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Show GOODING ATTACKS ADMINISTRATION Salt Lake. Jan. 17. Frank R Gooding, former governor of Idaho, furnished some unusually brilliant firew'orks yesterday in the convention of the National Woolgrowers' association asso-ciation by "going to the mat" with the administration tariff bill the bheep commission men, the proposed land lease law, and last, but not least, Secretary Sec-retary of State William Jennings Bryan. Governor Gooding, who was president presi-dent of the la9t wool convention, made his talk after Hugh C. Wood, of Spen cer, Idaho, had opened the attack upon the commission men and called upon A. J. Knollin, eastern vice president pres-ident of the association, to explain on behalf of the commission men the Increased commissicms. The subject sub-ject of increased commissions was brought up at the Thursday afternoon after-noon session, but was passed over without any extended discussion. Mr. Wood declared that it was one of the most important questions to be solved by the woolgrowers and he, with several other prominent wool men, have threatened to take over the marketing themselves in a co-operative concern similar to the fruitgrowers' fruit-growers' exchanges. At the suggestion sugges-tion of Mr. Wood the executive committee com-mittee was requested through President Presi-dent Hagenbarth to investigate the '.yardage, transit feeding and commis sion coets thoroughly with the idea of lowering them where it Is possible. possi-ble. One of the most Important developments devel-opments of the convention has been the tendency to unite in cutting out waste expenditure, modernize and standardize the business and otherwise other-wise eliminate all unnecessary expenditures. ex-penditures. This has been declared necessary bv the woolmen In order to maintain the industry under the new tariff both as to wool and mutton production. nn |