Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1890 — WOOL-GROWERS AND THE TARIFF. [ARTICLE]

WOOL-GROWERS AND THE TARIFF.

The national wool-growers’ convention met at Galveston, Tex., A. E. Shepard presiding. The following resolutions were adopted: Resolved, That amendments to the McKinley bill should be made by the Senate which shall provide substantially that all foreign wools having any cross or admixture of merino or English blood shall be classified so as to pay duties imposed upon Class 1 or Class 2 wools, according to the nature of the cross or admixture, and that the Secretary of the Treasury be required to remove all samples now in cnstom houses of the United States for the purpose of classifying foreign wools for duty, substituting new samples in accordance with the principles above stated. Resolved, That Paragraph 383 of the McKinley bill be amended by striking out! the proviso contained therein, and that Paragraph 6088 be changed by striking out the words “Russian camel.” ' Resolved, That we earnestly recommend that any further changes that may be made in the McKinley bill shall be only such as will givetotho wool-growers of the United States protection on wool as grown by American flock-masters. Resolved, That we protest emphatically against any law that will in terms or by implication permit wool to be imported in in any other than its natural condition as shormfrom the sheep, except as washed or scoured [n unbroken fleeces.