| Show WOOL GROWERS Wltncs Examined Before tlj Home Committee of Ways and Means REPORT THE AGRICULTURA DEPARTMtnT Bold Conspiracy Jo Munler thc Family of the Czar of Russia Dj Telegraph to the XEwa TIlE WOOL GROWERS Evidence Olven Before the Ifou e CoDimlllre Vnterdiir WASIIJXGTOX Jan IDefote the House committee of ways am means Hon William Lawrence of Ohio made a statement as ilie representative tent to the National l G nl Uoff Wool Growers Association lie said the wool growers generally be lieve a souud lUc required the imposition of each duty on socallei carpet wool as would enable the American wool growers toprtducc all the wool required for consump tion In tho United States shutting out foreign importations and givIng A r a1 American wool growers the privl lege of supplying tho carpet wool for consumption At the conclusion of his testimony > the committee ad lourned cmml Buyne suggested that in order to save time and give other gentlemen an opportunity to address the com mlttee that Lawrences manuscript b printed without being read To this suggestion Lawrence assented with tbeconditiou that he make n condensed statement orally or what his manuscript contained That course was adopted and Lawrence went on with his remarks He would purposely hesaidomi the tariff speech which he would like to make in Conference to Hit effect and Uiat an adequate duty lnn on wool n n vvu b would not ultimately iucrinM the cost at all because homo compel lion would prevent unreasonable charges while If the protective pel Icy were aictndoned and all such products Imported from abroad the restiltwouM be the Ametican people peo-ple would be at tlie mercy of p clgn TKUSTS AND OORTORATIOSS Carlisle That argument rests on the that home assumption Iome industry would be abandoned Witness Yes the cflVct of the tariff of 1ES3 h been to cut down vastly the number ol our sheep ind with free wool the shep lust would b particularly alan doned in the United State James Dobson a Philadelphia cal t manufacturer denied the correctness of many of Lawrences statements He argued the wool growers of the United States would not and did not produce the quantity quan-tity of carpet wcol used in that in dustry because where they reIn ilM for the fleece of a finewool sheep they would not receive twen sheep Tflve cents for a coarsewool William Whitman of Botton president of the atonal Associa iou of Wool Manufacturers said the prevailing sentiment in that or anlzailon was for a maintenance but not an increase oi the prrcenl Jutlcs They would oppose any attempt empt to restrict the importation ol f i i foreign wool The manufacturers could not produce all the goods necessary for home unless Cry consumption unles they could have foreign wool In i to n question Whitman sail tnt under DO circauistances would free wool enable manufacturers to iiakc an impression OS THE TOREIUX MAIIKITTS lie Uiought that free wool would tlmulate production give mam4 acturera an opportunity to displace lie foreign products now used here but he also thought the eflert on wool would be to diminish the price of wool and consequently discourage discour-age the sheep raiser The moment we begin to take from the wool product pro-duct any given amount of wool the price will be raised and wool become be-come considerably dearer than now T C 7 Search representing the I Manufacturers Club of Philadelphia f Philadel-phia declared himself in harmony with Whitmans views A statement state-ment to a like eOect was made by W 1 Folwell n cloth manufacturer manufac-turer of Philadelphia He announced an-nounced himself in favor of putting high duties on Southern products sugar rice turpentine and peanuts I and of having free whisky and free tobacco He would tax the sugar I hat comes from abroad until we could 1 supply the whole demand our II JohiiT Plummcr of New York aid the country h > cuflcring under he popular prejudice that better clothes can be got abroad than her at the same price He declared there was no country where a man could tl good a suit of clothes States for a little money as In the United KKIIYS ILLNESS The Star says Congressman W D Kelly of Pennsylvania ha robabyappearcd on the floor of the louse for the last time He is suf feting from a virulent cancer in the throat and is too weak to be moved louse from his apartments In the Higgs JCDOB KELLY is slightly improved tonight The throat trouble la not a new development develop-ment a he submitted to a surgical operation for the removal of this growth in ISSo About a week ago the Judge contracted a heavy cold which developed into a very severe case develop catarrh acm lanied by a copious and obstinate larrhoa which resulted In great weakness and a general breaking down of the system CHOI ncroRT The Dmbr report of the D partment of Agriculture contains a detailed statement of estimates of the principal cereals by States In eluding the area product and values The reported area of corn is 78319 6bi acres an increase of two and all a-ll per cent over the acreage of SSS Wheat acreage 33133859 acres two and onetenth per cent greater than the aggregate for lEG The Increase of acreage gives the smaller area in Iowa Nebraska Oregon and Washington and larger breadth in Kansas and Dakota The dairying and meat produc ton have for years been encroaching encroach-ing on wheatgrowlngon theeastcr sitfe of the i spring wheat iL The fur of wheat In Kansas 1 inols and other States occurring rusuit or fromycartoyenrarethe rlt variable meteorologIcal conditions The meterologClI pl at 2 scje 402310 an increase of less than two per cent The yield per acre of corns corn-s very nearly 2 bushel or ono tenth bushels less than the product f 1879 and is the largest rte yield ncolSSO Theproduct as estimated estimat-ed I 211280200 bushels The let yields are west of the Mlssls slppl Iowa taking the first rank in the aggregate produce and yield per se The yield of wheat Is nearly 9 bushels or onetenth of a bushel reatcr than the average yUld per acre The variation from the cue rout expectation of the last dx months is not over one percent Th total product a estimated Is 4SJ pruc The product of oats h TSISISOOO bushels at tho rate of 274 hushels per acre The aggregate of all ilie cereals Is about 440XWOW bushels oral least 53 buShel per capita s THESECISETAKY OF TUB TBEASCRr In a letter Treasurer Houstonsay he I advised that the amount or gold coin In the vaults of the sub treasury a San Francisco Is now In excess of 41000000 and that the total accumulation of all kinds of money in that office I upwards or 60000000 which amount he says J ra greater than tho requirement of thl government for that locality I In order that there may b a better distribution of the assets of the gov eminent he suggests the transfer or about 20000000 In gold coin from the San Francisco office to the New York office on the best obtainable terms say 25 cents per 1000 The details of the transfer are left to the treasurers discretion Duplrary to Thunder the Cz ra rnmllr LONDON Jan 3The arrest or the notorious nihilist leader Pierre Qross at Warsaw h been produc Live of disclosures far more startling ban any of the alarming revcla tlons which have come to the police within the last few days appalling a they have been From letters and documents concealed In his clothing the most damning evidence I obtained against many persons flight In Imperial favorand authority contemplating not the assassination of the Czar alone but tho murder of the entire reigning family a well Already many conspirators have been taken Into custody and those till at large are under espionage or being tracked by tho relentless olice officers Several implicated were apprehended while attempting to leave the country |
