Mr. SPRAGUE. I have received several communications from manufacturers in different parts of the count growing out of the resolution that I had the onor to propose before the recess, and I desire now to present these communications to the Senate, and have them referred to the ComManufactures. One of them relates to the manufacture of steel, in which it is proved that the internalrevenue tax upon the manufacture of steel is greater than the duties levied upon the imported article; and that, unless Congress institutes some remedy, that interest will go out of existence. Another of these communications relates to the manufacture of bronze colors, making the same complaint; another of salt; another of sheet iron; another with reference to cigars, which I will read: “In consequenceof your resolution offered in regard to the tax of internalrevenueon homepr ductsbeing smaller than the duties. exchange. 8:o, p ensoperuse the following: the duty on cigars imported per 1,000 from Usvanais $2775;the internalrevenuetax is 83225.” Showing an increase of revenue tax over the dut of 5 dollars per 1,000; and he closes with the remark: “In consequence of which, millions of cigars have arrived from Havana last week, anticipating your raising the duty.” There are a couple of other papers and several printed documents which have received on this subject and which I now present to the Senate and desire to have referred to the same committee. Mr. President, I introduced the resolution to which I have referred, on a former occasion, simply as a resolution of inquiry. I did not propose to recommend or to advocate the increase of duties upon imported articles; I desired simply to draw the attention of the Sea ate, of the HoRep, and of the country to the fact that I had ascertained by practical experiment and through practical information derived from channels known to the business men of the country, but which I believed had not been sufficiently considered, that this disparity existed. I desired simply at that moment to raise a voice of warning, a voice of alarm at the existing state of things growing out of the fact, which I had ascertained from these practical experiments and this tactical knowledge, that the taxation undert e internalrevenue system was greater than the duties upon the importation of goods from abroad. It occurred to me that if that state of things were permitted to exist, the manufacturing for this country will be done in England, France, and Germany, instead of the manufacturers of our own country being emplo ed. Why, sir, today I can import an article o cotton goods, pay the dut, pay commission, pay the difference of exc sage, and sell that article of cotton goods here at the same price it would take me to make it here, in consequence of the increased cost of production in this country growin out of the internalrevenue tax directly upon the manufactured fabric and indirectly upon labor and the various articles necessary to e used in the consumtion of the manufacturer to enable him to proace the fabric. Sir, I have no particular interest in anyone Dept ofingustry in this countrycotton or woolen goods, or iron. The idea whichI endeavor to advocate here and elsewhere is, that the manufacturing interest is but one ste removed from the agricultural, and that hot in common must, of necessity, work together in order to promote the interests of the whole country. I am not one of those who desire, because there may be interests that are seemingly prosperous in my own country, rather to promote the prosperity and interest of another country. do not believe that those countries across the water, which have occu ied the atti tude that certain unnamed ones have toward this country for the past 4 years, are entitled to much of my sympathy, or much of the sympathy of the American peopla. Sir, when I see petitions brought into this Senate for a system whose sole advocates are those who are in the interest of those people across the water whose sole advocates in this country are paid by the capitalists of other countries, and, as I am told, are kept it and fostered constantly by means sent from there, Iam less inclinedto believe in the honesty of the purposes they are endeavoring to advocate. Sir, the humble individual who now addresses you has come under the criticism of a promi nent aperin NewYork and a distinguished member of the other House; and the simple intpiry thatI proposed on a former occasion is eld up as being not only a ridiculous as sumption, but as something criminal, which ought to have been cried down the moment it was uttered. On that point all I have to say and I desire to say it herepubliclyLis that such criticisms and ammadversions and complaints, from the sources from which the have come, are desirable to me. If I did not now itin any other way I know that I am right because they would make me wrong. I know, sir, that the course which these instruments have been pursuing for the last 5and 20 years is in imical to the liberty, to the prosperity, and to the independence of this peole. Sir, for advice as to my public course, I shall not go to GreatBritain, or to any of her champions, even those that are the most liberal. In one of the petitions that have been presented here, the repeal of the corn laws is pointed out as being a great triumph over monopoly, and the American laboring interest is used as a parallel case to the attempt of the friends of the corn laws to continue them. Sir, the repeal of the corn laws of GreatBritain was brought about by the manufacturinginterest, with Richard Co den at its head, the most successful manufacturer of his time. He sawplainly that the manufacturin interest of GreatBritain could not be sustained except it was by the introduction of ehca bread. The pam cred aristocracy and Ian edestates kept bread iigh; and yet the manufacturing and laboring interest of this count are pointed out as beinginlike situation! I e, the laborers of this country, are compared to a pampered aristocratic, land holding organization l Sir, I do not agree with that proposition. I do not agree either to followin the nth of gentlemen of that stripe, because be love that it will lead to the destruction of the interests of this country. The communications were referred to the ComManufactures. PAPERS WITHDRAWN and REFERRED. On motion of