Mr. MORRILL. I have listened with a great deal of patience, I i. trust, during the 9 this bill has been under consideration, with very slight disposition to. in any way in the discussion; but I think I understand the proposition to which an amendment is now moved, and it seems to me so manifestly unjust to an interest which is, in some sense, peculiar to my own State that I can hardly forbear the exPression of the conviction that it would be very unjust if the senate were not to adopt the amendment proposed by the Senfrom Massachusetts. I understand it to be agreed by the members of the ComFinance that the bill as it stands does not give that fair and equal protection to this particular interest, the higher grades of manufactured cloths, that it does to other kindred manufactures. That is a conceded fact. Why not? Nobody suggests, I believe, that this branch of manufactures ought not to be encouraged; nobody suggests that it does not stand upon a footing quite as merito rious, perhaps, as others of a kindred character. Now, what is the reason this should be discriminated against, should not have that propo.rtion of protection that others have? honorable Senfrom Ohio has suggested the only difficulty in the way of it, and that is that it was arranged by the wool growers and the manufacturers generally that a certain rate of duty should be laid on the other fabrics; and it would disturb that arrangement. The 1st answer to that which occurs to me is the fact which has been disclosed here, that it is not pretended that that arrangement is carried out in this bill. The House did not agree to that arrangement, departed from it, and of course we are not bound. But I do not suppose the honorable Senfrom Ohio intends to Press that here as an argument to oppose the sense of the Senate in its purpose to do justice to this interest; but, I repeat, (and I submit it to challenge the attention of thosen. ate,) that it is conceded by the ComFinance that this particular interest has not that fair proportion of protection which is accorded to other interests. I understand that the proportion of protection is not equal to the proportion which is applied to the other protected manufactures.