Mr. FRELINGHUYSEN. In reference to this little article which I have named, one establishment during the years 1863, 1864, and 1865 paid $80,000 to the Government in the way of taxes. One establishment pays out in wages $50,000 a month. What. has got to do with this question of zinc, or what the relations of the 2 subjects are, I am not aware. And in reference to this whole tariff bill, to which allusion has been made, it is not a question of political economy for us to discuss at all, in my apprehension; it is just a question of necessity; that is all there is of it. e have. to have a gold revenue to pay our debt. he only possible source to wid: we can look for it is our tariff income; and the gentlemen who have framed this bill assure the Senate and assure the country that this bill will give us a larger gold income with a smaller importation of goods; and I believe it. That is the assurance given by the committee, and I believe it. Then, further, we must tax the manufacturer, because we have got the interest of the debt to i. The manufacturer cannot pay the tax unless he is protected in his manufactures. The manufacturer must live as becomes a freeman and a citizen of this country, and we must have a duty on goods imported; we must make the foreign manufacturer pay a tribute into our Treasury equal to the difference between the living of the laborer here and the living of the pauper of Europe. It is a matter of necessity. It is said that the consumer will have to pay more for his goods. I do not know that the consumer will have to pay any more for the goods that he uses than he would have to pay in taxes if you relieved the manufacturer from his taxation. At all events, by the imposition of these duties a home market is created, and every man who is engaged in labor has the benefitof that home market, and those who are not engaged in labor, by the appreciated wealth of the country in the increase of their property have the benefit of this tariff. As to commerce, commerce is promoted by this tariff. Let there be a uniform tariff in this country, one that does not vary from year to year, and we shall have manufactures that will supply and command the whole market of the East, with our railroad across the continent and our steamers on the Pacific ocean. For us to throw away the growing market of this country to foreigners, to take the very life blood out of this young Republic and transfuse it into the arteries of the old kingdoms of Europe, would be an enormity. It seems to me that we should place ourselves in the class of those who forget their own household. I hope that this bill will pass. I hope that it will be perfected. The whole country are indebted to the laborious attention that the committee and commissioner have given to this bill; but at the same time, as a matter of course, in some of its details it is capable of being improved; and on this question of spelter foringots of zinc, disconnected from nickel, I hope the amendment will be adopted.