Mr. FARQUHAR. I offer this amendment. for the purpose of preventing injustice to a most meritorious class of officers; that is, the officers residin7 in the districts where this article is produced. The proposition of the committee is to divide these commissions between the officers in the districts where this article is f manufactured and the officers in the districts where the article is sold. Now, I say that it is due to the Officers in the districts where this article is manufactured that they shall have the exclusive commissions arising from the sale of this article. They have the exclusive responsibility and labor connected with this article except the simple responsi bility of taking care of the money after it has been paid in when the article is sold from the bonded warehouse. Now, it is unnst that these officers should be deprived of these commissions. If any payment should be made to the officers making the sale from the bonded ware house, then let it be added; but do not take these commissions from these officers who have all the trouble and responsibility. See how unjust it would be to carry in force the provision which the committee recommends. l ake the district in which I reside; it pays 1/3rd of all the revenue derived from the State of Indiana and in doing so that revenue is almost all derived from the manufacture of highwines. It is within 25 or 30 miles of Cincinnati, and these highwines may be transported to the city of Cincinnati, and there placed in bond; and when that is done, as it has sometimes been done, and as it may become the interest of the manufacturers to do, the officers of the district in which Cincinnati is located reap the benefit of 1/2 the services of the officers in the district in which I reside. Isay it is manifest injustice to the officers of my district. The officers in Cincinnati do nothing but merely collect the money which is to be aid before the spirits go out of bond and are elivered. Now, I up cal to this House to correct this injustice. ake the case of the officers in my district. If these distillers choose to remove this spirit in bond to Cincinnati or to NewYork, and sell it there, the officers there will get 1/2 of the commissions for the services performed in the 4th congressional district of Indiana and my argumentap lies to other districts in the same we. Now, say this is unjust. I think if the Lions will look at this matter, when they come to understand the effect of it to be asI have stated and I have represented it as I understand it they i will reverse their action, and confine these com. l missions to the OHlCEIS of the districts where these spirits are manufactured. Butthat isiiot all of which I complain. In the statistical tables showing the amounts manufactured in these districts all the whisky transported in bond and sold out. of the district where it is manufactured goes to the credit of the district where it is sold; and the district where it is manufactured gets no creditin the statistics of the country for the manufacture of this article. I say this is unjust, and I hope the House will correct or reverse its action on this matter.