Mr. YATES. I have answered that question already. I have said that this bill was the result of a joint understanding between the wool manufacturers and wool growers, and that both, as it; we understand, were perfectly satisfied with and that is a sufficient answer. The whole trouble is this: the Senators do not deny that they are in favor of American protection; oh no; but this is not a Massachusetts bill; c and steel and iron are in this bill, and they prefer the Present tariff. But as a rePresentative of the West, rePresenting that great interest, agriculture, which as is so often said is the foundation of every other interest, commercial and manufacturing, that interest which has its 100s of population where you have your twenties or your thirties, I feel it my duty to resist now any further amendment of this bill. I shall not complain of honorable Senators hberoruegrhetPresenting the eastern States who have in amendment after anendment to this bill after the report of the chairman of the committee. I was willing to sit here and take the tariff bill as reported, protecting every portion and every interest of the country. It was easy enough for me to rise in my seat and ask for additional duty upon corn, and upon wheat, and upon horses, and upon swine, and upon beans and potatoes, and upon prairie chickens, if you choose, sir; jo.Was easy enough for me to do that; but this committee, in which I have so much confidence, prepared this bill with reference to every interest, and I was fully and entirely satisfied with it. We shall be forever indebted to the distinguished chairman of the committee and to the able committee itself for providing a bill which is not obnoxious to the exception which has heretofore prevailed against other bills. It is fair to every section of the country, and as such I receive it. The amendment which I F. ose to offer I do not mean to insist upon. offer it as a counter proposition to that which is now introduced by the Senfrom Massachusetts; and I hope that from this time out Senators will stop introducing amendments. I say it respectfully. They have a right to offer them, and they are to be the judges of their own action; but if they will continue to introduce amendments for increased duties upon the fabrics of the factories, I will take up the long list, beginning with the highest rate in the farmer's productions, and propose amendment after amendment, and we will pile up this bill until we kill it so dead that there will be no resurrection for it.