Mr. GARFIELD. I hope this section Will 1 move to substitute one dollar not be stricken out. I acknowledge that the provision is a stringent one, but it does not require them to rebuild. They have their cis terns already and it only requires that they shall inclose them and that the inspectors may have a key to the locks of the room in his possession and be able to go around and see that there are no secret pipes leading out by which a few barrels may be drawn out and sold without paying the tax. I know of no way except by some such thorough, strin nt measure as this by which an inspection 5 all be made, so that we shall absolutely know what is done, how much is manufactured daily, and where it goes. It thus comes under the supervision of the Government itself. As a matter of course to do this we have at to point out with a cat deal of particularity the mode of inspecting and securing the revenue from distilled spirits. If any gentleman here knows any better way to do this as thoroughly and with less trouble and annoyance to the owner of the distillery, I shall be very glad to hear it, and should be very willing to adopt it. But the revenue commission that looked into this matter and compared it with the system in other countries have been able to devise no better, more simple, or cheapermeans of effecting the object, and I hope it will prevail. I will say, however before I sit down, that a thing greatly desired by all countries, not yet attained, but which I hope is to be reached in this country, is the invention of a meter that may be fixedto a still by which all the fluid shall be measured as it is manufactured. It is declared that such an invention has been made by a citizen of the U.S., and it is now being examined by the officers of the Coast Survey and the Smithsonian Institute; but it cannot be determined in time for the action of the internalrevenue Dept or Congress this year. Therefore I hope we shall be permitted to use this system, however cum brous it may appear to be, until another session of Congress, when, perhaps, we shall have found that the invention is a success, and will very much simplify this whole matter and remder our revenue from this source more certain. But until that is done I hope this House will stand by the committee in maintaining this system of thorough inspection.