Mr. HARDING, of Illinois. I move to strike out the word “rectilicrs.” I notice in a.subsequent portion of this bill a direct blow at the only prosperous manufacturing business we ever have had in the West. We are situ ated far from market; the products of our soil are abundant in the forms of rye and corn; and we have been able heretofore to compete l successfully in the business of manufacturing I alcohol with ourtriends in the East who are so generally superior in manufactures. But if this paragraph shall pass that interest in the West will be destroyed. Now, I wish to call the attention of the House. to the unfairness of this aragraph. I say what I mean; I use the wor “unfairness” intentionally. It is known to the country that the business of manufacturing alcohol is performed by 2 modes. The mode which has been successfully performed in the West is the redist illation carried on by continued processes in the same establishment in which the spirit is manufactured. By continued redistillation it is rectified to the standard of alcohol. Now this bill, infamous in this particular, the vile brood of alocal interest have no reference of course to the chairman of the ComWays and litmus, [Mr. Moanrnt] for he evidently has been imposed upon this bill provides that alcohol and ) spirits shall not be made in the same establishment. Why? There is no other reason that can be given than that it is because we can manufacture alcohol out of the cheap corn of the West, in the same establishment where spirits is made, at such a rate that no man who buys his spirits in NewYork or NewEngland can compete with us and therefore it is that obstacles must be put in the way of the successful manufacture of alcohol in the West and how is that done? This bill requires our distiller to take his spirits out of the whisky distillery, put it in barrels, put it into head, then take it out of bond, and put it into another establishment where it is to be made into alcohol and when I asked why this was done, one of the heads of bureau informed me that it was to enable the eastern manufacturer to compete with the western manufacturer. Now here in this instance the man is not allowed to produce alcohol in any particular quantity by rectifying, or if he does he has to pay this additional tax for every few hundred gallons that are rectified.