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Show HILL Iff-. Ill FAVOR OF FRO00L Bat Want Present Doty on Woolen Cloth Main, tained. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S. Protectionists Protection-ists aad tariff roviaioaiata kept up a runniag fight before tha houe wayi and f uiaana committee yeaterday, which vn continued laat Bight. Tha wool tariff waa the Uaue and the manufacturers presented aa almoot unbroken alignment align-ment againat reduction of dutv on woolaa eloth and ready made etotb'ng, though favoring reduction of the duty on raw wool. It waa tha moat strenuous fight made at thia eeeeioa of eougresa againat tha Memoeratie ilaa for revuiou of the dutiaa ia the coming extra eeeeioa. "Your echedul never baa been cut in the memory of living man," augmented aug-mented Repteeentative Palmar of Peon-sylvaaia, Peon-sylvaaia, to A. M. Hufford of Clave lead. Mr. Htafford eouteuded that the tariff could ba reduced la the event the Democratic party choae to take the re-apoaaibilily re-apoaaibilily tor a powblr reductioa of wage of the wool mill employeea. The witneea testified to a per sent cent divideade from hie mill laat Tear aad ka preventative Harriaoa of New York suggested that it waa rather unbecoming unbecom-ing for bim in view of the big profita of the industry to hold out a threat of wage reduction. Advised Caution. Through William Uoldmaa of New York, ita prraideat, the National Aaeo-riatioa Aaeo-riatioa of Clotbiere declared that while free wool waa deairable, a move to put wool aa the free liat waa too revolutionary. revolu-tionary. He aaid the aaaoriatioa In-doreed In-doreed the proposed Demorratie rata of 21 par cent ad valorem on raw wooL f The National Aaaoriation of Mann-facturere. Mann-facturere. comprising 100 of the woolaa milla of the country, through ita tireai-ient, tireai-ient, John P. Wood of Philadelphia, prevented a tentative arhadule of rataa, but Mr. Wood admitted that tha echedule waa approximately the aame aa the nreaent tariff law. Mr. Wood refused to make any apa-i-illfl reeommendation aa to raw wool, though propoeiog the maiutenance ot tbe preeant tariff protection on woolen goorie. He pictured "big problama" confronting the Democrate in attempting attempt-ing to carry out a tariff reductioa plan and.qoeetioB the ability of tha rom-mittee rom-mittee to ao claaaifr the different com-aaaditiea com-aaaditiea aa to apply a rata that would exactly fit each kind of wool. Sailing in Dark. "Then," obeerved Chairman Underwood, Un-derwood, "we have got to aail out in the dark aad try to aava tha patient pa-tient if we raa." Patrick MeGraw of Pittabnrg declared de-clared that wool on tha akin had in-aulHcient in-aulHcient tariff protection and advocated advo-cated a Pr cent differential between wool en and off the akin. Ha objected to the ad valorem baaia. Tha committee ahowed no signa today to-day of changing ita tentative plan , for a revieed woolen echedule along the line of tha Democratic billa of the two previoua aeamona of tbia eon-grace, eon-grace, which provided for 20 per cent d valorem on raw wool and from S8 to 60 per eent on clothe, ready-made clothing and other artielee. |