Mr. MORRILL. I am sorry the Gentfrom Pennsylvania has joined with the Philis tines to make have c with the bill. This is a large item. They are manufactured by machinery. If we begin here we must exempt dog churns, mohandles, wash boards, and all sorts of wooden warc. There will be no stopping place if we once begin on a field so extensive. Mr.WASHBURN, of Massachusetts. Under the present tax law pail and tub ears and ban dles have been loaded down with taxation. The manufacturer of pail ears pays a tax of 5%. The manufacturer of pail handles pays a tax of 5%. The manufacturer of tub ears and handles pays a tax of 5%. The manufacturer also ays a tax upon the hoop iron placed around them. He pays a tax upon the wire. He pays a tax of 20 cents a gallon upon the benziue which is use. He pays a tax upon the aint which is used. He pays a tax of from 5 to 10%. upon some ten or a dozen different articles which go to make up these pails and tubs. The consequence is that these articles which go into every family in the country cost today more than double what they did 3 years a o. I wish to call to the attention of my Iiends from the West, who have exempted the manufacture of threshin and mowing machines, which is also carrie on in my district, that it pays a larger%. than the manufacture of these articles. More than 1/2 of the manufacturers of wooden ware have failed during the past few years because they could not endure the tax. You have to pay now 3 dollars when you could before buy as many as you wanted for one dollar and a half. Now, what I am going to say is this, that in voting upon this bill as we have passed over it, our friends have said we will place a tax of 5%. on the manufacture of leather and then when the leather is manufactured into boots and shoes, we will levy an additional tax of two%. Now, here is an article which is needed by every man and woman in the land, no matter how poor they inn be. It is one of the necessaries of life, on yet my western friends join in placing a tax of 7%. on this necessary article which every individual has to use. But when you come to reapers and mowers and hing machines, which the rich only can use ou vote against imposing a tax. & ere the hammer fell.] he question was taken on Mr. Srsvnirss amendment to the amendment, and it was agreed to. The question recurred on Mr. MoaaILLs amendment as amended.