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Show H ! The Wool Question. I- s I At tho hearing of tho Ways and M J Heang c.ommitlo on the wool question H . . Dolcgato Catron of Now Mexico, 3aid H that under, the MoKinley law his terri- H tory had produeed some 10,000,0(30 Hh pounds of wool per year. Under the H present lnw, the production hsa de- H creased, as had the piicc. Tho decrease Hi j w in tho latter item was about 11 cents Jr - .per pound. H( J. W. Smith of Lnyton, Utah, presi- 1 'dent of the woolgrowers' association, H" .stated that what Delrgato Cnl run said m of bis condition in New Moxico applied K , .to hi3 state. What the woolgrowers of H VUtah wanted was a fixed tariff, ulso'u 1 'specific duty on wool. lH i i m |