Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-03-18

for more contention than any other
and during it's consideration there
was much criticism of the methods by
which tariff bills are framed. While
William Whitman. of Boston, repre-
senting the National Wool manufac-
turers was on the stand, Representa-
tive Clark, OF Missouri, placed in the
record a pamphlet which purported to
inform the ways and means commit
tee how tariff laws are framed" The
name of the author of the pamphlet
was given as Frank P. Bennett, of
Boston.
"The place you get in your work is
not in the house of representatives or
in the ways and means committee,
but is in the enate. isn't it" was one
A number of southern lunberment al
of the characteristic questions asked
by Champ Clark. of Mr. Whitman.
The Wooden Schedules.
The wool growers of Ohio and the
western states declared emphatically
| to the committee that further protec-
ton must be given the industry or the
wool growing business would be en-
| tirely wiped out. The wooden manu-
facturers also asked that the present
| duties at least be retained on their
| product. There We're several supple
| mentary hearings on the wool sched-
| ule, all u WHICH ttlulCdleu tlldl lilS
various branches of the industry differ
as to the proper classification and
differentials to be established in the
tariff. The carpet manufacturers de-
clared that the classification in the
present tariff is unjust to their in
dustry and similar claims were made
bv other manufacturers. There was
much testimony which shed consider
able light on the methods employed in
the manufacture of wooden fabrics, in
dicating that much so-called pure wool
clothing contains considerable shoddy
and rags. This called forth the sug
gestion from Representative Clark
that there should be a pure clothing
law, similar in its object to the pure
food law.
SUGAR and Fruits.
The admission from the Philippines
free of duty of 100000 tons of sugar
was the first proposition on which the
ways and means committee agreed
This action was taken by the COM
mittee following a conference with
Mr.. Taft, The statement by Ed
win F. Atkins, of Boston, that there
was great danger of an insurrection
| in Cuba If the tariff on sugar is not
reduced and the arguments made by
Claus r. Spreckles. of New York, II
| favor of reduction in the duty were
tne STRIKING features OF Tie Hearings
on the sugar schedule. Secretary OF
War Wright appeared before the com
mittee in favor of free sugar from the
Philippines. He declared that the So
called sugar trust was understood tc
cwn 81 per cent of the stock of the
beet sugar refineries and that that Is
possibly the reason why the beet sugar
industry has not grown in this coun-
try. The Louisiana cane sugar grow
ers claimed that the price to the con.
sumner of sugar and the price paid tt
the farmer for his product is fixed by
the sugar trust"
The California fruit growers were
arrayed against the importers, and
one argument advanced by the latter
for reduced duties on lemons was tina
the recent earthquake in Sicily has re.
suited in a scarcity Of labor and the
destruction of lemon groves. Senator
Hale appeared before the committed
to ask that tapioca flour be specially
provided for in the bill Similar re
quests We're made on numerous ar
tit.es The committee found consider
J able information at it's disposal in