Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-03
So SUIT As EXHIBIT
Pleader for Tariff on Wool APP
pears in Cheap Garb as
Argument
WOOL MEN ASK PROTECTION
Insist Industry Will Be Ruined if Re-
duction in Duty is Made-champ
Clark Grows Sarcastic in His Cues
tons and comments-sheep Breeders
Appear Before Committee.

Washington Dec. 3.--"Dont look
nice this morning." The voice was nor
that Of demure little maiden but OF
"trncle" Horace Justice of Philadelphia.
The scene was the room of the comlnat-
tee on ways and means and Uncle
Horace was addressing that sedale
body, seated upon the high tribunal.
under the royal canopy.
The contrast was striking. The rich,
elaborate furnishings, the like of when
IS not to be found anywhere, not even
in the supreme court of the United
States, looked down with the commit
tee upon "Uncle" Horace gyrating like
whirling dervish.
Don't / look nice?" he repeated Tor
the benefit of Chairman Payne, who IS
fast growing deaf. He then explained
that he referred to his clothes and re-
lated that on the way to the hearing
he had dropped into hand-me-doWn
establishment and exchanged $l2 for
the ready. made suit of clothes he mad
on.
1t was an object lesson. He was be-
fore the committee to argue for the
protection Of wool and wanted to show
that the present duty is not burden.
Champ Clark Sarcastic.
Champ Clark, who is mighty sarcas-
tic these days, wanted to know whether
the clothes could not be bought for $l0
or even IS were the duty removed and
asked Bourke Cochran and other good
dressers OF the committee why they
bought their clothes In London. He
wamed to know whether it was for the
name If the maker or because of
difference in price.
you can't reduce the duty on wool
as it stands without destroying the
industry" he told the committee. "The
industry is now fairly profitable"
AS an argument in favor of the re-
tention of the present duty on wool
General Grosvenor said that under the
low rate of duty imposed on wool by
the Wilson bill the number of sheep
raised in one county of Ohio decreased
from $4,000 to $4,000 within four years.
Representative Clark secured the adj
mission that this reduction was. at
least in part, due to the increased val
ue Of lan7 in Ohio.
Breeders for Protection.
The sheep breeders of New York
Avon. N. Y. He claimed that-the pres
ent tariff en- wool is the lowest under
which the sheep industry can survive.
Archboli Moore, Il woolgrower of
West Virginia, and p. G. Johnson, rep
resenting the Idaho woolgrowers, both
spoke against reduction
William Whitman. of Boston. repre-
senting the national wool manufacture
ers and the American Association of
Wooden and Worsted Manufacturers,
spoke against any tariff agitation as
being more harmful in its effect than
could be compensated for by any
changes the wooden industry may de-
sire.
Mr.. Clark questioned Mr.. Whitman
with regard to the part he played in
the framing of the Wilson and Dingley
tariff bills, securing the admission that
Mr.. Whitman had been very active
in suggesting the wording Of various
paragraphs.
"The place you get in your work
is not in the house of representatives
or in the ways and means committee,
but it is in' the senate, isn't it?" in
quired Mr.. Clark.
NO." replied Mr.. Whitman, "but
know what you have before you. It
is an anonymous pamphlet
"How Tariff is Made"
The pamphlet to which he referred
purported to inform the committee as
to chow tariff laws are framed and
chow an exorbitant duty upon wool
tops was concealed in the Dingley law
by the cunning manipulations of S. H.
d. North and William Whitman" It
claimed that Mr.. North, now the direc-
tor of the census, was engaged as a
clerk for the senate finance commit
tee while he was secretary of the Ma
tional Association of Wool Manufac.
turers, Of which Mr.. Whitman. it as
serts, was the principal factor The
booklet also stated that Mr.. North
was presented with $4,000 for his serv-
ices while he was with the committee
by Mr. Whitman and his associates.
Mr. Whitman told the committee that
the $4,000 was given North because his
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