Mr. CHANDLER. For the manufacture of glass, for the raising of bread, and for 100opurposes. It is an article of absolute necessity. The constituents of it are salt, sul phate of copper, limestone, and wood; and that is all there is in soda ash; these are the entire articles used in the composition. At this time we have one establishment that cost several 100,000 dollars in Pitts burg, Pennsylvania; but we have the materi als in the greatest abundance all over the country. Now, in case of a war with GreatBritain the price of soda ash might go up to 50 cents a pound in ten days. At one time there was a prevalence of westerly gales for a few weeks, and the price of soda ash went up from 4 or 4 and half to 15 cents, and remained there for 2 months. It is an article of prime necessity, and we have the materials for its manufacture in the greatest abundance and ought to produce it. It is a very cheap article, costing now only 4 and a half cents a pound. The manufacturers tell us that with a duty of a cent and a half a pound they can produce and will produce within a very short time all that the country requires. This increase of duty will not diminish the use of it to the amount of a io.und while we are getting under way. We salt in the greatest abundance. Sulphate of copper is today exported from the Lake Superior region to England to be turned into soda ash and brought back to Michigan, and there used in the manufacture of glass and for the raising of bread. It seems to me that if so small a duty as a cent and a half a pound will enable our own manufacturers to produce this enormous quan tity, for it is really enormous, that is used in the country, we ought to grant, that little protection, and I hope this amendment will prevail. It will increase the revenue immensely and enable us to take the duties off tea and coffee and things that the poor people use. Beside the articles that I have named for which soda ash is used, I might mention soap, and I might name many other things in the manufacture of which it is used. It is an article of prime necessity. We now use about 80,000 tons of it. This establishment in Pennsylvania, which cost some 2 or 3 or 400,000 dollars, is lying idle for want of a little protection. I think the article is one which should receive protection in this way, and I hope the amendment will prevail.