45 HEARINGS BEFORE THE COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES ON SCHEDULE K-WOOL, AND MANU- JANUARY 27 AND 28, 1913 ε WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1913e COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS. OSCAR W. UNDERWOOD, Alabama, Chairman. CHOICE B. RANDELL, Texas. HENRY T. RAINEY, Illinois. LINCOLN DIXON, Indiana. CORDELL HULL, Tennessee. WINFIELD S. HAMMOND, Minnesota. п ANDREW J. PETERS, Massachusetts. SAMUEL W. MCCALL, Massachusetts. DANIEL C. ROPER, Clerk. 3 1170, 23/11/49 SCHEDULE K-WOOL AND MANUFACTURES OF. COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS, January 27 and 28, 1913. The committee met at 10 o'clock a. m., Hon. Oscar W. Underwood in the chair. Present with the chairman: Messrs. Harrison, Kitchin, James, Rainey, Dixon, Hull, Hammond, Peters, Palmer, Payne, Hill, Fordney, and Longworth. The CHAIRMAN. The committee will come to order. The first witness is Mr. Frank P. Bennett. Before Mr. Bennett opens his remarks, I want to state that the committee started out to make a time schedule for the witnesses. We have found that we can not comply with that schedule on account of cross-examination by the committee. We have allowed 10 minutes to each witness, which does not count the time the committee itself takes in cross-examination. We desire that each witness should have a chance to be heard, and the committee reserves the right to extend the time if they desire to do so. PARAGRAPH 360. All wools, hair of the camel, goat, alpaca, and other like animals shall be divided, for the purpose of fixing the duties to be charged thereon, into the three following classes: PARAGRAPH 361. Class one-that is to say, merino, mestiza, metz, or metis wools, or other wools of Merino blood, immediate or remote, Down clothing wools, and wools of like character with any of the preceding, including Bagdad wool, China lamb's wool, Castel Branco, Adrianople skin wool or butcher's wool, and such as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Buenos Aires, New Zealand, Australia, Cape of Good Hope, Russia, Great Britain, Canada, Egypt, Morocco, and elsewhere, and all wools not hereinafter included in classes two and three. PARAGRAPH 362. Class two-that is to say, Leicester, Cotswold, Lincolnshire, Down combing wools, Canada long wools, or other like combing wools of English blood, and usually known by the terms herein used, and also hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals. PARAGRAPH 363. Class three that is to say, Donskoi, native South American, Cordova, Valparaiso, native Smyrna, Russian camel's hair, and all such wools of like character as have been heretofore usually imported into the United States from Turkey, Greece, Syria, and elsewhere, excepting improved wools hereinafter provided for. PARAGRAPH 364. The standard samples of all wools which are now or may be hereafter deposited in the principal customhouses of the United States, under the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, shall be the standards for the classification of wools under this act, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to renew these standards and to make such additions to them from time to time as may be required, and he shall cause to be deposited like standards in other customhouses of the United States when they may be needed. PARAGRAPH 365. PARAGRAPHS 360-369-RAW WOOL. Whenever wools of class three shall have been improved by the admixture of Merino or English blood, from their present character as represented by the standard samples now or hereafter to be deposited in the principal customhouses of the United States, such improved wools shall be classified for duty either as class one or as class two, as the case may be. PARAGRAPH 366. The duty on wools of the first class which shall be imported washed shall be twice the amount of the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed; and the duty on wools of the first and second classes which shall be imported scoured shall be three times the duty to which they would be subjected if imported unwashed. The duty on wools of the third class, if imported in condition for use in carding or spinning into yarns, or which shall not contain more than eight per centum of dirt or other foreign substance, shall be three times the duty to which they would otherwise be subjected. PARAGRAPH 367. Unwashed wools shall be considered such a shall have been shorn from the sheep without any cleansing; that is, in their natural condition. Washed wools shall be considered such as have been washed with water only on the sheep's back, or on the skin. Wools of the first and second classes washed in any other manner than on the sheep's back or on the skin shall be considered as scoured wool. PARAGRAPH 368. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals, of class one and class two, which shall be imported in any other than ordinary condition, or which has been sorted or increased in value by the rejection of any part of the original fleece, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject: Provided, That skirted wools as imported in eighteen hundred and ninety and prior thereto are hereby excepted. The duty upon wool of the sheep or hair of the camel, Angora goat, alpaca, and other like animals of any class which shall be changed in its character or condition for the purpose of evading the duty, or which shall be reduced in value by the admixture of dirt or any other foreign substance, shall be twice the duty to which it would be otherwise subject. When the duty assessed upon any wool equals three times or more that which would be assessed if said wool was imported unwashed, the duty shall not be doubled on account of the wool being sorted. If any bale or package of wool or hair specified in this act invoiced or entered as of any specified class, or claimed by the importer to be dutiable as of any specified class, shall contain any wool or hair subject to a higher rate of duty than the class so specified, the whole bale or package shall be subject to the highest rate of duty chargeable on wool of the class subject to such higher rate of duty, and if any bale or package be claimed by the importer to be shoddy, mungo, flocks, wool, hair, or other material of any class specified in this act, and such bale contain any admixture of any one or more of said materials, or of any other material, the whole bale or package shall be subject to duty at the highest rate imposed upon any article in said bale or package. PARAGRAPH 369. The duty upon all wools and hair of the first class shall be eleven cents per pound, and upon all wools or hair of the second class twelve cents per pound. RAW WOOL. TESTIMONY OF FRANK P. BENNETT, EDITOR OF THE WOOL AND COTTON REPORTER, BOSTON, MASS. Mr. BENNETT. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen, I do not think I have condensed my remarks into a 10-minute space, but I will endeavor to do so. The CHAIRMAN. If you appear for this paper we will give you a little more time. How much time do you desire? |