Wool, Salt, Lumber, And Copper. The

Democratie ways and means committee intends to place them on tbe free list at one Bwoop. Not an-y gradual rednetion, toot an immediate change from high duty to no duty. Evidently the Demotratic members don't know what duty is Ir the house of representaties passes the tariffbill as it comes from the ways and means committee, they will precipítate a very pretty free trade fight. Michigan is willing to take her share of public debt reduction, but she doesn't like tobe jumped upon with both feet. The most radical change possible is propoeed in four of her great industries,- lumber, Balt, wool, and copper. Congrkssman E. P. Au-bn, when intrviewed by a Free Press correspondent relative to the free trade bill intfoduced by the ways and means committee, said : " I fiball vote against that bill today, tomorrow and forever. As fer as Michigan is concerned it is a deluuion and a fraud. It strikes our industries cruelly and places Michigan in theclass of second and third-class statee, like those from which the majority of tke wáys and meanB committee come. Hiose men, while honest, are too proTincial to grasp the interests of a great tonntry. It would be a calamity if the bill passed in its present shape. I feel that the party wliip will be brought to Wear on the tucuibere sufficiently strong to put it through. At the same time I feel that a great many Democrats know ihat their best interesta are against the Wil. I favoï reform in the tariff, but I do not believa in the annihilation of Michigan interests."