Show FREE WOOL SPRINGER proposed reduction in the duties now imposed on woolen manufactures washington feb IO 10 there has been A it substantial agreement by the wool special committee of odthe tile democratic majority of the ways and means committee on oil the provisions ions of the wool bill the changes change made in fit the bill drafted by springer are no not I 1 formally made up but very substantial reductions are made in ili the duties on woo woolen ten manufactures proofed oed by springers bill ad valorem valoree duties on oil woolen manufactures of all kinds including cloths claths dress goods carpets a and d all other wool articles imported under the mckinley imported ported law and arid ii N which tach rates were left unchanged lp c na by the springer bill have been gl byll cut down w whenever ene v c r in fit excess of 40 per cent and the average rate of duty proposed by the new bill on oil woolen goods is ii about 5 per cent below the uniform rate of 40 per cent fixed by the mills bill under the a agreement agreement wool is made free as proposed by athe the springer bill all duties on oil woolen ma manufactures where 40 per cent or less under the existing ea law are unchanged where more than 40 per cent the they are reduced to that rate so blat that no woolen duties will be higher than the mills rate and those on the cheap er grades of goods will be less Und under erthe the I 1 mckinley I 1 inley law the duties range from 30 to CO 60 per cent so there is a reduction of 20 per cent made from the highest rate now im imposed p cd and the average rate is brought down don to 35 per cent on sh oli oddies and waste alie agreement adopts the springer rate rate of 30 per cent against the arese prese present nt rate of 30 cents per pound all compensatory duties of course are baken taken off as raw wool is made made free that BO so the present r t per pound and per yard duties will 9 be abolished b if the bill becomes a law and only the ad valorem valoree duties retained members of the committee say that the wool bill will be the principal measure reported p P arted and that an examination of its provisions v 1 0 will show not only that no step b backward a e k w ard has been taken in tariff reform but that a step in advance of considerable importance has been taken and that on the wool schedule regarded by all tariff reformers as the key to the protective system the reductions are made greater than those proposed by the democrats two years ago |