Mr. WILSON. Mr. President, I do not enter into that controversy. I am speaking of this tariff, the measure before us; and I say that Massachusetts does not demand it, and in my judgment there is nothing in the bill to compensate her for this increased duty upon coal, upon iron, upon steel, and upon wool. You increase the duties upon these articles that enter into our manufacture and our me chanic arts in their various forms. I see what the contest is to be in the future. It will be pretty hard lowering the duties on iron, on steel, or on wool; but the war upon textile fabrics and upon the various productions of the mechanic arts in our part of the country will go on; it will be made upon every stump in the country against us; and while the ben efits of this measure are to go to others, the reproaches are to be heaped upon us; and that is about all we shall get of it. You cannot smuggle iron, nor steel, nor wool into the country, but you can smuggle articles similar to the products of our manufactories and of our various mechanic arts to a great extent if the duties be very high. There is a good deal of smuggling now, and after the passage of this bill there will probably be more. Now, I want gentlemen here to take the full responsibilities of this measure upon themselves. I protest against this talk here in the Senate or in the country, in the Press or before the people, that this bill before us or the bill, passed by the HoRep at the last session is demanded by the people I rePresent, or is to promote their interests. If I had my way today I would prefer, for our interests, to stand upon the laws as they in OW are. There is one interest of ours, and but one interest alone, that I see is to be promoted to any considerable extent by this bill, and that is the worsted interest. That interest grew up under the reciprocity treaty, the wools being imported chiefly and mainly from Canada, and when that treaty went down, the 8 or ten million dollars invested in that product was imperiled. The persons who made those investments have lost 100s of 1000s and probably millions of dollars. This tariff will be a benefit to them; but as regards the varied mechanical interests, the vast interests of my section of the country, I see nothing in this measure, and I have no anxiety about it. What I protest against is, that anybody here or elsewhere shall name it or consider it as a measure called for by the State of Massachusetts. We have various mechanic shops into which iron and steel enter to a great extent. Our people are largely engaged in railroads in our own section, in the West, and every where else in this country. Our people are interested in railroads all over the West, and largely in the central and southern States. What are we to gain by this great increase of duty on iron or on steel? And taking the next half a dozen or ten years before us, I do not see that the cotton manufacturers are to gain byStihri, s great advance of duty on wool. if I vote for this measure, I shall vote for it on grounds general to the country, without expecting any special benefit for my own section. I have noticed that nearly all the votes that have been taken have a squinting to crowd us very hard in this matter; and I see very plainly from what has been said here that when this measure is passed, if it be passed at all, the responsibility for it and the war o it is to be made upon us and upon the produc.tions of our manufactories and machine shops and the various mechanic arts.