Mr. CHANDLER. I move to amend by striking out lines 13, 14, and 15 of section 8, on page 38, in these words: On copper ore, ten%. advalorem. On regulus of copper, 15%. advalorem. On copper in pigs,ingots, or bars, 4 cents per pound. And in lieu of them to insert: On all copper imported in the form of ore, 3 cents per pound. On copper imported in the form of regulus, 4 Centsper pound. On copper in pigs,ingots, or bars, 5 cents per pound. Some years ago, before the imposition of internalrevenue taxes, the duty on copper was fixed at 2 and a half cents per pound, which was an ample protection to our copper mines at that time. From time to time, as taxation increased, it was discovered that the miners, those engaged in mining copper, actu ally paid a larger amount of duty in the form of internalrevenue to Government than the amount which purported to protect them. Under a duty of 2 and a half cents per pound the mines were prosperous and went on increasing until the product of the Lake Superior mines alone amounted to about 10,000 tons per annum, and we shipped many 100s and for aught I know many 1000s of tons to France, because our copper was of a iur.er and better quality, softer, and more mal than copper obtained elsewhere. But since the great increase of the internalrevenue taxation many of our mines have stopped working, and our product has now fallen from 10,000 tons or thereabouts to near 6 or 7,000 tons per annum. Under this duty, as I am assured by the miners, by those interested in the mines, they will be compelled to stop entirely. The ten%. imposed by the bill is of course upon the foreign valuation the valuation in Cuba or Chili or wherever the ore comes from and it is almost an inappreciable tax. I propose to place a definite tax upon the ore after it is smelted. The progenitors of this tariff bill have gone upon the presumption that ore was a raw material. T. whole expense of the ore is in the labor of getting it out of the mines, and the ore is then just within 3%. ofingot copper. It costs only 3%. to smelt the ore intoingot copper. propose, therefore, to make a distinction of one cent a pound between copper in the ore and regulus which has gone through one process of smelting, and one cent between regu lus and copper in the bar. I have before me the sworn testimony taken before the ComWays&Means of the HoRep of some of the most reputable gentlemen engaged in this min:ing business. They show that prior to last winter each 100 pounds of copper mined in Lake Superior actually paid into the Treasury of the U.S. $463; but last winter $108 was taken off in the shape of direct internalrevenue taxes, leaving $3 55, the amount which is now paid into the Treasury upon every 100 pounds of copper raised from the mine. I do not propose to place the amount of duty as high as the amount now actually paid into the Treasury in the form of internalrevenue taxation. The amount of internalrevenue taxespaid upon 100 pounds can be ascertained to a perfect certainty, because the owners of every mine are compelled to keep a store to supply their operatives with everything they consume; and in this sworn testimony, as I see, they have shown that they paid $3 63 upon every 100 of ore that was raised, and now they pay $3 55. I now propose to fix a duty of 3 cents per pound on foreign ore smelted, and I think any man at all acquainted with the mining operations of the country will say that that is certainly reasonable and just and proper.