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Show LA FOLLETIE WOULD CUT VOOLDUTIES Offers Amendments Aimed Chiefly at Woolens and Cheaper Wools. HEAVIEST CUT IN WOOLEN MANUFACTURES Wisconsin Senator ThinKs Duties Proposed Higher Than Needed. WASHINGTON, July 27. in ottering otter-ing amendmenta proposing reductions In the duties In woolen goods Senator L Toilette of Wisconsin, In speech before the senate today took the position posi-tion that these redactions. If adopted, would compensate the farmers at least in. paxLf ortie Josses tneywlU suffer as a result of free trade In agricultural products with Canada. "They will," the senator continued, "in some measure relieve all of the people of tbe United States who have been made to pay tribute to the woolen tnist, long the pampered favorite of tbe tariff law. Two years ago, at the time we were considering the present tariff act, which left schedule K prae ticallr nnchanged. 1 proposed certain sasendments. "These amendmente I have modified and offer as an amendment to the peed ing bill. I believe that tbe duties proposed pro-posed by me on manufactured woolen cloth are greater than are necessary to protect American manufacturers from Fu ropes n competition. However, beer leg in mind that thia ia but a tempo rarr measure, to be followed, as I hope, bv a more thorough goi" revision, and with,. the purpose of meeting the views of a meioritv of the senate to the end that some reduction may he promptly secured. I shall r.ffer for consideration changes ia the woolen schedule. The effect of the amendmenta to schedule . K. which I now propose, are aa follows: fol-lows: ' Kates Amendmenta Propose. "PntT on clothing wool, 40 per cent; esrpet wools. 10 per eenti tope, 45 per eent varn, SO per cent; cerpets. 40 per eeat; on cloths and all other maaufae-turea maaufae-turea composed entirely of wool or having hav-ing woo) as the component material of chief raise, 60 per cent. "The present average duty on rew wool, as shown by the report on commerce com-merce and aaviga'tion of the bureau of statistics .for 1910 ia a fraction lees than 4A per cent. In proposipg a duty of 40 per cent ad valorem I make no wide departure from the dutiea paid to dav on raw wooia on the average. . It will do away, however, with tha gross inequalitiea and discrimiaatione under - which the nsers of the cheaper wools, which go to make op the poor man's clothing, have So labor under the present pres-ent eperifie duties. "A straight ad valorem duty of 40 per cent will do away with prohibitive rates and will reduce the ratee on wools which manuacturera of woolen goods peed today for tha purpose of blending with our own wooia. Correct Injustice. "Tbe ad valorem duty will also da sway with the present injustice of snb-jeeting snb-jeeting wools that eontaia three-fourths of their weight in grease and dirt to the same duty aa the line, expensive wools, with a shrinkage of any SO per cent. "Passing now to the proposed duties on intermediate aad tmahed products, the principle underlving them ie that in all eaara compensating dntv equivalent equiv-alent to the duty on raw wools shall he imposed in addition to protective duty which ie to cover the difference ia the eoet of production at home and abroad in the manufactured article." Senator La Follette said that the proposed amendmenta of dutiea of aaufactnrers of wool would result ia a reduction from 8U.S8 per cent ed valorem seder the preaent law to 56.02 per cent, or more than J3 II per cent nd valorem and more than 17 per cent below the present rata. The change for . tha wool schedule as a whole would represent a reduction from aa average ad valorem of 61.74 per eent under the S resent law to S6.24 per eent or a reaction re-action of 23 v per eent ad valorem and more than 36 per eeat below the ' present rate. , Speaking of the effect these reductions reduc-tions would have spaa tbe revenue, the epeaker aaid: Imports Likely to Increase. "A reduction of duty may result in an increase of importation which will not only offset the reduction in rats, but bring in a larger revenue than tbe old higher rate did. Of course this is aot always the eaae, aince tbe menu-facto menu-facto rers should reduee their price to the consumer and thereby prevent ia creased importatioaa from abroad. What usually happens and what would probably happen if the propoeed amendments amend-ments were edopted would be a combination com-bination of both eonditiona and it ia impossible to forecast what the ultimate ulti-mate effect open the revenue would be. "It ie a matter of common anowl. edge to all who have traveled abroad, as well as to. those who have atudied the conditions in basin ess, that woolen goods are sold in thia eonntrv general I r at double the price at which they can be purchased ia England. This would justify the aasnmptioa that the dutv eaters fully into tha price to the consumer." |