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...president appointed Messrs. Morton, Scott and Furber as a committee. Messrs. Scott, Holden, and Brackett were appointed a committee to decide on the advisability of the senate-meeting scheme. The debate of the evening then ensued. The question was, Resolved, "That the removal of duties on raw wool would benefit the woollen manufacturers of the United States...
...White, Sp., opened the debate for the affirmative with a few irrelevant definitions of the different kinds of wool and of the variations in duty upon washed wool, wool in grease, clean wool, and also a few figures relating to its importation. The high duty on imported wool must be a gain to a few wool growers, but it is a loss to the manufacturers and the people at large. The cheaper the raw material, the cheaper the product...
...negative, gave a few pertinent facts concerning the Atlanta mills which were very successful under a high tariff but upon a reduction were forced to close. The speaker drew a picture of the sufferings of the woolgrowers in case of a repeal of the tariff on raw wool, and said that suffering could not be a benefit to anybody, least of all to manufacturers...
Question: "Resolved, That the removal of duties on raw wool would benefit the woolen manufacturers of the United States...
Question: "Resolved, That the removal of duties on raw wool would benefit the woolen manufacturers of the United States...