in the Mckinley law.
An amendment was agreed upon provid-
ing that an additional duty of cents
per pound should be levied upon skirted
woods and woods. as imported in 1890 and
prior 10 that time. The principal change,
however, to be proposed is upon wool
and camel's hair of the third-class. The
Dingley bill proposes an ad valorem
duty Of 80 and IS cents, respectively, up
on woods Of this class valued under and
over Is cents per pound. 1t is proposed
now to strike out the Dingley bill clauses
relating to third-class woods and to in
sert instead the following:
''On woods Of the third-class and
camel's hair of the third-class, the value
of which shall be cents or less per
pound in the wool markets of the Unit
ed States, the duty shall be cents per
pound, and on all the wool or camels
hair of this class, the value of which
shall exceed cents per pound in the
general markets Of the United states,
there shall be an additional duty of y
cent per pound for each increase Of cent
per pound in the value thereof"
1t is claimed for this latter amend
ment, which is the most important of ali
the amendments proposed. that it will
largely prevent the frauds which. ii is
alleged, were perpetrated on the ad
vaiorem duties under the Mckinley law,
by reason of which, it is asserted, hun
dred Of millions of pounds of wool used
in the manufacture Of clothing, which
properly belonged in the first-class, were
imported at the third-class rates on the
representation that they were TO be used
in making carpets. The clause in the
proposed amendment relating TO third
class woods, designating the general
markets OF the United States as fixing
the value of imported woods, is regarded
as very important. as, if the came
amendment is adopted. it will destroy
the opportunity for undertaking which
now exists.
Other precautions will also be urged 10
this end, such as defining the meaning OF
classihcations so as 10 prevent restric-
tons such as have heretofore been used.
For instance, the words Angora, Adrian
ople. Bagdad. etc, will be defined as in
dIcating class Of wool. regardless OF
the special district in which Il is grown.
Senator Mantle. who introduced the
memorial OF the National Wool Growers
association in the senate. says that the
amendment does not nearly cover the
demand made by the association, but. in
fis opinion. Will be a vast Improvement
upon the bill as it passed ~ house OF
representatives. L will remain with the
western senator's, he says. to say wheth-
err or not the proposed amendments
shall become a part Of the new tariff
law. or whether the demands Of the wool
manufacturers. as applied TO wool. shall
outweigh those Of the wool growers
themselves.
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