Mr. LAWRENCE, of Ohio. The distinguished chairman of the ComWays&Means has reminded us that my colleague [Mr. Sonnse x] adheres to all his purposes with great tenacity. Sir, it is a virtue that he has learned or might have learned, from the chairman of the ComWays&Means himself. If the revenue commission had made a report upon this subject of the taxation of cigars and tobacco, and if that report had been in accordance with the views of the ComWays&Means, I should have hesitated somewhat before asking this committee to change it. But, as I learn from the chair man of the Committee of “nys and Means, that commission did not investigate this subject at all. They made no report upon it; and I beg this committee, therefore, to remember that in voting down the recommendation of the ComWays&Means they are not voting down the recommendation of the revenuc commission. The single question now presented to the committee isthis: shall cigars which are manufactured out of the lowrice tobacco raised in Ohio and other western States, pay an equal amount of tax with cigars manufactored mm the more expensive and valuable tobacco raised in Connecticut? That is the question presented for the consideration of the committee, and it seems to me that, as aquestion of naked justice, the proposition is so old as to strike the conse ience and the judgment of ever man who hears me. Mr. hairman, the value of Ohio tobacco is generally from 7 to ten cents perpound; that of Connecticut is 22 cents perponiid. Now, if you levy the some tax on the cigars made from Connecticut tobacco that you do upon cigars made from Ohio tobacco, each costing anequal amount of labor, the result will he, as itllflS been under the existing law, that you give a monopoly of the market to the manufacturer of the Connecticut tobacco and drive out of the market the product of the Ohio tobacco. That has been the result under the present law. [can ive a single instance in my own district, which i, Ia prehend, is but an illustration of what occurre elsewhere all over the western States. A farmer raised a small crop of tobacco and during the winter went to work and manufactured it into cigars himself. When he came to hunt up the assessor, to pay the tax on the cigars, he found that he could not sell the cigars for a sufficient sum to pay the tax. The result was that he was compelled to destroy them. Now, that is to be the result of this bill, if you levy the same tax on cigars manufactured from Connecticut tobacco and those manufactured from Ohio tobacco. The chairman of the Committee of We s and Means tells us that he is opposed to the whole system of discrimination, to the whole advalorem system. Why, sir, this very bill makes 2 gradesof ei ars, and taxes one 2 dollars per 1,000 an the other 4 dollars. If the principle be correct, extend it a little further, to alfgrades of tobacco. Here the hammer fell.]