Show in D C feb 0 two rival conventions ef tailors are in eion here one represents the merchant tailors national exchange competed ot high priced and fashionable honable fas tailors and the national tailors association whose members do not consider them high priced even if they are fashionable io from the to ibe exchange by president maryin it as developed that I 1 ho past year hao beau the most prosperous in the history oi thirty three percent and tha member ip of the local exchanges forty per cant t ie important matters te ue considered aud acted apoi ia gayb ii d ideana whereby thy importation of foreign mada clothing the pay ment of anty can be prevented the trade has been injured by the fact thit european tourists are continually cringing over suits made in england and them off as wearing apparel already in use the mckinley law provides that gyene coming into this country may bring in free only such articles of wearing ap perril as are necessary for hia comfort during the tour this law it is claimed was violated by sisty per cent of the sixty thousand american tourists who crossed the atlantic last year quite number of these brought over as many as twenty suits of claths cloths apiece and were in having them passed free the exchange will appoint a special committee to call the attention of congress to this matter with the view of so amending the mckinley McKin loy bill as to that only two suits may be passed free of duty |