Mr. GARFIELD. I am perfectlyaware there is in this matter to some extent a collision of interests. I wish to state briefly some of the points involved in the case. The distinguished chairman of the ComWays&Means has made 2 errors. In the hrst place he says 2/3rds of the seed already used in this country is imported. I think he is mistaken in that. For ten years the average home crop has been 1,600,000 bushels, and the avera e imported 1,400,000. The importation of oil has been about half a million gallons annually. So that, adding all the importation of oil to the oil made from; the imported seed, it makes a little less than the amount made from the home seed. The result of that comparison of facts is, that we produce more of our oil from home own seed than we bring from abroad in the s ape of oil and seed. The chairman of the committee speaks of there being about a dozen pressesin the W'est that will be benefited by this bill as it now stands. I will tell him that there are in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, and Iowa 93 presses, of the capaeit of crushing 2,500 bushe s annually. Now, what are the facts in regard to the business itself? We lay a tariff of 16 cents a bushel on foreign seed and 23 cents on a gallon of foreign oil. Now, a bushel of foreign seed produces 2 and an 8: allons of oil. 1 So that if a man brings the sea from abroad and crushes it in Boston or NewYork he produces an amount of oil which, if ship ped from abroad, would pay 40 ine cents duty; but in the shape of seed it n ays only 16 cents, and he then has a srawback of 7 cents perbushel. The consequence is that the oil brought into this country in seed really pays only about 9 cents a bushel on the seed it comes in. Now, when a man raises seed in this country and ships his cake abroad he gets no drawback on cake made from the home grown seed; but if he buys foreign seed and then ships his oil cake abroad he gets his 7 cents a bushel draw back. So much advantage to the man who handles foreign seed over one who handles home grown seed. Now, the committee prooses to harmonize these things, as was said by the Gentfrom Illinois, [Mr. Wizs'r’ wou'rnj by giving to the grower of the seed ifn this country about 2/3rds what they ask or. Here the hammer fell.]