Mr. CATTELL. I agree most heartily with the Senfrom Indiana that both the Senate and the country would be very much rejoiced if the Senate got through with the tariff bill and were engaged in something else; and I F. most agree with him, too. that if the result he desires shall be accomplished, namely, the defeat of the bill, the most appropriate thin to pass next would be the bankrupt bill. have not the slightest doubt that with the views he has exPressed and entertains with regard to the bill he wishes its defeat; and if that result should ensue the bill to which he has alluded as coming in such proper connection with this would then be very well in place. I shall be exceedingly happy, quite as much so as the Senfrom Indiana, when the Senate shall have disposed of this question; and I think I exPress most heartily the sentiments of the chairman of the ComFinance, who has stood here day after day faithfully attending to what he conceived to be the inter. ests of the country and of the Senate in regard to this bill, when I say that he will also be pleased at that result. It is neither his fault nor the fault of the friends of the bill particularly that it is embarrassed by these long discussions. It is a natural result which must come from a bill of such importance as the one before the Senate so much of detail a bill which proposes to sweep out of existence 6 or 7 remnants of tariff bills, and to supply their place with one which, it was hoped, would be considered more perfect. But I did not rise for the purpose of doing other than objecting to the amendment of my friendfrom Michigan relative to soda ash. I have only to say in regard to that that if I could have it so soda ash would be one of the articles I would admit free of duty, as being the base of a large number of our manufacturing articles, a very large number. I do not think our country is adapted to the manufacture of soda ash; it has been tried; experiments have been made with it without success in a number of instances, and it has hitherto been free or nearly free. It is now proposed to put on a duty of half a cent a pound, ten dollars a ton, simply as a matter of revenue. That will ive us an importation of 80,000 tons; $800,000 of revenue. I think it is wise and proper to impose a duty of half a cent a pound on this article, which, in the Present condition of the country, cannot, I think, be manufactured here even if we impose the proposed duty. Even if it could be, that rate is too high, because the article on the other side in ordinary times is not worth more than a penny or a penny and a half penny. The duty proposed by the committee is for revenue, ' think it ought to be maintained.