Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 July 1888 — WOOL ON THE FREE LIST. [ARTICLE]

WOOL ON THE FREE LIST.

The Hou>e So Decides fojr a Vot < < f 180 to >oß—Tariff Discussion on he Wool O'ause. - In the House Monday the tariff discussion in committee of the whole was resumed. The wool schedulfe’w&s taken up. Mr. Taylor |Ohio) argued that should wool be placed on the free list, sugar should be placed there also, for it is equally just to the wool-gro.wer, who is a consumer of sugar, to grant him free sugar as it is sugar monopolists to enjoy free wool. He assured the committee that if this tariff goes into effect the result tHU be dire disaster to fine wool raising in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. Taylor asserted that the President did not know why he advised wool to be placed on the free list any more than did Dickens’s fat boy know why he went to sleep so often. j

Mr. Adams then deprecated the placing of wool upon the free list. Mr. Jackson, opposing free wool, said that manufacturers did not wish the placing of wool on the free list in Pennsylvania, Ohio or West Virginia. We can raise fine grades of wool in this country, excelling in this production. It has taken nearly one hundred years to develop this industry from coarse, poor wool, to the present fine grade produced, and why strike this industry down at a single stroke, which it has taken such a long time to cultivate.

Mr. Williams read an extract from the resolutions adopted by the Wool Growers’ Association, of Texas, opposing Mill’s “free wool” proposition and arraigning him as imperiling the wool industries of the country. Mr. Anderson, of lowa, favored free wool, and, although in favor of free sugar and rice, he though the bill was very fairly drawn up. Mr. Kelly replied to Scott’s remarks delivered on Saturday. His reply was a reiteration of statements hitherto made, and the debate was carried on by other members. 4

The motion wus made by Wilkins (Ohio)., Democrat, to strike out the free wool clause in the tariff bill and was (Voted down—l2o to 102—Wilkins, Sowder and Foran, all Democrats, voting with the Republicans to strike it out. Indianapolis had two murders, Sunday. Wm. Maples, a farmer living eight miles south of the city, became intoxicated 'and quarrelled with George Farrand, a neighbor. Maples attacked Farrand with a piece of fence rail, and refusing to halt was shot dead by Farrand. The other tragedy is somewhat mysterious. About seven o’clock Frank Earnshaw, Jacob Broderick, Robert Hartpense and an unknown man were standing on South street, near Pogue’s Run, and Dunn came by. They are Republicans. Dunn is a Democrat. According to their story Dunn began abusing Harrison, and Earnshaw protested that it was Sunday and he didn’t want to talk politics. This angered Dunn, who told Earnshaw that he could lick him or any man in the crowd, to which Hartpense replied: “Can you, you—,” accompanying the same with an irritating clearing of his throat, as if expressing contempt. Then Dunn struck him and was about to repeat the blow when Hartpense leveled a revolver and pulled the trigger, the shot striking Dunn in the forhead and penetrating the brain. Both murderers are in jail.

W. J. Purdy, one of the oldest route agents on the Bee Line, was pitched forward from his seatonA reaper' at his farm at Hagerstown and frightfully cut. Before his horses could be stopped both his legs were severed frem the body. He is still alive. Mr. Purdy fills the position of head clerk on the Bee Line between Indianapolis and Cleveland. 'He is fifty years old and has a family.