Mr. SHERMAN. I shall detain the Senate but a moment, and that to correct what I think is a misapprehension in regard to the extent of this business. My friendfrom NewYork says that the importation during the last year was 2,400,000 gallons. It is true it was represented to the ComFinance that during the last year the importation of oil was 2,400,000 gallons'; but it is proper to say that previous to the last year no importations of oil to any considerable amount were made into this country. I have before me the table of the importations of the year 1865, and the amount of oils of this kind brought into the country during the fiscal year 1865 was only 50,000 gallons, and under the present tariff oils would not be brought here unless there was a vacuum in the market, as there was during the last year. There was an unnatural trade, and it would not be renewed. Probably oils would not under the present tariff be brought into this country to compete with our own. Now, if I can get the attention of the Senate, I will try to give them the facts, because I think there is no conflict of interest in regard to this matter. We import from India about 1,300,000 bushels of linseed and rape seed. It yields about 2 gallons and a quart of oil to the bushel. The present duty is about ten and a half cents on the seed, after deducting the drawback, and 23 cents a gallon on oil, making a discrimination in favor of the crusher of the India flaxseed in the city of NewYork of about 40 cents a bushel. If the seed is brought into the country in the form of seed the duty is ten and a half cents per bushel; and if the same seed is brought in the form of oil the duty on it, according to the present tariff, is about 51 cents; that is, as one bushel yields 2 gallons and a uart of oil, the duty on the oil in the seed, at the rate of 23 cents a gallon, will be equivalent to about 51 cents; so that the result of the present law is a discrimination in favor of the crusher of the oil equivalent to 40 cents a bushel, which is about the cost of the whole manufacture. There was great complaint in the western States where this linseed is produced, mainly in Ohio and Indiana, I am told, against this discrimination; and it was also complained although that is rectified in the present bill that while all the cake made from either domestic or foreign seed is exported and sent to England, that which was made from the India seed had a drawback, and if they were lying side by side in warehouse in NewYork the cake made from the India seed was worth a considerable sum more than that made from the American seed, because on the one a draw back was given, and on the other it was not. That, however, has been corrected in this bill. The duty as it now stands in the Senate bill is 16 cents on a bushel of seed and 23 cents on a gallon of oil. That is a discrimination in favor of the crusher in NewYork amounting to about 40 cents on a bushel of seed. I think that is too much. Whether we look at this question as a question of commerce, a question of revenue, or a question of protection it is too large a discrimination in favor of an industry which yields to the Government of the U.S. no profit whatever. Not one cent of profit is gained unless it is in the mere carrying trade, and that is done partly in American and partly in foreign vessels.