Mr. HENDRICKS. I believe it is regarded as scarcely in good taste to oppose an amendment like this, because when a man speaks in the name of the colleges and the high schools of the country and the libraries of the country he is supposed to speak by such authority that no man should question what he says; but I must confess to a sympathy with the sentiments expressed yesterday evening by the distinguished Senfrom Oregon, [Mr. WILLIAMs] There is no use to pretend that this is an amendment in the interest of the common schools and the common people of the country. It is not of that character, and it cannot be. The common schools of the country are supplied with their literature from the productions of the American press, and I am very glad that it is so., I do not know of a single foreign book going into the schools of the State of Indiana, and I suppose it is so most generally over the country. But there are colleges, well endowed institutions, and there are high schools, and there are select libraries to which it will be an advantage to be allowed to bring from foreign countries without any duty rare and costly books and maps. Now, when everybody is taxed to bear the burdens of the Government, when every interest in society has to help to bear these bur the country shall not bear its part? The humble laborer has to pay something on the salt that goes into the food for his children; and yet we are asked to say that the rich and endowed institution, the places of resort of the learned and wealthy as a general thing, shall have a peculiar privilege and exemption from the burdens of Government. A man would do better, I suppose, not to entertain these sentiments; it would perhaps be more popular to just say that what the Senfrom Vermont proposes is not to be questioned. If the jof Government were not heavy I would not care anything about it; but everybody has to come up to the work now, no interest escapes, and the college that wishes to secure for its library the rare works of European minds and European presses had as well pay upon the importation as the man who is required to pay a duty upon the salt that seasons the food for his family. I do not believe in many exemptions. When taxes are to be gathered I believe in the doctrine that dens, why is it that even the literary taste of. they shall apply to everybody and all alike. I think I appreciate the importance of semi naries of learning and of colleges as highly as any Senator; but I do not believe in exempting them from the burdens that all the people have to bear.