Mr. EDMUNDS. I hope this section will not be stricken out. The objection of the Senfrom Ohio that it sud enly changes the rule so that importers cannot be advised ofit, would apply to every change of the law. It is no more sudden than any other change, and it certainly provides, whatl have always regarded as the proper doctrine of tariffs where you proceed upon valuation, that you proceed upon the home valuation, These costs and charges of transportation are elements which enter into the value of the property when it reaches the point where revenue is to be derived from it, when it reaches the point where it comes in competition with home productions. Therefore, in my judgment, whatever is a component element of the value of the property when it reaches the place of consumption ought to be, as it is in truth and in fact, a legal part of that value for the imposition of duties. Now, it is well known to those engaged in the munutiictnre and in the production and sale of wool, forillustration, thatSouth American week; are imported into the markets of the U.S., andalivayshavebeon, based upon the foreign cost, and by frauds and intermixtures offoreign substances, the value)er pound is reduced below the amount fixed in the law for the higher dut, whereas if you added the cost and charges an transportation the real value and expense of the product would be nearly or quite doubled when it reaches this market. Then it comes in under the low duty, and the moment it is in the foreign substances are separated and you have a lil"li grade of wool, or a common grade of woo which comes in competition with your own productions and defrauds the revenue at the same time. Therefore, it does certainly seem to me that it is certainly better to subject the importer to these little incmiveniences and they surely are such than it is to defraud the revenue and to injure that class of our citizens who are engaged in the production of this article and many other articles which in a similar way enter into competition with those of foreign production. I only speak of wool as one illus tration, which is somewhat more familiar to me from being called to consider it, than many others which could be suggested by other gentlemen. I be c the Senate will keep the section in the bill.)