Mr. GRIMES. I can only say that this British free trade institution knows what senators to apply to, for it has never applied to me on the subject; it never sends its communications to me. And let me say to the Senator that I was raised as a tariff protection Whig, and I still entertain the same notions in regard to tariffs as those in which I was early educated, and am just as much in favor of a tariff as the Senfrom Ohio is; but I am not in favor of this tariff, nor am I in favor of any tariff except the one that is now upon our statute books, until we can see what may be the operation of our internalrevenue law that we have alreadypassed. Iknownothing about this British Free Trade Lea us. I know there "a Free Trade Leaguein NewYork, of which have heard, and I have seen some publications that have been made by that organization. My mind has not been influenced in the slight est degree by what they have said; nor has it been influenced by another organization gotten u by the iron and coal men of Pennsylvania, whose agent is about these Halls, and has been here since this subject has been under consideration, using his influ'ence with members to induce them to vote for this bill. I do not know '. but that the free trade men have just as inhe rent a right. to organize, make publications, raise money, disseminateinformation, and control public sentiment in congress or out of it, as have the men who are in awor of the passage of such a bill as this. I supposed that any citizens of thigcountry had a right to entertain their own notions upon this or any other subject, and had the right to impress them upon their fellow citizens in any honest and legitimate way. The Senator says thathe wants this tariff bill to pass. How long does the Senator suppose it will remain upon our statute books if we do pass it? Does he not. know that if it is discovered, as I believe it will be, that it is improperly adjusted to our internalrevenue law it Will be repealed and another one substituted for it in December, or when we assemble together again? Is it to the interest of the manufacturers themselves that the tariff law should be changed at. every session of Congress? If Iwere a manufacturer of anything I would im lore this Congress to let this bill rest.where it is, and when we shall have come together again in December and have seen what is the condition of our foreign trade, what is the condition in which the passage of the internalrevenue law has placed) us, and seen, also, what we are going to do in regard to the currency of the countr, then I would come before Congress and as them to pass such a law with a view to having it remain permanently on the statute book, as I would be able to conduct my business under it with some view to permanency. I will tell the Senator that some of the largest manufacturers in this country I know one man, a citizen of Massachusetts, a man ofim mense wealth, a millionaire, the largest portion of whose property is in the coal an iron fields of Pennsylvania and Maryland, who has writ ten to the effect that he does not want this bill to pass, but would prefer that it should be postponed until further consideration can be given to it by Congress; and I say that that, man, in It sends documents here my view, has exercised a wise discretion in desiring it to be postponed. Mr. President, if I have betrayed any unnecessary heat in the course of' this discussion I desire the Senate to remember that this is a question which in my opinion I may be wron"r is vital to the interests of the State that I have the honor in part to represent. I say that the passage of this bill in anything like the shape'in which it is now lying upon your table will be ruine us to the prosperity of Iowa. In view of the considerations that I have presented, in view of the fact that at the best we cannot pass this bill until some time in August, and that all the postponement that I ask is for 3 or 4 months, until we can come together again, when we shall understand the operation of the laws bearing upon the questions of finance that we have already passediii view of all these considerations I do hope that the Senate will a ree to its postponement.