Mr. SHERMAN. It all goes down the Ohio river, and none ever touches either the lake shore or the eastern market. It floats down along the Ohio river, and is consumed in that region of country. So that in fact the people I rePresent have no particular interest in this bill except that which they share with Iowa in being the owners of flocks of sheep; and on the question of wool, the Ohio wool grower does not ask the average rate of duty in this or any other tariff bill. The average rate of duty imposed by this bill on wool is not near equal to that imposed on almost any other article ten cents a pound and ten%. advalorem; so that on that point we have no special protection in this bill. When I said I would not consider this matter I did not say I would disregard the will of the Senate not at all. I simply said the ComFinance could not consider it, and would not because it could not; that is, could not make a recxamination of this whole subject; and why? That committee have got to consider the subject of internal taxation; they have got to consider all the appropriation bills; any bills in regard to loans and currency and debts; and surely they have enough to do without a reexamination of this question, to which they have given all the holidays and every hour of leisure which other Senators have enjoyed to their hearts' content. I simply desired to say that if the bill is referred, no new light could be thrown upon it, no new examination could be had; we could only hear the statements of interested parties. We have now all the official information we can possibly get, and the Senate can dispose of it. There is not a Senator here now but what has access to every report, every document, every information that he can reach by any possible post ponement. The only object of a reference is to get information, new light. What new light can the ComFinance throw on. subject? None whatever. As to the question of the postponement of the consideration of this bill, that is a question of the order of business. Everybody knows that we have but 5 or 6 weeks left of this session; and if we do not dispose of bills now in their regular order and in much less time than has been consumed in the consideration of this bill, as a matter of course a large portion of the business of the session must go over. It is to be remembered that we must pass at least 15 or 20 important legisative bills this session before the session closes, and even the debate on this very important bill has been prolonged much longer, it seems to me, than was necessary for the con" sideration of the subject.