Mr. DELANO. I cannot say as to that. My friend is very familiar with details of that sort, and probably keeps the run of old clothes closer than I do. [Laughteal Mr. Speaker, you may thin that this wool interest is a little nearer my heart than it ought to be. It is not for that only that I speak. That is not the only interest to be protected. There is the oil interest, the flaxseed, the hcmpseed, and the oil that is made and the lint that is produced and to be produced in that great half explored and undeveloped ares. of country capable of producing these articles. While we sustain the spindle and the shuttle. the loom and the rolling mill of our country shall we neglect to protect the hardy tiller the soil also? Why, sir, I venture to predict that with 5 years of judicious protection of the wool interest there will be produced from the States of Missouri and Iowa the 87 millions of wool, with all the shoddy thrown in, that you have imported from abroad and derived no benefit from in the last 4 years. Understand me, gentlemen, and my policy! I am for protectin labor and industry in all its branches. Sir, do not want to strike down those blazin forges of Pennsylvania, whose light, when travel on the railroads by night is among the most joyful sights that greet my vision. Nor do I wish to silence the ringing anvils made jubilant with the hammer of industrious men. God forbid! I would multiply all these elements of industry, wealth, and power. Butwhile I would (lethat I would build up these other great interests along side of them. I join hands with you gentlemen who have iron and steel and coal and looms, and I am willing to have a fair adjustment. Sir, I want my cattle, my flax, my oil, my wool, if need be my salt, upon an equal ground of protection with these other interests. And now, I say to NewEng land. “As you have so long had protection, and had it. at our exreuse I do not say unjustly, but you have ad it come now to the work; do not seek to cast otf your responsi bility by saying that the West declines it. The West does not decline it; the West will not decline it; and if western men here decline it, there are 2 or 300,000 voters who will wish they had this protec The following tables are introduced to illus trate the positions assumed in the line of my argument and to establish the facts therein stated: PFlocks or shoddy imported into the U.S. annually since the year 1861 is as fol ows: Yenr. Poundn. 1362 Total. The value of manufactured woolens imported into the U.S. annually since 1861 is as follows: Tnhll $87, 782, 918 This table, taken in connection with the table showing the amount of unmanufactured wool imported since 1858, presents the following remarkable contrast: In 1861 the amount of unmanufactured wool imported amounted in round numbers to half a million. These imports steadily and annually increased, and in 1864 reached the enormous amount of 87 millions, to which may be added 8 millions of shoddy, making an n regate of 95 million pounds while in 1862 the importation of manufactured Woolens was 14 millions, and in 1865 only 20 millions, never reaching a greater amount than 32 millions, which was in the year 1864. It thus appears that the American manufacturers have had and still enjoy uch monopoly of the American market as to prevent successful cometition from abroad, while the producer o the raw material has been left without protection, leaving the manufacturer free access to the markets of the world for his raw material. American wools ought to be so protected as that the 95 millions now an nually imported may be produced upon our ownsoil. hcextensivean unoccupiedprairies of the West will sooner be brought into occupation and cultivation by encouraging the growth of wool than in any other manner whatever. No country in the world is better adapted to this branch of agriculture, and protection is as necessary to develop the dormant wealth of the western States in this respect as it is to open the coal beds and iron mountains of the mid dle States or to kee in motion the looms and spindles of NewEngland. To enforce the truth of this observation I submit the following table, showing the present number of sheep to“ the acre in various localities: England.. sheepto H acres. Scotland. Sheep to 1! acres. Great Brita! sheepto 2 acres. n U.S. sheep to 57 acres. Vermontlpud O to sheep to M acres. New hor sheepto 6! acres. owa. sheepto 24acres. In 1860 Vermont and Ohio had..1sheepto 8 acres NewYork. 1shccpto 1lacres. Iowa. 1 sheepto136acres. I call attention to the follpwing provisions of the existing tariff. Wool, unmanufactured, the value ofwhrch at the last port ofexport is 12 cents per pound, or less, exclusive of charges in surport, pays a duty of 3 cents perpound. You], as above, of the value of more than 12 cents and notover 20 fourcents {for pound, pays a duty of 6 cents perpound. Vool, as above, value over 24 cents and not over 32 cents perpound, duty ten cents per pound, and ten%. advalorem. 001, as above, value over 32 cents perpound, duty 12 cents perpound and ten%. all calm em. The finest mcstiza and other fine wools imported into the U.S., and which compete with the fine wools of America, have not during the last ten years averaged in valuation Over 14teents perpound at the last port of exrt. Hence wools competing with Amer ican no wools do not, by the existing tariff, pay a duty above 6 cents perpound. he practical operation of the existing tariff will be exhibited by the following statement, furnished by the collector of the port of NewYork, giving the imports of wool into that port, and the duties paid, during 6 months ending December 31, 1865: Grade. Pounds. Value. Wool costing 12 cents or less. 3 centsduty. Wool costing over 12 cents andnot over 24 cents. 6 cents “r 001 costing over 24 cents and not over 32 cents. 12cents. Total. $1, 984, 31I9ssesem92 It will be thus seen that the American farmer has no encouragement in competin in the production of one of the great and in ispensable products of industry, and that he cannot contend with the labor of the peasantry of other countries, where subsistence and labor do not cost to exceed one 4th of what the cost in the U.S., and where winter cod and shelter are rendered unnecessary by the climate. The national tax on American wool and the duties on objects necessary for its production exceed the average duties on foreign wools, as will appear from the above table, so that the American wool grower absolutely pays more for the privilege of selling his wool 11]the mar' kets of his own country than is paid by for errners for the privilege of importing. feel bound to state that the framers of the present tariff never contemplated that forci a fine wools would come into our country at the lowest rates of dut. They have been, themselves, disaplpointe in its effects, and are by no means c argeable with the injustice which it works. I desire to say that the chairman of the ComWays&Means is incapable of doing intentional injustice to any of the great interests of the country; and I take pleasure in adding that the industry, learnin, and ability with which he has so long disciarged his important and laborious duties as a member of the ComWays&Means. entitle him to the profound respect and gratitude of the American people. Appropriations for NewJersey Coast.