People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — Meaning of the Word “Wool.” [ARTICLE]

Meaning of the Word “Wool.”

Washington. Oct. 10. Secretary’ Carlisle has received from Acting- At ; torney General Maxwell an opinion in which he holds the word “wool” as used in the woolen schedule of the new tariff law refers to the hair of the sheep only, and that new and lower duties on goods made of the hair of other animals went into effect on the signing of the act. The opinion further says that the phrase “manufacturers of wool” in that paragraph is not applicable to articles of which wool, as so defined, although a component material. is not the material of chief value.