Mr. EDMUNDS. I now propose another amendment on the subject. '. which I trust will meet the approbation even of the committee. It is on page 93, section 16, line 9, to strike out “spruce, whitewood, and basswood; ” so that that clause will read: On sawed boards, plank, deals, and other lumber of hemiock, one dollar per 1,000 feet, board Ineasure. And after line ten to insert the following: On spruce and basswood, $1 5oper 1,000 feet, board measure. On pine, whitewood, ash, and oak, 2 dollars per 1,000feet, board measure. On black walnut, $250 per 1,000 feet, board naeasure. The classification which I have proposed in this amendment is suggested to me by a gentleman engaged in importing lumber, and I think the committee will agree that it increases on the higher priced and more valuable descriptions of lumber somewhat the rate. The interest of this gentleman, if he has any to injure his country, would be in the opposite direction; and so far as my knowledge goes I admit it is not equal to that of the committee on the subject of lumber or anything else it is a classification which is o much more approthan the one proposed by the committee. t leaves hemlock lumber just as it stands. Certainly on the northern frontier spruce lumber and basswood bear a much higher rate of value than hemlock does, and therefore it is just that they should pay a somewhat higher rate of duty. Then pine is left by this amendment just as it stands now. Whitewood is put with pine. That subject has already been discussed sufficiently. Ash and oak are also put with pine, and there is no change on those, because under the Present amendment of the committee they come in under the head of “other varieties of lumber” at the same rate of 2 dollars per 1,000, while black wal nut, which is a much more costly article, and also one of a higher degree of luxury, so to speak, is put at half a dollar 1000feet more. It does seem to me, if you look at it candidly and with a reasonable desire to class ify it correctly, that these classifications ought to be satisfactory to the committee.