Mr. WILLEY. These gentlemen inform me that this duty of 50%. advalorem would amount to about 5 cents per pound. I have been so informed, and so believe from my information. I simply desire to make this statement to the Senate, hoping that the ComFinance, and the chairman especially, may be better advised of what are really the facts in the case than I am. I desire to state again that I offer this amendment upon the statements that have been made to me by glass manufacturers, by gentlemen engaged in the business, who have assured me that the business of manufacturing flint glass must go down unless they receive protection to the amount which I have indicated in the amendment. While I am up, sir, I will make all the remarks I have to make in regard to the other amendment, in line 38 of the same section, on page 80. I am told that the manufacturers of cut glass will not be able to sustain themselves under the clause in the bill as it now stands. They inform me that really they would be entitled, in order to derive anything like a fair protection upon this class of manufactures, to 60%, adralorem; but in conferring with them I have induced them to agree that I shall put it at the lowest possible sum which they could stand, and have offered the amendment to strike out 40 and insert 50. I understand that the principal part of the cut glass which comes to this country is made in Germany, where labor is exceedingly low, and that it is impossible to compete with German labor, which is so low, in the manufacture of this article without protection to the extent of at least 40%. advalorem. It is unnecessary to mention that theingredient entering into the value of cut glass consists in the labor, and that that fact brings American labor directly in competition with foreign labor; and the foreign labor in Germany, where this article is principally manufactured, as I understand, being so much cheaper than it is in this country, it becomes absolutely necessary, if we would sustain our own domestic industry, to have the protection asked by these gentlemen engaged in the manufacture of this article. I have thus made, as briefly as I could, the statement in regard to this manufacture; and Ihope that the protection they ask will meet with the concurrence of the ComFinance.