Show I THE WOOL SCHEDULE Strong Arguments for the Proiecllon ot the Sheep Business WOOL Ul OU HtS LLl flLIIMKINLLV Au Iiumtrun Lois It I lie Country lnulld by Hie Mllsou lair lh1 say I WASHINGTON Jan GTb lie Inn on the wool schedule briUKht funny farmers and muuufucluiin to the ways and mean ojninilUco item today to-day dayJohn John O Clark of Iho t Washington county Penn i Wool Growers ossocl Stings spoke strongly of the tiloclB the freo wool Clause 01 tile Wilson law which ho declared prostrated the bull nisi ot the United Stages Tboexper intent of free trade had boon a crime The value 01 laud bod derd anJ the Shipment In all patti of I bo country had boo driven from business Bheepraleers asked only a moderate duly hat would enable them to COD Union the business The Democratic member ot the committee probed Ibo witness for sometime some-time Wheeler All alkoj It the clothing for workingmen I bad not ben chesper under free wool to which Clark replied that most 01 the cloth luC old now was shoddy The 1m porllIoo 01 shoddy bad 10cralJ ullder Ibo Iw An hour was given to Judiro Wm Lawrence president ofthu National Wool Growers association to pretont Ibo request ot that body The statement state-ment was an exhaustive review of the wool Industry under different tariff rates during Ibo last half 1 a century The Wlteon law ho declared slopped a third of tile wool growing business and closed ball tile mIlls There bd been no adequate protection on wool since 1370 Lawrence averred that the election of Mr McKinley bad been actions Wished by tLe volts of the wool growers In half a dozen doubtful states who would have voted for Bryan aud free silver hail they not considered protection on wool morn Important loan freo silver II thin nluclluu wan not given there would be a free silver Congress two years b nco aril In four years a free llv r President and Congress The McKinley bill aa It came from Hi autuor bad been moderately protective on wool but the addlllun of n skirting clause and ad valorem rates made it disastrous Under the Wl ton law the number of abeep ol the United elate bodduoteatot thtoix jollliuj jear with it Joe > Alt t S60 00111102711t ifllolaleUllsllM UQ11 dial and more accurate flturtii proved tbo less lo tbe wool growers through the Wilson rates to have beau 5170 700 000 Mutton sheep wblch should be called In this country were being Imported from Canaan The Schedule asked by the wool growers alEotlatlou win 12 cents B pound on all merino wool 2 1 cent ou washed and 39 cents on scoured Auitrallau Unwashed wool I to be considered aa washed Ou account Its superior lightness They amid the Australian bad au advantage over Ibo Boutb American losing comparatively com-paratively litlla weight In waebinii The dropping of the skirting clausa wan askod I ai to I secure Its advantages parts 01 Australian wool Imporlel amounted tu only half the ileeor To do away with this clause It la I said I would give employment to five tbou Baud men ID the country |