Mr. FESSENDEN. Exactly; just as safe as any article in the whole tariff. It is merely making the tariff look higher for no possible object in the world. There are none imported, and none will be imported. Now, I wish to make an appeal to the friends of this bill, if it has any friends in the Senate I do not know whether it has or not. If they desire to have the tariff passed at this session of Congress they have got to stop this eternal offering of amendments:, This is the 10th day that this bill has been under consideration, and the committee took up a little more than one day with their amendments. I do not comlain of it, but I ask Senators to consider what as got to be done. We have now got through the month of January and we must adjourn on the 4th of March. This bill must go to the House, must be examined by the ComWays&Means, because they have got to compare it with their contemplated bill affecting. internalrevenue. That must be a work of time. They cannot do it in less than a week or ten days, perhaps more. Then it has got to be acted upon in the House, and then come back to the Senate with amendments, and we have got to discuss them, besides all the other business we have got to do. Now, if we keep drizzling along in this way it is impossible that the bill shall become a law at the Present session, and I wish the friends of the bill to understand it. If these amendments were at all material, if the bill could not be corrected in the House, if there is any mistake about it, I would not make these suggestions; but if anything is omitted which gentlemen want, or any fhing needs correction, it can be done by the House committee. It is important that this bill should get through the Senate, if it is going to get through at all, and that speedily. I know how it works. Every outsider who wants an amendment comes to his Senator or some other Senator and wants him to move this or that, or writes a letter to somebody to make a motion on this or that, and then he does it “on the statement of a most respectable gentleman who understands the subject.” Sir, the thing has run into the ground; it has got to be an absolute absurdity; and the country, if they are not laughing at us, ought to be for the course we are pursuing about it. I leave the further consideration of it to those who are opposed to the bill, and I must say for the gentlemen on the other side who belong to the other party they have given us no trouble at all. W. we have had has all been within our own ranks, and we have got to take it, be it more or less. I repeat, sir, it is of no use at all for us to o on in this way. I believe my friendfrom .[Mr. Poland) is the only man in the Senate who has not made a motion to amend or made a speech on this subject.