Mr. SHERMAN. It is so small as hardly to be worth taking into account. It is the interest of the U.S., under the present tariff law, to have the oil brought over, because if the oil is brought we get 51 cents on the product of a bushel of seed in gold revenue, while if that same oil is brought over in the form of seed all the U.S. gets is ten and a half cents; so that this is a discrimination against revenue, and it is the interest of the U.S. to import it in the form of linseed oil rather than in the form of lin seed. And this protection is given to a manufacture which does not add anything to the wealth of the country, but simply expresses the juice from the seed raised in India and sends the residuum to England. It is true that in the process it gives employment to our com: merce, and if this trade was entirely broken up it would destroy that much commerce; but at the same time it must be remembered that if the American seed was used instead the same amount of money would be paid for transporting that from the place of production to the place of consumption, so that internal commerce would be benefited in the one case while external commerce might be injured. But it seems to me that this matter might be settled upon a fair and just basis. The HoRep after a long discussion, because this brought in conflict in the House the same interests that are exhibited here, finally settled upon the rate of 30 cents a bushel on seed and 30 cents a gallon on oil. The Senfrom Maine seems to speak of that as an injustice to the American manufacturer; but in fact it is a discrimination to the amount of 37 and a half cents a gal long in favor of the American manufacturer. Why? If the oil be brought here it would pay 30 cents a gallon, while if the seed be i.here it would pay but 30 cents a bushel; and that bushel of seed, producing 2 gallons and a quart of oil, would give to the crusher the benefit of the duty on one gallon and a quart of oil, which is equivalent to 37 and a half conts a bushi. it seems to me this is enough. These gentlemen say it is not enough to sustain their business. I have no doubt that if the duty on the seed was put at the rate fixed by my colleague, 23 cents, and a small addition, say 30 cents put on the oil, you would protect every interest of the crusher largely, and you would not materially diminish the employment of our vessels in this trade. This is not a matter which involves any great principle, but it is a matter of detail which involves a pretty large interest, because the amount of seed brought into the country aver ages pretty uniformly over a million bushels. amount produced in the country, as near as we can get at it from the statements of the persons in the trade, is a little over that, although there is some discrepancy between the crushers in the East and the crushers in the West in regard to it, I suppose the domestic o is probably a little in excess of the foreign importation.