Mr. HENDRICKS. I do not intend to discuss this question, but I think that the discussion which has already taken place should sat isfy the Senate that the bill ought to be further considered. It has been considered by one committee; butI do not agree with the Senfrom Maine [Mr. MoaaInL] that this is altogether a commercial question. It is certainly a question affecting the coffers of the Government, when we propose to place it in the power of men not to pay us taxes for 3 years. Sup use it was preposed to allow the manufacturer t new years within which to pay his income tax, that would be nota question of manufactures but a question of finance, because its immediate effect would be ii on the Treasury. It seems to me that this is a time when we should adopt a iolicy that will secure the largest returns to the “reasury; and I am not able to agree with the learned Senfrom Maine that this is altogether a commercial question. Without understanding it very well, am inclined to vote in support of the proposition which has been so ably maintained by the Senamr from RhdIsland. I think there is a great deal oflforce in this proposition. This bill would enable the importers to pile up in the Government warehouses fora period of 3 years, if they thought it was their interest, their importations, which would be an accumulated capital ready to be thrown upon the market of this country at any time“ and certainly Senators willadmitthat thatwould be a constant embarrassment to the manufacturer. Would any Senator wish his own interest all the time to be under the shadow of a greater interest which the Government provides tor? It seems to me there is force in the suggestion of the Senfrom RhdIsland. I o not agree with him in his propositions in respect to protection; I do not agree with him in the proposition that every producer can be a manufacturer. In Indiana we are necessarily an agricultural people, not because we have that “meanest property” in the world, poor land, but because we have altogether rich land, and our labor must of necessity go into the cultivation of the soil. I merely wished to say that I intended to support the proposition, and it will certainly do no harm to let the question he examined by the ComFinance.