Mr. WILLIAMS. I hope that amendment will not be adopted. I voted against the other amendment proposed by the Senfrom NewJersey, and upon the same ground I oppose this amendment. In the State in which I live we use carriages, and we purchase them from persons who manufacture them upon this side of the continent, and I do not know how much more they desire to add to the price of wagons than we are now compelled to pay. Certainly the prices at this time are enormous; and I know of no reason why the manufacturers of these articles may not make them under the existing tariff and be compensated by the prices they now receive. But in addition to the imposition of an additional duty on carriage springs, an effort is now made to strike at the railroad interests of the country, in which the people of the Pacific coast and the West are deeply interested. So far as I am concerned, I am determined to oppose these exorbitant duties upon the mate rials out of which the railroads of the country are constructed; and if there is much more additional duty put upon these articles, not withstanding the fact oIam one of the committee who concurred in the report of this bill, I shall vote against the whole of it, because there is a limit beyond which the manufacturers ought not to go in the burdens which they impose upon the consumers of the country. In this respect the people of the State which I have the hoo! in part to rePresent here are altogether consumers, so far as wagons are concerned, and they will be so far as the mate rials and articles which enter into the construction of railroads and railroad cars are concerned. It is for the development of the country, and the promotion of its best interests that these articles, which are necessay for the construction and operation of railroads, should not be put at oexorbitant prices as to check and impede their construction. And I have heard no rePresentation made here to satisfy me that the persons who are engaged in the manufacture of these articles are not now engaged in a lucrative business.