Mr. FESSENDEN. Perhaps it would have been surprising if the Senator had done so under the circumstances, he being a western man. Now, with reference to the motion made by the Senfrom Indiana, as I presume it will come u again, Iproose simply to say aword. We really had some doubt whether the cultivation of sorghum and implice had not reached such a point thatthere ought to be a tax levied upon the machinery used in that production as well as upon other things. The article itself is protected from the fact that all other sugars pay a heavy import duty; and whether this machinery could not pay a slight duty was a question. We could see no reason, the manufacture having advanced so fartis it has, having been so much enlarged as it has. why the machincry for the manufacture should not be taxed just like the machinery for the manufuct tire of anything else. They put up their inills and they have machinery. Where the thing itself is protected by a heavy discriminating duty in its favor, and has increased and enlarged itself so muchthrough all the section of the country whereit is raised, it seemed to us to be enough protection without making any exception in over of the machinery of the mills that were usedto manufacture it. That was the simple reasonupon which we acted with reference to that matter, and the reason holds good in my mind now. I statedbefore the argument. asI understood it, in favor of toxin reapers and mowers. the Senate is of a different opinion, I shall be entirely content with that opinion when expressed; but I really cannot see why articles of thisdescription, manufactures so very large and so very extensive used for the production, to he sure, of the necessaries of life in one particular, and perhaps those things that are most necessary to the support of life, should not be taxed moderatel compared with other articles of the same escription, especially when, as a general rule, they are in the hands of largeestablishments. I believe it is a very notorious fact that proprietors of the patents for these machines all get very rich.