Mr. DODGE. Mr. Speaker, I have watched the progress of the debate upon this bill in ComWhole with eep interest, and I might have contented myself with simply casting my vote; but coming as I do from a commercial city, I feel bound to state why I vote “fly” upon this bill. Mr. Speaker, brought up in my youth in a village which was the seat of a cotton manufac turing industry, I early learned to sympathize with what was known as the “American sys tem;" and from that day to this I have witnessed a great excitement and predictions of rain to commerce whenever a new tarifl" has been produced; and yet we have continued to prosper under each successive change; for whenever anyone article manufactured here (gamed such a position as to supplant the foreign, some other article was proneed to supply its place in the list of imports, and thus the total amount of importetions from abroad have zone on increasing, until now, under the pres nt tariff which was denounced as prohibitory, We have imported a larger amount the last year than in any previous year. As I have but a few minutes allowed me, I hasten to say that I am impressed with the conviction thatthe commercial interests of the city which I in part represent will be promoted by the prosperity of the agriculture and manufacturing interests, and by the ability of the country, which alone can come from that prosperity, to buy and pay for the vast amounts of ii iports which I am confident, notwithstanding Tflsltariff, will continue to flow to this country. 'i he bill proposes a duty on wool and woolen goods which will undoubtedly stimulate the growth of wool to the general advantage of the country. If the increased duties in time shut out a portion of the coarser woolen fab rics there will be an increased ability of the West and South to purchase largely the finer foreign clothes. The increased duty on flax seed will not only encou e the manufacture of the coarser articles of inen, but will ive a greater ability to purchase the finer articles of linen made abroad. The duty on iron will stimulate the manufacture of rails in the West on the banks of the Mississippi, and thus save the cost of transporting wheat 1200 miles by railroad and then 3,000 miles across the At lantic to purchase rails to build roads in the very vicinity of immense beds of coal and iron, the manufacture of which will create a home market for the wheat. There are many things in the bill which I think should have been amended. The duties on many articles are unnecessarily large, and could have been reduced without any detri rnr nt to the country. I trust they will yet be adjusted in the House. But in view of the state of our finances, and feeling the conviction that the increased tarilf will, notwithstanding the predictions to the contrary, secure us an amount of revenue eqnufto the estimates of the SecyTreasury, I shall vote for the bill. I had hoped that the proposition of the Gentfrom Massachusetts [Mr. Dawns] to recommit the bill, with instructions to the committee to report it at the next session, would be adopted, as itwould have given time for the better adjustment of the bill to the different into eats of the country.