Mr. HENDERSON. I am inclined to think that the amendment ought to be adopted, or the duty reduced to 2 and a half cents a pound. I really cannot tell what, amount of revenue will be derived under this bill, nor can anyone; but I am inclined to think that under it the revenue will be largely increased beyond the amount received last year. 5 cents a pound upon coffee was 50%. on the value of the coffee imported in 1864–65, and between 45 and 50%. on that imported in 1863–64. It is an article that, although once regarded as a luxury, has now become, an absolute necessity to the laboring man, who perhaps uses a larger quantity of it than the wealthy man, who is not compelled to labor for a livelihood. I am satisfied that, so far as the revenue is concerned, this reduction can be safely made; and I am satisfied further that something ought to be done to relieve the people. Since the bill was reported by the committee the duties have been increased by the Senate; almost every amendment made by the Senate has been to increase duties; I do not know of one solitary decrease. Even the duties on wool ens, which were supposed to be very high and against which objections were made on every hand, were increased, and if I am not much mistaken very largely increased, by the amendment adopted this morning on the motion of the Senfrom Massachusetts, [Mr. Wilson] The duties on iron and other materials were surely high enough before; but every time the duties in this bill have been touched by the Senate it has been to increase them. It really seems to me that a decrease can be made in the duty on coffee; and as on revenue considerations it is admissable, a decrease ought to be made. It will be seen in regard to the article of tea, if you take the importations of 1863, 1864, and 1865, that the Present tariff of 25 cents. pound is a tariff of 100%. ere then is a tariff of 100%. upon an article that is not a luxury but almost a necessity, an article, which everybody uses. If it can be reduced, why not reduce it? There will not probably be any more of it brought into the country in consequence of the reduction; it will require no greater exportation of gold to pay for it. People will use it in the same quantity as before. Now, we of the West are compelled to pay a% age, not only upon the original cost, but upon the tariff duty, and also a% age to the importer, to the jobber, and to the retailer. And hence it is that an article of Java coffee, which costs in the foreign market between ten and a half and 12 cents per pound, as is shown by the importers' invoices, costs us from 38 to 45 cents per pound. It will be a very great relief to reduce these duties, and in my judgment the amendment which is offered ought to be adopted.