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Show PROTEST AGAINST COTTON SCHED VLB K By International News Service. WASHINGTON, July 23. Senator O'Gorman today laid before the senate tho petition of nearly 100 leading distributors dis-tributors of cotton cloths, handling practically prac-tically the entire output of domestic cotton cot-ton fabric, protesting against the enactment enact-ment Into law of "unequal" provisions covering cotton textiles and deploring the "discrimination that subjects the cotton trade to these needless hardships." The petitioners allege that cheap silk goods were granted two or three times as- much protection as corresponding grades of cotton goods. "Eighty per cent of the cotton produced pro-duced In the United States is manufactured manufac-tured In s)x states In New England and the south," the petition recites. " The petitioners claim to control the distribution distri-bution of goods valued at $42S,00O,O0O wholesale, or twice that much retail. This is tho production of 2000 mills employing em-ploying 600,000 persons, representing an Investment of ?800,000,000. They complain com-plain that scant courtesy has been extended ex-tended to their overtures m tho past and that an attitude of aloofness has marked tho tariff makers. The resolution voicing the protests of the cotton mill men against these alleged "Inequalities and incongruities" in the cotton schedule, quotes the Democratic platform, plcdlng tho party "not to injure in-jure or destroy legitimate industry. They insist that the low rates in tho bill would Injure a legitimate industry." Tho spoclfh; Complaint made is "failure "fail-ure to provide higher, adequate ratoa for cotton textiles made of combed yarn than If made of ordinary yarns: or higher adequate rates for finished plain wovon or figured clothes than fov gray; putting put-ting rales for JacqiJards on the same basis as for ordinary cloths, and actually omitting Jacquarda in the senate amendments.' |