Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1911-11-06
TARIFF EXPERTS
HARD At WORK

Tariff Board will make a report to
\ the President on the cotton and WOOL
en- schedules early In December. The
report will follow the general lines
laid down by the board in its report
on the pulp-wood and paper schedule
sent to Congress when the Canadian
reciprocity bill was before that body.
and 1t will be full and comprehensive
as to details of every item on cotton
and wool contained In the tariff law.
At the present time, one hundred and
fourteen persons are working on these
reports, about equally divided between
field experts and the office force, some
of the former having been in the
Argentine, Australia, Great Britain,
France. Germany and even New Zea-
land after facts. o.,
In endeavoring to get at the rela-
tive cost of production at home and
abroad for the manufacture of ilen-
teal or almost similar products In
the cotton and wool industries, the
Tariff Board has had to resort to an
extensive line of Investigations In Or
der to avoid leaving out any salient
fact. On wool, for instance. II has
made the following Investigations:
The preparation of a glossary de-
filming the various grades of raw wool
and the various processes OF It's manu-
facture, in order to establish n uni
form standard for the guidance Of all
concerned.
i Th. .v,I 40, Ia. ltt... No,
of samples, both of raw wool and
manufactured cloths. nearly fifty of
the latter being necessary to cover
the field. '''
An investigation of the wool-pro-
ducing industry, To ascertain the ac-
ftnpl cost Of production This inyesti-
cation was pursued not pply ip nearly
Ft%enty States' Or the Union. 'b,it In the
Argentine. Australia, New Zealand
and elsewhere.
An Investigation of the cost of man
ufacturing the different grades Of
wooden cloths, pursued In the wooden
mills of the, United States and In Great
Britain, France. Germany. Belgium
and elsewhere. l.'
An investigation Of the cost of
ready-made clothing, both mems and
women's, generally conducted both at
home and abroad.
| An investigation of the cost OF lnak-
ing carpets containing wool.
An investigation of the cost of max
Ing knit goods containing wool
An actual analysis, chemical end
otherwise. of the contents of wooden
goods sold on the American markets,
for the fixing OF standards. i. T.
| An investigation of the relative eff
ficiency of American and foreign ;.5pr
and machinery. ''1'. gig
Work OF Compiling Now Under Way.
All Of these Investigations have
been practically completed by the
Tariff Board. and the work OF COM
piling the data Is now under way.
The difficulties Of gathering the data
may be readily understood In the case
of raw wool. when 1t Ii realized that
the board found 1t necessary to diff
ferentiate between the Eastern pro-
ducers of wool. where the raising OF
sheep is incidental with other agri-
cultural pursuits. and the raising Of
sheep In the West, where 1t il u
genuine industry. Furthermore, II
had to prepare a special schedule be-
cause some of the wool producers In
the West grazed their sheep on for
est reserves. while others could not;
and special item had to be put In
the schedule to cover the loss of sheen
from the depredations of wild AMI
mails.
In the United States the investIga-
lions on raw wool began In the East
ern States last fall, and the experts
have since followed the Western sheep
from Texas into Montana and Wyo-
ming. Lack of Uniformity in cost
keeping among the producers made
this investigation substantially u field
of original research for the experts.
Most of the experts, both In wool and
cotton, have been retired manufac-
turers or professors In textile col
/ leges and schools. Expert account
ants have assisted them regularly In
the field,
Owing to the fact that there is no
tariff duty on raw cotton, the inyesti-
cations In that branch have been
mostly confined to the mills.