Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1898-10-29

factory, ana great complaint MAJ grow
up among the wool growers. 1t has no
been a matter to affect the manufac
turer. but it has affected the WOO
grower unfavorably. l will tell the gen
tleman how this has happened. TIT
original designation allowed certain
woods to come in under the third clasi
Ito which I will in a moment refer, il
which and as a part of which there wal
clothing Wool-a large quantity of it
And there We're great frauds perpetrat
ed in that way upon the wool grower:
| of the United States. Now, we have
taken out of that designation of thirt
class woods the following:
"Bagdad wool, China lambs wool
Castel Branco, Adrianople skin wool OF
butchers wool, and such as have beer
heretofore usually imported into the
United States from Buenos Ayres, etc
All those woods may be said to have
been conduits of fraud upon the cloth
ing wool men. That affected the terri
tory of the gentleman (Mr. Fergusson)
probably in a larger degree than it did
any other locality, because of the pc
culiar grade of wool raised there. In
order to relieve that difficulty, to make
the bill fair, and to get rid of the frauds
under it, the committee has seen fit
apparently with consent of all inter
ested-to lift out of the carpet wool sec
lions all the woods which l have desig-
mated and put them among first class
woods.
Right at this point in the debate Mr..
FERGUSON disappeared. He had al
lowed his five minutes to be used up by
other members of the house in discuss
ing cattle importations along the Mex
lean and Canadian borders: he sprung
his little amendment to the wool sched-
ule when the house was discussing ter
ra Gotta long before the wool schedule
floor for his display of ignorance of the
one subject of which he was
supposed to have a thorough
understanding-wool. When the wool
schedule was finally reached, Mr..
FERGUSON, probably remembering
the uncomfortable moments spent dur
ing his previous effort to secure a high
err duty on carpet woods, of which there
are none produced in the territory, for
the benefit of the people of New Mex
leo. never appeared. His voice was ST.
lent.
In the little Introductory talk made
by Mr.. Ferguson, when he introduced
his premature amendment, whit. he
had read preparatory to introducing
when the wool schedule was reached.
and which was laughed out OF the
house, was lever heard again, not even
when the proper time came for intro
ductions to the subject of wool, he made
more than one reference to "the pow
erful wool growers of Pennsylvania
Just to show how powerful tn, wool
growers of Pennsylvania are, a few fig
ures taken from the Statistical Abb
SlTdCI VI Lie olltCN oSotSo 49, 'NiN
given: In 1897, the powerful wool
growers of Pennsylvania" owned TO-
795 head of sheep and clipped 4,239,372
pounds Of wool. The same year the
wool growers of New Mexico owned
2,514, 223 head of sheep and clirred
II, Ala, OO4 pounds of wool.
Now, then, let us see what Mr.. Fer
gusson really did while in the E5th con-
gress that entities him to tile claims
made by the Democrats that the terri
tory is indebted to him for the present
tariff on wool. For convenience sake
the items will be numbered:
1. Before the wool schedule was
reached Mr.. Ferguson was given five
minutes in which to speak on terra
Gotta.
9. In place of speaking on terra cot
ta, in which the people of New Mexico
are about as much interested as they
are in the irrigation canals on the
moon, he spoke on wool.
3. In speaking on wool he demon
to the other members of the
that he knew nothing whatever
about the subject.
4. He introduced an amendment to
the tariff on third class wool, of which
lone is raised in the territory, and had
it read preparatory to introducing 1t
when the wool schedule was reached.
S. After hearing his own amendment
read he decided that his figures were
too high, and knocked off 4 cents per
pound on the duty asked for.
6. He allowed other members of the
house to use up his precious five min
ltes in talking about Mexican and Cam
adam cattle and did not get a chance to
his speech, which was to make
him solid with the New Mexico wool
growers.
Z. His amendment introduced for
the purpose of having it read prepara-
tory to introducing it when the wool
schedule was reached, was laughed out
Of the house.
8. When the wool schedule vas fin
ally reached, he eve appeared at all,
and the wool schedule passed just the
same as if he had been in New Mexico
law.
8. To sum the matter up and give
Mr.. Ferguson credit for everything he
accomplished: He got himself into a
position where he became the laughing
stock Of the whole house.
Now, dear Democrats who have made
80 many claims for Mr.. Fergusson's
legislative feats, and dear