Mr. HENDRICKS. I shall vote for this oin the hope that it will defeat this bill at this session; but I cannot altogether agree with the statement of the Senfrom Ohio that the reference will furnish no work for the committee. This bill now is not what it was when it came from the House; it is not at all what it was when it came from the ComFinance into this body. Each senator has had his particular proposition, and amendments have been made upon particular considerations; and now hardly any Senator can tell exactly what this bill is, and what may be its general effect upon the trade and business of the country; nor indeed can any of us tell how the taxes are relatively upon the different things taxed. But my main purpose in voting for this motion is to defeat the bill. I am not in favor of the bill. I think the western country is taxed enough now. I saw a statement the other day which I believe in substance, though it may not be literally true. The statement was that the products of the western country, if carried to a market wherever in the world the best prices could be found, could be sold, and from their proceeds twice as much brought back to the people of the western States if there were no tariff as under this proposed bill. In other words, the earnings of western labor under this bill will not bring to the peole of that section half as much of the comorts and necessaries of life as if there were no taxation like this. As a rePresentative of western labor I could not vote for such a bill. I would cheerfully vote for a revenue bill, and am willing reasonably to discriminate in favor of the industries that have a right to claim discrimination; but we have undertaken in this bill to protect every thing. Some minerals that a good many Senators have never heard of before have been provided for in this bill. Why, sir, it is as if we undertook almost to create minerals. It is suggested that we shall wait to see what the House is going to do with the internalrevenue system. From that intimation I understand we have got to change the internal taxes of the country. This is the 4th session that I have been in this body, and I believe at every session the revenue system of the Government has been changed, the internalrevenue and the tariff. Nothing is understood to be fixed, nothing is stable any longer in this country. We give an intoxicating support to a particular industry for a while ithen we change the tax upon that, and so prices go up and come down to the action of Congress, and Congress changes its action at every session. My opinion is that the manufacturing interests as well as the agricultural interests of this country now ask for stability more than anything else; and I cannot conceive of anything more vicious than the changing at every session of Congress of the revenue system of the Government. It has been a remarkable spectacle that we have witnessed here for a week past. If you propose to tax a particular article the friends of that article say, “You must give us a compensation in some other direction.” If you tax wool the manufacturer of woolen goods says to us, “You must tax the manufactured article from abroad so that we can price upon the raw of a profit " of you put an oany. internalrevenue to manufacture the producer of that.orticle will say to us, … Yo. put a prohibitory “if a losio a.o.o. pay the increased and still make ory as to allow us to raise our prices so that we shall lose nothing by this internal tax;” and the argument being carried into practical legislation an entire interest of the country is exempt from the burdens of Government. Take the manufacturer of woolen goods. For the protection of the farmer a duty is imposed upon wool. He says at once, “Then put an additional duty upon manufactured woolen goods, ” and he raises his price so as to make a profit, notwithstanding the increased price of the wool. Lay an internal tax upon the manufacturer of woolen goods, and he says at once, “Increase the tariff so as that my profits may be the same still, ” and in the end, according to this argument, he is to bear none of the burdens of Government. But, Mr. President, I did not intend to go into the argument of this bill. I do not intend to discuss it now; Hdo not know but that it will be better that it should pass. I would like the western people to fairly feel for once this policy. They have not understood it yet; but let this bill go into operation and I think they will understand it. I can say to gentlemen that in my opinion from the day a system is firmly adopted here which taxes western labor for the benefit of another section of the country agitation will commence that will not stop until this system is swept out of existence. I think the true interest of the manufacturer is to take such protection as is reasonable, such as will be agreeable to the people of the western country, and such as will throw upon all interests of the country their fair portion of the public burdens. Why, sir, there is nothing that is not now agitated in Congress. When the negro ceases to be agitated here then comes the tariff, then come the banks, and that question is to be agitated an abandonment of the F. system of banking until at this very our in the country no man knows what is going to stand. The banks do not know whether they dare loan out any money today. They do not know but that next month they will be required to call in their credits. It seems to me it is the duty of the ComFinance to give the country to understand that there is something settled, some one thing settled and o