Mr. MORRILL. Let me say that so far as I am concerned, Iain entirely indifferent as to what the committee shall decide to do with this bill; but before the committee shall vote upon it, I desire to call the attention of the committee to the bill itself, for by the remarks of the Gentfrom Ohio, [Mr. Souns exqjand by the remarks of mv collcaugue on the COmWays&Means. [Mr. Coxxi.i.Ve.l I perceive that there is awide. a very wide difference of opinion as to the scope of the hill. “1 e have already passed upon the 1st section of the bill, and that, as I said before, when the bill was 1st under discussion, is the only portion of it which relates to an reciprocal legislation with Canada, except telast portion of the hill, where we obtain favors exclusively from them. All the rest of the bill is general legislation, applicable to the whole country and now, if we shall defeat this bill, I say to gentlemen they have got these same revisions item by item to go through with in tile general tariff bill, and all the labor we have expended on this bill will be lost. Iapee], therefore, to the committee that they shall not lose the labor already bestowed, an which we will inevitably have to go through with again when the same subject comes up. I do not object to any amount of dut which may be put on any article in this bill: as the dut has already been raised on many articles, an it applies as much to France, Germany, and South America as to the Provinces. It is an utter mistake to suppose that this bill is a reciprocit treat, or is to take the place of that treaty. but it has become necessary to legislate upon this subject in consequence of the approaching termination of the treaty, which includes many articles which have been greatly neglected for the last ten years, and the provisions in regard to them will remain as they are unless we pass this bill. For instance, until we can get up a tariff, all animals will come in free, and so will various other articles. The duty on lumber is anom alous, being as much on planed as on rough lumber and yet when we come to the latter part of the bill we come to sections by which provision is made to give the Provinces the ree navigation of Lake Michigan, provided we have in return the navigation of the StLaw rence and their canals. Wepropose to let them transport their articles across our territory if they will let ourrwestern people take their prod ucts across Canadian territory. I conceive that these are important provisions, and I hope the committee will not ignore them in any caprice.