Mr. HENDRICKS. It was hardly necessary upon this question for the Senfrom Ohio to refer to the income tax, and in that connection to say that NewYork and NewEngland paid the greater proportion of that. The income ta/x, sir, is uniform upon the citizens of all the States, and if the West and Northwest do not pay so much of the income tax as the eastern States, it is because their incomes are less; and unless we have an equal system, a just system of legislation in regard to the interests of all sections, our income tax will always be less than that of NewEngland and NewYork. We have rich lands, lands that ought to produce to us very largele. We have a country which ought to make e people very rich, and it will )0 so if we have equal and just legislation. I! I domot agree with the Senator that Indiana and Ohio have no interest in this question of the cotton tax. His argument is that Indiana and,0hio have no interest that is by this legislation. prejudiced I do not agree witi him. Indiana and Ohio produce corn, wheat, flour, bacon, beef, which on ht to seek a market in the southern States. this the interest of Ohio and Indiana that the southern States should be most fruitful, that they should again be restored to their condition of wealth and prosperity. It is the interest of the farmer in Indiana as much as it is the interest of the farmers in Louisiana that the cotton crop should be a rich and a productive one, for when the southern people produce their cotton, and find a market abroad and in NewEngland, they are able to buy from us the surplus of our productions. We are directly, immediately interested in the prosperity of the southern crops. It is not our interest that the southern people should leave off the production of cotton; it is not our interest that cotton should be taxed out of production; it is our interest that it should be encouraged so that the people of the South may produce that article in the production of which we do not compete and cannot compete. We want the southern States to produce the largest possible cotton crop that we may sell to the southern States our surplus. It is the only convenient and cheap mar et that we have. The Ohio and the Mississippi rivers car our heavy productions to ths southern mar ct, and if we but allow the southern people again to be restored to their condition of prosperity, we in the West have our convenient and natural market and will receive from that market the wealth to which we are entitled.