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Show WOOL FUTURES" HAVE BEEN ASKED FOR BY THE SHEEP MEN OF TEXAS. Matters in the Senate and Uonse Today-Notes Today-Notes From the Committee llooms rrcshtentiai Appointments and Other Washington Notes. Washington, Feb. 13. The house com. mittee on agriculture waited half au hour today for President l.avotisso of the New Orleans cotton exchange to put in an ap. pcarauee and then adjourned the anti-option hearing until Monday. Vice-President (Joss of the New York cotton cot-ton exchange while tho committee was Waiting, i. the exchange had sometime go received request from the Wool growers' grow-ers' association of Texas taking the exchange ex-change to deal in wool the same as it did in The request said woolgrowers were in the hand of a few men and wanted wool "futures" dealt in on the exchange bo as to give t'lem a wider market He mentioned this as another indication of the advantage system in dealing in futures and as evidence also that the pro. dueers were not all of them at all events clamoring (or the abolition of the system of "futures" on the theory that it i detrimental to them. |