Mr. IVILLIAMS. I move to amepd b inserting after the amendment just adopte the followmg: I. 0n soda ashand silicate of soda, one and 1/2 cent peround. 0n car onato of soda. exceeding 95%.in purity, 2 centsper poun. 0n sol soda, 2 and 1/2 centsper pound. 0n caustic soda, bicarbonateof soda, and aluminate of soda. 3 centsper pound. It will be observed, Mr. Chairman, that this amendment embraces the article of soda and its correlatives. I would have hoped to obtain the support of the honorable chairman of the ComWays&Means for this proposition, involving, as it does, a very importanr Vermont interest, if he had not unfor tunately prejudggd the case by pronouncing upon itin advance. He was leased to say in his opening s cech on this bill that the production of so a ash, so important an element in the useful arts, and so essential for many domestic purposes, is one of those things in which our step mother England eclipses all other nations; that the experiment of its manufacture in this country has failed because of the want of corresponding advantages on our part; and that, moreover, he had consented to save the nominal duty of 1/2 of 1%. on the article of soda ash, which did not afford any irotection, only in the glimmering hope that this beggar’s brat, cast out upon the commons to scratch for a living, might win its way to manhood by its own inherent power without the protection of the Government. I am willing to admit to the shame of the nation be it spoken that we are entirely dependent upon England for this article so necessary to the arts. We are importing it annually, and paying for it to the extent of 5 millions in go (I sent abroad while we are endeavoring to get back to specie payments,for the of feeding some 1000s of English lpaubroproesrse when we have all the elements tor the manufacture at home. It is not true, however, that England has any advantage whatever over us in the production of this article, except it be in its cheaper capital and lower wages. She has the salt, limestone, and coal in juxtaposition at NewCastle on the Tyne, at Glasgow, and at other points, and so have we in Equal abundance in many parts of this country. ature lianleposited the brine in immediate connection with the other elements, and so wedded them as to indicate the uses we are expected to make of them. There is, however, one other important element in the manufacture of this article which England is obliged to import from abroad but which we have at. home, and that is sulphur. This she cannot import in a pure state, but she gets it from Spain and Portugal in the shape of pyrites, or cheap sulphuret copper or iron ores. t costs her 21 or 22 dollars a ton, and the proportion of cop%ained is, I think, 3 or 4%. The same ores precisely are to be found in the Green mountains of Vermont in great abundance, but of so little value for fusion in the ordinary way as to be utterly worthless. Give us the protection we desire and we shall furnish a market for all the ores Vermont can provide. we will give employment to her people, and.mako that valuable which is utter y valueless now. Sir, if the chairman of the committee had heard the opinions of those I have the honor to represent before he committed himself publiclyin his 0 ening speech on this question, he might have been induced to think differently. We have here a case of juxtaposition without any chemiCal combination. In Vermont is found the ore which only wants the voice of the potent member from that State to develop it and make it useful and valuable to his people.