The CHAIRMAN. That is not germane to the ending amendment. Mli. HARDING, of Illinois. I move to strike out the words “when exported.” Iunderstand the effect of this proposition to give this drawback in favor of manufactured goods which are exported is to give a premium to the manufacturers of cotton goods. It holds out an inducement to manufacture cotton goods for exiortation, and will of course increase the manutacture of cotton goods in this country to some extent. If they can make 4 cents by exporting it, or whatever the amount may be, it is to that extent a discrimination in favor of the manufacturer sending his goods to a foreign market. Or he will charge that on the consumers at home. With the heavy tax it on cotton it will not be exported at all. It will amount to 50%. of its cost. The manufacture of cot ton goods will then be done almost entirely in this country, because it will be done 50%. cheaperin this country than in England. It will be sufficient to at it into manufactured goods before exportc. These cunning Gentlemen will manufacture every bale into goods and at the drawback. With the increased rice who gets the money? The manufacturer. e takes the cotton bales and turns them into cotton padding or any thin" else he pleases. That is the effect of this lloill. We will get no revenue. As soon as they get the spindles at work they will turn them into rope or something else for exportstion. The principle upon which the revenue law is passed is violated by this provision. We tax that article which entersinto the consumption of every man, woman, and child, white or black, in the country, and especially the largest portion is used by the poorer classes. The tax is heaviest upon those who wear coarse cotton goods. They must pay this tax, and they almost exclusively, as has been said by the Gentfrom Maine, although those who have the means of paying these taxes are by these means excm ted. The tax will ultimately be extracte from the toiling millions of the country. I protest against indirect taxation of the absolute necessaries of life. My constituents are clothed almost exclusively in cotton goods. The use some woolens but mostly cotton goo s. They sleep on cotton, they walk in cotton, and no matter what the price of corn is they must ay the tax. I am opposed to it. I am opposetrto anything like these drawbacks on cotton goods. If manufacturers turn this cotton into the manufactured article let it o to foreign countries without drawback. Ey making adiscrimination between cotton goods and the raw cotton you do violate the principles referred to. Here the hammer fell.]