Mr. WASHBURN, ofh assachusetts. I wish to call the attention of the House to some sta tistics. Some were given by the Gentfrom Wisconsin, [Mr. Pawn] I have some here coming from the internalrevenue Dept, which I think will not be disputed. The number of cigars manufactured under a graduated scale, similar to the one introduced by the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. Sensse xd that is, under the law which was passed 2 years a 0, was 530, 401, 902. Under that graduated se a e the revenue derived was $2, 667, 405 19. Last year, under the specific duty of ten dollars, the whole number of cigars manufactured was 258, 086, 763. It will be no ticed that that is less than half the number manufactured 2 years ago. But the revenue derived last year from less than half the quantity manufactured the year before was 2, 580, 867 63. In a word, to sum it all up, members of the House will see that less than half the quantity produced an equal amount of revenue under this specific act. Now, I wish to state this to show that what I said when I was up before today was correct. No person in this House, probably, believes that a less number of cigars were smoked during the est year than the year before. That a far ess number was smoked 2 years ago than were used previous to any tax, no one will deny. But that the number smoked has decreased during the past year, when the tax was simply ten dollars 1,000, no one will maintain. How, then, do you account for the discrepancy that less than 1/2 the quantity of cigars have paid the duty? Simply from the fact that such has been your tariff that a great amount of cigars used in this country have come in under a duty of ten dollars 1,000, making the tariff correspond to the excise tax. Accordingly, about half the cigars used during the past year have been manufactured abroad and imported into this country. Well, the result has been this: that the raisers of tobacco not, only in the West, but also in the Connecticut valley, have been unableto sell their tobacco to the manufacturer. When they go to him and ask him to purchase their tobacco the manufacturer in NewYork says, “No, we can import cigars at a less price than we can purchase your tobacco and pay the tax.” Why? Because the tariffduty costs about the same as the excise tax, and cigars can be modest a less costin foreign countries. Accordingly, the imported cigars take the lead in the market. But although we have manufactured half the quantity we have received the same amount of revenue as we had under the old law. Now, what is the remedy for this evil? It is under the tariff and here is a point upon which we shall not be divided by any sectional interest. When the question comes up in regard to the tariff, if there is a manufacture that is confined to NewEngland, Pennsylvania, or any other particular section, the question is forced upon us as a sectional one, and it is objected that we are building up one section at the expense of another. I rejorce to know that this is a question in which every iortion of the West as well as NewEngland, lennsylvauia, and NewYork is interested. I doubt not we will unite together on this question, and that the tariff will be fixed as it should be, and we shall all agree at least on one point, namely, that ifthe community will use tobacco, if they will smoke and chew, let them use our own productions, let them use those we raise on (Eur own soil, whether in the West or in the t ast. One word further. If the tax is to be altered, instead of being 40%. advalorem, as my colleague [Mr. HOOIER] proposes by his amendment, if you are going to get a revenue it ought not ttrbe more than 20%. 1 Just look at the tax on smoking tobacco. The amendment which has been adopted is ten cents a pound. Now, the man who raises tobacco can sell it for smoking tobacco the same quaiity which he has to pay 4 dollars a pound for if it is manufactured into cigars, and pay his ten cents a pound. Now, I wish to call the attention of every member of the House to this fact, that those who use this article when they can get it by payingten or 20 cents a pound and use it in this manner, are not going to pay from 2 to 4 dollars a pound manufactured into cigars. Here the hammer fell.