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Show BRIEF IB FILED BY THE WOOLOEOWTEB8 WASHINGTON. Jan. M. Assuming as s foregone conclusion that the house ways and means committee will report ithr" a free wool bill or one carrying h atnsll ad valorem duty, the western woolxrowcrs may not present any oral testimony at the hearlna. but will content themaslvea with a brief filed Haoretarr MoClure of the National Wool-with Wool-with the committee. compiled by itftiwers association. Tha brief calla at-i at-i ant Ion to the condition of the wool-srowlnc wool-srowlnc Industry followlna the free wool evperlmants of the Cleveland sdmlnlatrs-t sdmlnlatrs-t ton and the rapid Improvement which followed the restoration of the wool dutv. Fear of a reduction of the wool tariff 1aa caused a derressed htininees for 1911. Canada, with climate and sjeneral conditions con-ditions favoring wool production, has Iti-scticall-y no wool-arowlna buslneas bs-i bs-i suae of no protet1on. The brief demands. In behalf of the sheepmen, a spe-lflr duty of not leas than IS cnts a pound based on the scoured content ss the only competitive tsrlff under which the woolarowers of the country ran do business, snd appeal to the rommlttea to remember that part of the Baltimore platform which declared that no legitimate Industry should be Injured. |