Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Chairman, in the multitude of amendments I fail to see any improvement of the bill reported to the House, while I feel quite sure the Gentfrom Ohio [Mr. Seusxen] and his coadjutors are destined to triumph in anything he shall demand. I shall content myself, so far as representingthe ComWays&Means, in having a votein the House on whatever proposition may be introduced into the bill. I am quite satisfied gentlemen are mistaken that it is the excise law which has reall caused the depression in the tobacco trade. this Universal. It pervades all sections of the country. It is as much felt in the Connecticut ved as in Ohio or in Wisconsin. The difficult, whatever gentlemen may say, was that at the close of the war, a large amount of tobacco was let loose from the South. Gentlemen may suppose tobacco can be grown in latitude 40 iive or 40 ase hcaply as at the South, but they are mistaken. They will always produce to bacco at the South, especially the lower grades, chca er than it can be done at the North. It has icon in consequence of this influx of tobacco from the South that the tobacco trade has been depressed. I will say, in addition, that the revision these gentlemen wish to put upon the law now exists, and hence our woes, for the cigars imported are imported under the lowest valuation. We have no cigars ayinga duty above the rate of 15 dollars. t will operate in the same wayif this provision be adopted. There is another thing in regard to the intro duction of foreign cigars. They are smuggled in. I wish some process could be found out by which we could prevent the large amount of smuggling now practiced. I have had occasion to say before the amount of smu ling of ci are is immense. I believe the regu ar steams ips from NewYork to Cuba smuggle in more cigars than puly he and will sdautiyu.rther, in relation to this subject of cigars, that gentlemen must understand the pipe has grown s mewhat more fashionable since the war, and that many who used cigars now use pipes. [Here the hammer fell.]