Mr. SAULSBURY. As this bill came from the HoRep atax of 5 cents a pound was proposed to be imposed upon cot ton. The committee‘bf conference, understand, have fixed that tax at 3 cents a pound. So for they have done well, in my judgment; but considering the situation of the people where this article is grown, reduced to absolute ov erty, scarcely able to get bread for their tum proceedingsin said cause: or if it were commenced by topics, he shall issue a writ of ha bemcorp!" cum coma. a duplicate of which said writ shall be deliv ered to the clerk of the State court or left at. his oficc. by the marshal of the district or his de duty, or some personduly authorized thereto: and t icro upon its all be the duty of the said State court to stay all further proceedingsin such cause and the said suit or prosecution.upon delivery of such process or leaving thesomeasaforesaid, s iallbe deemed and taken to be movedto the said circuit court, and myfurther proceedingstrial or Judgment therein in the State court shall be wholly pull and void. cAunsdtoidf by the defendantin any such suit be in actual on maneprocesstherein. it shall be the duty of tho marshal, by virtue of the writ of habeascorpus today r.a.to take the body of the defendantinto us to be dealt with in the said causeaccording to the wipe of law and the order of the circuit court or of anyJudizothereofin vacation. Allattachments madcngnd all bail and other security Riven. upon such suit or roseoptionshall be and continue in like forceand o ectas if the same suit or proseputionhad proceededto final iudgment and execution in th Statecourt; and ll.'llDOD the removal of anyone suit or prosecution.it shall be madeto appearto the said circuit court that no copyof the recordandproceedimgstherein in the State court can be obtained it shall be lawful for fluid circuit court to allow and require the plaintifl to proceed noon and to file a declaration of his cause of action and the parties maythereuppnproceednsin action originally brought in said circuit court: and on failure to so proceeding, Jpdgment f nolle.proaeqmmay be renderedagoiust toplainti. That an notewnittihtleedos"t Asnforatchtefduertfheenrdatontp:r Porvpidoeid for shall ndgt be so construed as to apply to cases in: und the collection of duties on imports, " passedMarebZ. $2 on not entitled “An act to provide in ilics, unrepresented in Congress, without any voice in the leing of taxes, I think it is unjust that the article of cotton should be singled out of all the products of the farmer and planter to be taxed. I am utterly opposed to any tax upon cotton unless a tax be levied upon the'other products of the earth. It" you tax wheat and corn and the other articles which are produced by the farmers and planters, I have no objection to a tax being placed upon cotton. But under the circumstances in w iieh we are plad, the circumstances in which the country placed, I am opposed to im osing any tax whatever upon cotton; and w ilc 3 cents a pound is more favorable to the planter of cotton than 5 cents. yet, bein opposed to that particular article being singled out to be taxed, I cannot vote for the report of the committee, nor for the bill itself with that provision in it. Before the war, I understand that the avera 0 price of cotton was about 9 cents a poun. This tax would be about 1/3rd of the average rice of the article as it stood before the war. t seems to me unjust to single out that one particular article, especially when we know that those who grow it are reduced to ahiost abject poverty, and are in no situation to be sin led out as a class to bear an unequal share of the public burdens. I make theseremarks simply in explanation of the vote I shall give.