Show THE DAYS DOINGS arlnsiEtforo tile Ware and Means I CommIttee Conccrnlny Flax and Tale JUSTICE BREWER TENDERS HIS RESIGNATION Wirings From Berlin Chicago CUT and MateAutborltlrs at Variance By Telegraph to the Ncwa1 SIISCFLLIXEOE9 Inquiry lleforv f lie If ante CommIt tee Jnttlto IIr wrri nnl nUoa WASHINGTON Jan 3ALe hear lug of the ways and means commit Ue today WUl Bright of Newark X J representing the flaidrowr operatives of that tection allied to the Knights of Labor asked that the duty on dressed flax belncrcaged from 5401 90 per ton lIe said the industry this languishIng languish-Ing because of ln ufllcleutprote < tion The cost of dressing a ton of flax In this country In 3d4 while In Europe it b but 35 He asked the 1 addI lIonel duty upon the difference in wages alone Abram liently a twine rpinner asked that lhlll present duties be retained re-tained on Jute thai and maailla He asserted that under the conditions con-ditions that obtained formerly and which could be reproduced with adequate encouragement thu exIstence exIst-ence of a bagging trust would have been Imjiotsible Treasurer Babbitt of the Chelsea jute mills rahl the laborers Amer ican Jute mills are laid mote than twice M much ax in Scotland and from five to ten times as much as in India Tho witness argued In favor of free trade Charles K Pearcu of St Lou I mad a comparIson of the cost of Calcutta and American bagging to show that with Jute butts fire a duty of at least 2 cents per yard up on belatdlnorderto the manufactured maintain product the must dustry in this country and if the present duty 5 per ton Is retained then the duty on the manufactured product must be two and a half cents per yard Ho said the Mills Mil if It had passed would have destroyed every bagging manufactory manufac-tory in the country and probably bankrupted seveneighths of the manufacturers In reirart ti the hemp industry If I it were properly encouraged he had no doubt within three years there would be Instead of 12000 tons as now from 40000 to 50000 tons of hemp raIsed in 8 the United States H L Jicmis of Hernia Co Boston with hU factories In St Louis Minneapolis and Omaha made a plea for adequate rate o f duty on manufactures of juto and free raw Jute AfOOT TO RETIRE The Kavy Department Is Informed that Commander John McOowan Jr commanding the United States steamer Sttatara in the Asiatic station has been retired by the medical board of purveyor None one has jet been selected to succeed him in the command of the vessel I JUSnCE BRKWKR RESIGNS Judge Brewer Uie newly ap pointed Associate Justice of the Supreme Court today handed into the Department Ills resignation ax Circuit Judge He afterward called at Uie White House and paid his rvpecU to the President T1ISY WEBB 31OIHJED The British MinIster has received II petition from Rev I jr Joyner from Holly Spring XC for re dress for injuries received by him ttlf l and wife at the hands of n moh last montli lie says he is I a BritIsh jcctalthough he has been preach logIn North Carolina rincu Ib69 He and his wife were giving relig ious and other instructions to the negroes whIch so Incensed some of the neighbors that they broke Into his houra and arsaulted and mal treated himself and wife He has been unable to get any patlsfuctlon from the local or State authorIties A < BEAT CONTRACT FOR noun Four hundred and forty thousand pounds of flour for the Western In dUn reservations are to be furnished hi c H FnriDS of Arkansas City EnnuI at from S140U 400 per 100 pounds Beeordlog to place of delivery |