Mr. MORRILL. The present bill embraces those sections in the last part of the tariff bill recently passed by the House, and which was pestpoued by the Senate. They are provisions which in the main have met the approval of a large majority of this House. This bill proposes a tariff on but 3 articles, one 0 which is cigars. Our internalrevenue tax upon cigars is higher in some particulars than is the duty upon imported cigars, and it is manifest that some additional legislation should be had in relation to that article. The next article is cotton. The duty of 5 cents peround, now fixed upon cotton, was so fixed when it was supposed the internal tax would be 5 cents perpound. No duty is needed for the protection of American cotton, but it is manifestly proper, when we levy an internal tax upon any article that at least an equal amount of duty for revenue purposes should be levied upon an foreign importation of the article, and the onIy description of cot ton which is likely to be imported is the Surat cotton, worth not more than about 2/3rds as much as American cotton. Thrce cents)er pound is also the sum allowed as a drawback ported, and if now adopted will harmonize and make symmetrical all our laws on this subject. Another article is distilled spirits, which are now imported, merely colored, and styled “es sences, whereby a great amount of fraud is committed on the Canadian frontier. It is in order to reach this class or description of spirits which may be thus fraudulently intro need that the provision of this bill was introduced into the original tariffbill and has been inserted in the present bill. In connection with this subject, and in order to prohibit the introduction of distilled spirits in very small nrcels, I am directed by the Committee of ays and Means to move an amendment by way of a proviso, which also is similar in its terms to a provision embraced in the tariff bill as passed by this House. I move to amend by inserting at the end of the 1st section the following: Provided.That brandy and other spirituous liqnor: may be importedin casksor other packagesof any cagacily notle ss than 30 gallons; and that wine in ottle smay be importedin boxes containing not less than one dozen bottles of not more than one Iiquors iamchp;oartneddiwnitnoet.hber U.S. earns sirhi iptupoeuds after the lst day ofOctoher, 1866, in any less quantity than herein provided for, shall be forfeits to the U.S.