Mr. DODGE. I renew the amendment to the amendment for the purpose of sayingafew words. I am confident that there is no portion of the country so deeply interested in the increase of our iron interests, and particularly the interest of railroad iron, as is the West. The State of Iowa, 1200 miles from the Sea coast, is more deeply interested in the successful increase of the railroad interests of the country thanalmostanyother State. Within the last 5 years there has been a vast increase of the capacity of rolling iron in this country. I differ from my colleague frpmNewYork city [Mr. RAYMOND] in regard to the prosperit of the iron interests of is country. know that for the last 18 months those interests have been far from pres erous. But during the early years of the wart eiron interests were prosperous, and during that time the railroad iron mills of this country increased rapidly. The railroad interests of the West are now stimulating the production of railroad iron in the West. [here are now rollin mili‘s in Chicago; there are rolling millsin Stouis; andI have been informed within a few days past that a large amount of capital is about to e raised to put up immense rolling mills on the Mississippi river, near the Iron mountain in Missouri. The people of the' West are more interested than any other portion of our people in secu ring railroad iron made from the best quality of iron. try for the last 15 years have suffered im measurably from the poor quality of the railroad iron that has been imported into this country. They have had the cinders of the mountains of ll ales convprted into rails and imported into this country. The result has been the imposition of a tremen dous expense upon the railroad interests. We want to develop the manufacture of railroad The railroad interests of this coun products of the iron from the very best quality ofrifOn. It is of more consequence to railroads that they secure the 1st quality of rails than that they shall procure them at a low rice. And grant 1 the protection now propose and railroad iron mills will spring a all over the West, not only providing new rai s, which are wanted for the construction of new roads, but rerolling the old rails and perpetuatiu in the cheapest possible manner all the migity railroad interests of the West. I now withdraw the amendment to the amendment.