Mr. MORRILL. The writer goes:on “Thus woolen coatings, the cost of which is $108 a yard, are to costly fabrics, be raised 24%., while the gold price of which is $240, are raisedonly 11%.” The testimony is, I believe I have not heard it controverted here that this class of manufacturers cannot carry on their business with this discrimination. There is, I believe, but one manufacturer in my own State who makes these high grades of woolen cloths. That is pretty extensive, and is perhaps equal to any in the country. I have a communication from the agent of that establishment. I ought to say that he has not been here and I have not seen here any man from my State rePresenting any interest while this tariff bill has been under consideration or before. This gentleman writes me that so far as his mill is concerned he cannot run it under this tariff bill as it stands. Putting these 2 facts together, I submit whether the Senate will not see that the justice, fitness, and propriety of the thing is to adopt the amendment of the Senfrom Massachusetts, and put the high. of manufactured woolens on an equal oting with the lower, Mr. SHERMAN. I wish simply to call at tention to one point. The amendment of ‘the Senfrom Massachusetts is entirely decep tive, I think, though he does not intend it to be so. The amendment proposes to levy on cloths valued at one dollar or less per. pound 45, cents, per pound, and, in addition thereto, 35%. advalorem, and the Senator says this is precisely what the committee reported. So it is; but I ask him how ouch cloth of any kind is there manufactured that is worth only one dollar a pound? There is not any. I have here the tables prepared by the manufacturers showing that all the cloths they make are worth more than a dollar a pound. Our knowledge of the cost of wool and the number of pounds of it necessary to make a pound of cloth would tell us that. The table before me of the foreign cost as furnished by the manufacturers shows that one yard of the average weight and quality of cassimeres, a coarse product weighing 9 and 33 /100ths ounces, costs 93 and 70/100ths cents abroad. As a matter of course, if 9 and 33 /100ths ounces of that cassimere cost 93 and 70 /100ths cents a pound of 16 ounces would cost about a dollar and a half.