The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1897-04-17
wESTERNERS AGREE

To Stand Together for Changoa n Wool
Rehsduls-Thsy will ORsr Amendments
20 the DInglSy BIIl to CiOSs I,OOP-Holss
for Evasion.
WASHINGTON, D. C.. April Ia
Western senator's after several confer
ences, have reached an agreement 20
stand together for important changes
in the wool schedule Of the DlnEley bill.
The senator's most prominently idsntl-
fed with the movement are Messrs.
Mantle. Carter, Shoup. Warren and
Burrows. They hive not only agreed
upon a line OF amendments, but have
decided 20 Insist on their inclusion IN
the bill The meetings held have also
been attended by many prominent wool
growers.
The proposed amendments are direct
ed mainly to closing the many loop
holes for evasion and fraud which wool
men alleSe abound In the Dingley bill
and were also found In the Mckinley
law. An amendment was agreed upon.
providing that an additional duty ot
four cents per pound shall b. levied
and priur 90 that time The principal
change. however 70 be proposed IL up
on wool and camcl's hair OF the third
class. The DinAley bill proposes an ad
Yalorem duty OF thirty-two and nftS
per cent respectively. upon woods yos
this class valued under and oYef thir-
teen cents per pound. Il Is proposed
now TO strike out the Dingley bill
clauses relating 10 third class woods,
and to insert Instead the following:
"on wools OF the third class and cam
els hair OF the third class the value
whereof shall be eight cents or less per
pound in the general markets OF the
United States. the duty shall be hve
cents per pound. and on all woods and
hair OF this class the value whereof
shall exceed eight cents per pound In
the general markets Of the United
States. there shall be an additional duty
OF Une-haif OF one cent per pound for
each Increase Of one cent per pounr IN
the value thereof
II Is claimed FOR this latter amend
ment which Is the most important OF
all the amendments proposed, that Il
will largely prevent the frauds which
It Is alleged we've perpetrated under the
ad vaIorem duties OF tho Mckinley law
by reason OF which. II Is asserted, hun
dreds OF millions OF pounds Of wool
used IN the manufacture OF clothing
which properly belonged In che ttst
class were imported at third class rates
on the representation that -heY-Her 10
be used IN the manufacture OF carpets.
The clause IN the proposed amendment
relating 10 third class woods designating
the general markets of the United
States as fixing the value OF important
wo0ls r. regarded as very important. as
IL this amendment IL admitter. Il will
practically destroy the opportunity for
under valuations which now exist
through the practice OF fixing the prices
OF thesc imported wools in foreign
countries.
other precautions will also be urged
to this end. such as defining the mean
ing OF class!iicatlous so as 10 prevent
restrictions such as have heretofore
been uled.
For Instance the words Angora. Adri-
anople. Bagdad. etc, viii be defined as
Indicating n class OF wool regardless oi
tho special district in which grown.
Senator Mantle, who Introduced tho
memorial OF the National Wool Grow
crs' Association in the senate. says that
tho amendments do not nearly cover
the demands made by the association,
but. IN hia.opiniOn, WIN be vast i'm
movement upon the bill as II passed the
house OF representatives. II will remain
with the western senators, he says 10
say whether or not the proposed
amendments shall become n part OF the
new tariff law, or whether the demands
OF wool manufacturers as applied to
wool shall outweigh those OF the wool
growers themselves.