other importations, with the view to protecting this country against the transmission of injurious fungi and vegetable diseases, Respectfully submitted. American National Live Stock Association, T. W. Tomlinson, secretary, Denver, Colo.; S. H. Cowan, attorney, Fort Worth, Tex.; members of executive committee: J. H. Nations, El Paso, Tex.; L. F. Wilson, Kansas City, Mo.; John MacBain, Trinidad, Colo. Cattle Raisers' Association of Texas, Ike T. Pryor, vice president, San Antonio, Tex.; Ed C. Lasater, vice president, Falfurrias, Tex.; S. H. Cowan, attorney, Fort Worth, Tex. National Wool Growers' Association, S. W. McClure, secretary, Salt Lake City, Utah; T. C. Dover. J. H. Moyle, Salt Lake City, representing Utah Stock Raisers. Cotton Seed Crushers Association of Texas, J. J. Culbertson, Paris, Tex., member of executive committee. PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO FREE LIST. To be inserted after the word "meats" or at the end of the freelist paragraph pertaining to meats: Provided, That meat and meat-food products brought to the United States must have been prepared at points of production under laws, rules, and regulations which would make the same healthful, wholesome, and fit for human food, substantially as is provided for by the meat-inspection laws of the United States applicable to meatfood products and animals entering interstate commerce, as provided for by the act of June thirthieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the regulations of the Department of Agriculture thereunder; and that until the Secretary of Agriculture shall be satisfied that animals, meat, meat-food products, and premises where produced or handled, shall have been subjected to inspection equivalent to that provided in said act, and that the same is sound, healthful, and fit for human food, the same shall not be permitted to be imported into this country, and the establishments where the same is produced, as a condition preceded to their products being imported into this country, shall submit to such inspection as the Department of Agriculture shall see fit to make, through its agents or otherwise; and that meats and meat-food products imported into the United States shall be admitted only at regular ports of entry designated by the Secretary of Agriculture into establishments under the supervision of the Secretary of Agriculture and subject to the provisions of the act above mentioned and to the inspection of the Department of Agriculture, in the same manner as are the products of slaughtering and meat-packing establishments in the United States slaughtering and packing meats for interstate trade. CANADIAN WOOLEN INDUSTRY SHORT HISTORY OF THE EFFECT OF THE TARIFF UPON THE FROM THE DAILY TRADE RECORD PRESENTED BY MR. SMOOT WASHINGTON CANADIAN WOOLEN INDUSTRY. [From the Daily Trade Record.] TARIFF EFFECT UPON CANADIAN WOOLEN INDUSTRY-WHAT OCCURRED TO WORSTED AND WOOLEN MILLS AFTER THE TARIFF OF 1898 WENT INTO EFFECT-EFFORTS OF CANADIAN MANUFACTURERS TO CHANGE THESE RATES HAVE SO FAR FAILED, ALTHOUGH OUTPUT OF CANADIAN MILLS HAS SINCE BEEN REDUCED TO ABOUT 50 PER CENT OF 1898 PRODUCTION-INFORMATION NOT DISCLOSED BY REPORT OF UNITED STATES TARIFF BOARD, AND OF IMPORTANCE IN VIEW OF PENDING TARIFF CHANGES IN THIS COUNTRY. Beginning with to-day's issue, there appears the first of a series of articles to be presented daily, showing the effect upon the woolen and worsted industry of Canada of the tariff changes which occurred in 1898. The effect of these changes upon the clothing manufacturing industry also will be presented. These articles are the result of a special tour of investigation made by a staff correspondent and cover the manufacturing sections of Ontario, Quebec, and New Brunswick, where are located the bulk of the woolen and worsted manufacturing plants of Canada. There are a number of mills in Canada located elsewhere than in the sections covered, but thorough investigation discloses that these mills are neither of sufficient size nor number to warrant the belief that conditions prevailing in the big manufacturing centers will be different in the more remote and less active manufacturing parts. If anything conditions in the latter sections would show no improvement over prevailing conditions in the more active manufacturing towns. MUCH VALUABLE CANADIAN INFORMATION NOT CONTAINED IN TARIFF BOARD'S REPORT. The effect upon the Canadian industry of the tariff of 1898, which on woolens and worsteds was changed to a flat 35 per cent, giving England a preferential 5 per cent, brought about marked changes in the manufacturing industries. When the United States Tariff Board was preparing its report upon Schedule K considerable information relative to the Canadian situation was obtained; but agents of the board, or those editing the report, apparently failed to realize the importance of such information to the trade, and in consequence the report of the board materially failed to show much if not all of the information important to the American industries in view of the |