Mr. MORRILL. I trust the motion of the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. Srsvsss] will not prevail. I think the amendments the committee have already adopted will remove all the just or legitimate complaints of vine growers in this country. We have provided that wine shall not be taxed until it passes from the hands of the grape growers, if they sell it in the form of juice or must. lfit shall be sold when it reaches the stage when it is called wine, or when it has passed from the condition of juice or must it is to be taxed. Certainly there is no article upon which we can more properly levy a tax. We are giving this interest a great amount of encouragement. We are levying extraordinary duties upon the sale of beer, and upon spirits of all descriptions, and I am perfectly wilAing, for one, that we shall levy such import uties as shall give the growers of grages and manufacturers of wines any amount O encouragement in the home market for the sale of their products. But it does seem to me that, when we levy a tax of 50 cents or a dollar upon a gallon of foreign wine, this small pittance of 5 cents a gallon can be legitimately and properly borne by the makers of wine in our own country. I think, Mr. Chairman, that we have met in the proposition as it now stands all just complaints on this subject; and I may say that we have no corn laints whatever except from California. In Ohio, a State producing probably half as much wine as California, no objection is made even to the existing form of the tax. There are others of the western States which, I an pose, are destined to become large producers o wines from grapes. Now, sir, it strikes me that there are no men who can be more properly subjected to a tax than those who buy this juice and must, and manufacture it, selling the wine for the high prices which we know they demand and obtain throughout the country. I know that the wines made in California and in other parts of our own country are very pure, and are much more desirable in many respects than foreign wines now introduced into the country at a low rate upon an advalorem duty. For one, I am willing to give our native wine all the protection that it requires; but in order that we may do so. I trust that no gentleman will come here and claim thatthis article should be entirely exempt from hearing any of our present great burden of taxation. To be sure, we received last year only about 34,000 dollars from this source. But I suppose that the receipts of the Treasury this year from this source will be very largely increased. I have no doubt that this year the amount will be at least double the sum received last year; and I expect that within a year or 2 a very large revenue will be derived from this source. think we should not now set, the precedent that wine manufactured in this country shall be entirely exempt from tax so long as we impose a heavy tax upon all other liquors and beverages.