Show READING OF PAPERS 4 One on the Skirting Clause and 4 Another on Sheep Scab The paper on Skirting Clause by Hon George H Wallace of Santa Fe I I Territorial Secretary of New Mexico was reatl by Secretary Markham as the New Mexico Legislature opens Monday and Mr Wallace can not be here The paper dwelt on the skirting clause ontalned In section 350 sched lileI of the Dingley bill and was prepared pre-pared in Boston In 189C Its adoption J I was fought In the Fiftyfourth Con I ercss by the late Judge Lawrence but to no purpose After 4 citing the sched IUlci Mr Wallace aSked What In the 1 name of common sense Is thc duty on flannels We can r never believe any woolgrower wrote that schedule and It iKJiot credible that a member of the Ways and Means committee The wrote it average per cent of duties levied on waolens and wQrsterls Is 128 per cent I IC we use the customhouse valuation ns a base The Fiftythird I Congress reduced Lo their present plex torn the com conslomerate compound duties on l sections woolei and wOItJtedB but tim wool were continued as they were I reported rom the House Our friend the enemy said The woolgrower has I wool 11 Cents Ilerpound Inotectlon on his and I yet they knew t the wool j rower would nol receive thc full bene fit or that duty because as one of them I said L We I never Intended to give Mm I n cents duty on the whole fleece they Inserted the skirting clause anti from the Iowa of 1890 by which mSrt t than half of the duly 11 evaded The lLw 13 irsotI on the Wn T1 condition of wool I as It is i when shorn from unwashed I sheen from biookwnnhed nhcop and I i I protired wool nm rho cyt Ion haL hr n r I nenlcd again and again until llt Is hardly more than > a bundle of contradictions contra-dictions The language of the proviso is such that no violation oC the lawcan of skirted be placed as Importation wool In 1S90 wan In violation of law no one will testify that he Knows anything any-thing about it and of course there is norecord of such things This throws open the door for Just what the Importer Im-porter may be pleated to undertake There Is not an expert In the custom house who can tell the difference between be-tween skirted and sorted wool So the shrinkage of Imported wool Is reduced to a point where it Is possible to pUt the wool on the cards without further cleaning This Is Importing wool practically scoured at a duty of 11 cents per pound and reduces our protection In that instance to 2 23 per pound In the grease and our fine wool is quoted in our marketsat cents below the importing im-porting point We can not sit down and meekly I submit to the burden of this Imposition Imposi-tion but the important question for us Is When shall this be done Let us prepare to succeed when wo make the effort Frank Hapenbarth of Idaho followed with a talk on the Inspection of sheep His remarks were confined to the scab In sheep the evils of which all sheep men he said were anxious to avoid He related experiences in inspection with State cOunty and Government ofllccri and claimed that the latter only were reliable The local officers he said were either too lax or employed too much red tape and were generally Incompetent In-competent He related how six Inspectors Inspec-tors had been asked for and four inspections in-spections made In passing a herd through Idaho Into Montana He then offered a resolution to the effect that the association recommend that the Inspection of sheep be turned over to the general Government under certain restricted regulations The convention then took a recess till 1CO oclock |