Mr. SPRAGUE. I suppose that there is really no interest that is so little understood as the one now under discussion, and none that has been so misrePresented unintentionally I have no doubt, but nevertheless it is misrepresented. Here is this article of crash. The duty upon it as proposed by this amendment is 4 cents per square yard. The price of this article of crash cannot be in gold more than 12 cents per square yard when it is imported. The 4 cents per square yard would amount to just this, and no more: it takes to make a square yard about 2 lengths and a half; or, if I can make myself better understood, crash is about 15 inches in width. It is made in Prussia, it is made in England, in France, in Germany, in Ireland; it is made everywhere. It is the principal product of the flax manufacturers in the U.S. The suggestion that it is not made here and is not a perfect product of manufac. ture is in no wise correct. Then, if upon this 4 cents per square yard you calculate it, all that you get for the running yard, as proposed by the Senfrom NewYork, is the number of times that 2 and a half will go into 4. I will let any Senator reckon that up. It would be about one and 1/2 cents on a running yard; that is in addition to the 35%. advalorem as suggested in the bill. Now, the addition which has been made of 5%. to the 30%. that the ComFinance reported has decreased the protection upon this article 2 cents per yard; because 5%. upon the gold cost abroad would not be more than one cent. For that one cent that they increase upon these coarse articles they take off 3; and that is the exact condition of it as it now stands. In the article of burlaps, for instance, of which I spoke the other day, under the bill as reported by the committee, you get 2 and 8 10thscents by this 35%. on the gold valuation as it would be at the port of shipping. The duty of 15 dollars a ton takes off that 8 10th s, so that it allows but 2 cents for a square yard. This article does not come in as a square yard; it is about 30 or 32 or 33 inches; so that really on this article of burlaps the protection is not more than one and 1/2 cent per running yard, or about the same as that on ! crash. Although the article is not taxed 5%. on the manufacture, yet by the 5%. otherwise that this article indirectly pays the Government will take off every cent of the protection that you give; so that as the bill now stands there is not one single cent of protection given to any of the coarser, articles now manufactured in this country. I challenge contradiction here or elsewhere. I assert that neither upon crash nor upon burlaps nor upon any of these coarser articles is there one single mill of protection. You offset everything.