Mr. SHERMAN. What the Senator says is right enough, but as a matter of course we are not bound to follow the House in the adjustment of the various articles. I wish to apply to the article of bunting precisely the same principle which the Senate applies to all other articles of woolen manufacture. The principle of this bill is to give about 30%. adtalorem to articles of manufacture, and then to give a specific duty corresponding to the amount we levy on the raw material. That principle is carried out by my amendment. T. duty on the wool entering into the manufacture of bunting, which is made out of combing wool, the 2nd class, is ten cents a pound, and teen%. advalorem. It cannot exceed 14 Gents a pound, counting the wool at 40 cents. A duty of 50 cents a pound on bunting would ample to compensate for the duty we levy 9m the wool. The same principfe is applied to blankets and woolen and worsted yarns, which, than told, are made out of precisely the same mality of wool that goes into bunting, except that in bunting a quantity of cotton is mixed with the wool. The highest duty on woolen yarns in this bill is 30%. advalorem and 50 cents a pound specific. I propose to apply precisely the same rate of duty and the same principle to the article of bunting. I am told by gentlemen who understand this business better than I do that the price of bunting is from 18 to 20 cents a yard, currency. The result is that the duty as it now stands in the bill is equivalent to more than 130%. Beside that, we give to the domestic manufacturers almost a monopoly of the market by requiring the Government of the U.S. to purchase its supply of bunting from the American manufacturers. Why the duty was fixed as it was in the House bill I do not know. We ought to extend the same principle of protection and revenue to the article of bunting as to every other article of woolen manufacture. If the duty that I propose is found to be too low, as a matter of course it can be adjusted hereafter between the 2 Houses; but from the best information I can get it will give to the bunting manufacture the same protection that every other article of woolen manufacture will have under the bill. The amendment to The amendment was agreed to.