Mr. HOWE., Mr. President, I shall not take up the time of the Senate by expounding my own views upon this matter at any length; but I have an imPression that if we had as much labor here as they have elsewhere in the world trade ought to be as free as possible; that you ought not to impose a heavier tax upon the consumer of a foreign article than an article of home production for the mere purpose of revenue; that there is no reason why you should charge us any more for using a pound of tea than for using a pair of boots in proportion to the value of the 2 articles. The only object for which I want to see industry protected here at home, or rather to see the articles that we can produce here as readily as they can be produced elsewhere produced here, is for the purpose of evening the amount of labor in this country and in other countries. We are now purchasing and paying for a large proportion of the products of foreign labor. I think it is much cheaper and much better to import that labor than to import those products; and it is for that reason I want to see the U.S. confine themselves more and more to the consumption of their own productions. I have reference to those productions for which we have the same facilities that they have elsewhere, with the exception of the mere article of labor. But, sir, I did not mean to be betrayed into the discussion of the general features of this bill, and I should not have said a word upon them if I had not accidenally dropped a remark in the outset which i.like finding fault with it. I only say in conclusion that when we get, if we ever get, to the final vote on the bill I shall vote for it. J. do not expect the whole country will be satisfied with this bill. I am not satisfied with it myself, as I said before. I do not expect the whole country will be satisfied with my vote. The question which is the best system for the U.S. remains to be settled. It has got to be settled. It is not my habit to take a stand astride both sides of any great controversy. I am very apt to be fron one side or the other of it. I belong on one side of this controversy. I have indicated on which side of the controversy I do belong. At some time I shall find an opportunity of stating at some length and with some particularity why I am on that side.