Mr. BROWN. That may do aas retort; but, sir, if you get the white man into slavery the western farmer paying his tribute to the eastern manufacturer, and continue to clench his fetters and extort from him more and more, as seems to be now proposed, you will not end without violence either. Now, sir, so far as this tariff bill goes, if you were to make it equal in its advantages or disadvantages to all parts of the country, if you were to equalize all these prohibitions, if you were to give anything like equipoise to the different interests in the community, the only result that you could by possibility have from it would be a general inflation of all your values, and such an inflation as would necessarily exclude all the great producing interests of the country from the markets of the world. Your high prices being altogether comparative would benefit nobody in this country, and yet would make it impossible to ship abroad and com. with grain or produce or manufactures in foreign markets. That would be the sum and substance of your whole prohibitory system, for bear in mind it is.duties that are clamored for here today. That, I think, is substantially the operation of the existing tariff; and the Present bill, I think, so far as its duties are higher, will operate still more strongly in the same way with all the producing interests of the country. I think, therefore, that nothing can result from this measure but a more permanent inflation of prices, a reduction of revenue from custom duties, and a still further exclusion of your products from the markets of Europe and Asia. I do not intend, Mr. President, to make any extended remarks on the details of this bill. I simply rise now to enter a protest, in the name of the constituency that I rePresent here, against its passage, as being an unjust and wrongful and detrimental act to them, one in which their interests are sacrificed to benefit those whose interests have long been fostered and protected, who do not require it longer, and who have no right to demand it from them if they did. Sir, the people of my State are looking to this Congress with eager eyes, asking strictest economy in the administration of your Government, and the largest possible reduction in the taxation which is now bearing so heavily upon all their business interests. But, on the contrary, what is it proposed to do? To surrender the revenues Government might derive from customs into the hands of certain large moneyed interests as bonus on their productions for that is what prohibition comes to and by this surrender to preclude the possibility of any important reduction in the internal taxes. I think, Mr. President, when this bill passes and goes to the country loaded down with the extortions practiced in the name and behalf of special interests you will find that its advo cates have not rightly calculated the patience of the people. The?osident protempore. The question is upon the motion of the Senfrom Kentucky that the bill be recommitted to the ComFinance, with the instructions which have been read at the desk, upon which the yeas&nays have been ordered. The Secretary proceeded to call the roll: