Mr. GRIMES. Mr. President, I am really curious to know where the Senfrom Ohio has discovered that trade and business are in such a languishing condition as he has represented, and what particular branches of in us try are in such a bad condition. 0 far as I have heard or been able to investigate the subject, my opinion is exactly the reverse of that of the Senfrom Ohio. I suppose that the best evidence upon this subject is to be found in your internalrevenue returns. They show that during the last month the receipts were u ward of 12 million dollars; and I see ub ished in the newspapers that in one day during the present month we have received upward of 2 million dollars. Does that show that business is languishing anywhere? Are not the mills all running to their full capacity? Are not the iron manufactories in Pennsylvania, and elsewhere, rolling out all the iron they can possibly roll out? Does the Senator suppose that they roll it out to a disadvantage or a loss to themselves? And if they have not made such immense profits during the past year, how much, let me ask the Senfrom Ohio, have we relieved them by the passage of the internalrevenue law? Wehave removed the entire excise upon railroad iron; we have removed all the excise upon bloom and pig metal; we have removed a portion of the excise on all other manufactures of iron; we have removed all excise upon the coal. Will that cause their business to languish? Will not that, on the contrary, be an incentive for them to push their works to a still greater extent than they have already ushed them? Are not these men to be satisfied)with what we have already done? Is it possible that they are not willing to allow us to deliberate 2 or 3 months to see how this bill may affect our interests; but after having succeeded in indu cing Congress to relieve them from these bur dens, as they considered them, will they still insist that we must pass another bill specially for their benefit and to our disadvantage? But the Senator talks a great deal about the gnu or labor of Euro e. have heard a great ea of that kind of discussion upon the stump. Sir, I stand here as the representative of the laborin man quite as much as the Senfrom 0 i0 an it is not to be thrown in my teeth that I am not as willing as he, or as an body else, to protect the laboring man. I 0 not stand here as the representative of a class. I do not stand here as the representative of the wool growers alone, who, among my constitquents, are not more than one in1,000. How is this wool duty, which the Senator says has come to us all prepared, the judge’s notes drawn out, and all that is necessary for us to do is merely to reduce the thing to form, and then we have discharged our duty and can go quietly home? Why, sir, they induced the western wool growers, it seems, to consent to a slight change in the classification of wool by which there will be an increased duty of 4 or 5 or cent. The wool growers tell me that it Wlll increase the value of their article, they suppose, 5 cents a pound, not more; and what then? They have got that change made in order to proteet the wool grower from introducin what is called the mestiza wool from Sout America and the Ca 9 of Good Hope, which, coming in a very irty condition, is of low value, but when cleansed and scoured competes with our wool and makes the same kind of fabric that the American wool does. The wool manufacturer as 's, “We will consent to this addition to your duty, but you must consent to add 40%. to the duty on the woolen fabric when it is made; ” and that ls done. Now, does it not strike the Senfrom Ohio that the wool manufacturer, if he can et that additional duty upon his manufactur fabric, can afford to pay for the mes tiza wool under this tariff just as much as he could afford to pay for it under the old tariff? Where, I ask the Senfrom Ohio, is the advantage to the wool grower under that condition of things? The manufacturer gets the additional duty that you impose upon the foreign wool; and then what is the condition of the consumers, who I say here are as 999 in this country to one producer of wool? They are compelled to my the burden that is put upon wool, and t on compelled to pay the bur on that is also imposed upon the woolen fabric; and with the passage of such a bill as this, an ordinary coat, such as the Senator and I wear in the winter season, would cost from $100to $200 I expect, or something in that neighborhood.