Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Chairman, I propose to occupy the attention of the House for a minute or 2 before asking the committee to rise to close this debate. I he proposition embodied in the amendment of the committee was a fair one. I agree with the Gentfrom Maine that an adealorem duty is in most in stances a fraud and decetion, butitwill not do to apply the same adva rem duty where the article varies so much in value as lumber. There are some sorts of pine lumber broughtin from Canada and the Provinces that are of no greater value than the hemlock and spruce. I say, therefore, that it is monstrous that we should impose the same duty upon that class of lumber which we impose upon the higher or finer classes of pine lumber. Then, again, there are some qualities of pine lumber that vary in value from 20 to 60 and even to 75 dollars per 1,000 feet. Now, on that class of lumber it is no hardship at all to pay 3 dollars 1,000and that, I suppose, is a class that is produced in the main in the district of my friendfrom Pennsylvania. It is certainly a class of lumber produced largely in Michigan and then, in reply to the suggestion of the Gentfrom Maine, that this will all be computed at one rate, it is enough to say that people run the risk of forfeiting their whole cargoes when they undervalue them. I do not think there is any greater dishonesty among the lumbermen than others; but we shall have as fair an administration of the revenue laws when applied to lumber as to anything else. n relation to the value of the lumber that is imported from the Canadas, it varies. The average value of all we received in 1859 was 8 dollars per 1,000; in 1851 it was 7 dollars; in 1857 it was 11 dollars; and in 1804 and 186 5 it was ten dollars. Now the rate which I propose here amounts to at least 20%. on the lowest average, and very litt e less than that on that which is higher. If gentlemen will direct their attention to the subject, they will find that the amendment submitted by me at 1st to the amendment of the Gentfrom Maine is one that ought to be adopted. I now move that the committee rise for the purpose of closin debate on this section; amendments to be in order. The motion was agreed to. So the committee rose; and the Speaker having resumed the chair, Mr. Isomsou. reporte that the ComWhole on the state of the Union had had the Union generall under consideration, and particularly the bil of the House (No. 337) regulating trade with the British North American possessions, and had come to no resolution thereon.