Mr. FOSTER. In connection with this amendment I wish to say a word with regard to a kindred item on the precedingfo. of the bill, the 39th page. Line 51 on that page, as reported by the committee, stood: “On nickel 15%. rem.” The report of the committee has been amended by adding to this line the words “and o cents per pound.” The same argument which the honorable Senfrom NewJersey uses in regard to zinc and spelter is i.as I io to nickel, and it illustrates the effect. There is in this country one establishment for the manufacture of nickel, and only one. The amount of capital invested is some 150 or 200,000 dollars at the outside. Now, there are in the State of Connecticut manufactures of German silver waf e into which nickel enters as a very important part; it is one of the most important metals that goes into the manufacture of that ware, in which more than 3 million dollars of capital are invested. During the past ear those manufacturers paid more than 2 o1,000 dollars of internal taxes to this Government. It is now proposed to make nickel so expensive that those works must stop or do business at a loss; and for what purpose? To build up a manufacturing establishment where less capital is invested than these works are paying to the Government in internalreve nue year by year. Thus, to say nothing of the amount of private individual loss, the Government strikes from its own Treasury a larger amount than the whole amount invested in the nickel works. The same thing is not precisely true of spelter and zinc; but the same principle is in volved. You are building up the manufacture of these as raw materials; no, no, I must beg iptardon for calling them raw materials, because seems now that there is no raw material in this country. The ice, I suppose, is not a raw material; the air, I suppose, is not a raw may terial; certainly we have learned in the course of the debate that iron ores and copper ores which had been previously supposed to be raw materials are not so. But for convenience sake and in popular language I hope to be pardoned for speaking of these as raw mate rials. We are putting a duty which shall enable these that have been previously called raw may terials to be made in this country, and we are striking down all the establishments where they are manufactured. If that is wisdom I shall now learn it for the 1st time.