Mr. KELLEY. The gentleman never saw an American soldier clothed in American woven shoddy such as he described. We send our rags to England where they are torn into wool and woven and we buy them back again. The ragged soldiers of our early volunteer army were clothed in English shoddy cloth. The grand and well appointed armies that were reviewed at the close of the war were clad in American made cloth. But I tell the gentleman that the western manufacturers will never diversify their woolen fabrics until they learn to work up their own old rags. So lbngas they gather up and export their woolen rags, to be bought back again in cloth, they cannot diver sify their fabrics. The gentleman cries “shoddy, ” and would exclude an element of more than 20 branches of manufacturc; an essential element; in some threcfi%., in others 5, and in none more than 15. until you reach the range of dog blankets and other things which are professedly shoddy. In many branches of manufacture you use shoddy alone. Your felt hats you cannot make without shoddy., And we are, as I have said, the only manufacturing people on the face of the globe that allow their woolen rags to be exported. I agree that there should be a duty on shoddy, on mango, and on flocks, for they are manufactured articles and involve labor. I deny that there should be a duty on woolen rags. We export them while we want them more largely than the peable of other countries. The production of s oddy alone can give us, as I said before, and as the chair man of the committee has well stated, an essential element of embellished papers. These old ra s grace the elegant saloons of this country an of Europe. Gentlemen do not understand the facts of the case. Because we export old rags and import shoddy cloths they insist upon it that we must forego1,000 advantages which science has deduced from them as raw mate rial. I ask that in the final action of the committee they will let this section stand as it is in regard to “shoddy, mungo, waste, and flocks, ” but strike out woolen rags, and for this simple reason, that the presence of that provision in the bill proclaims us a nation so ignorant of the elements of manufactures that we prohibit the importation of that which France, Belgium, Prussia, and England will not permit to be exorted from their limitS.R.MORRILL. I move that the committee rise for the purpose of terminating debate upon this section. The motion was agreed to. So the committee rose; and the Speaker havin resumed the chair, Mr. SCOI ‘Il ZLD‘re porte that the ComWhole on the state of the Union had, according to order, had under consideration bill of the House No. 718 to provide increased revenue from imports, and for other purposes, and had come to no resolution thereon. ENROLLED niLLs SIGNED.