Mr. SCHENCK. There are about 90 in the 6 western States which are interested in this matter; and the whole interest, instead of being 'one that deserves to be spoken of contemptuously, I undertake to say involves $8,000,000 annually. I tell him, sir, that the flaxseed at its market price, raised annually in the 6 States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, and Kentucky, amounts to a little over $5, 250,000; that manufactured itproduces $0,000,000 worth of oil annually, and $2,000,000 worth ofoil cake which is exported and sold abroad without the drawback which these eastern gentlemen get the benefit of when the exort oil cake made from foreign seed. tell im that the labor, the gunny bags, the cooper age, and the transportation to the eastern mar ket of tlfis oil cake for shipment adds so much more that it becomes an interest of $10,000,000 annually before it reaches the market and it does not become the chairman of the ComWays&Means, instructinv this House, to stand upin his place and spea contemptuously of this interest, as if it were a matter affecting only halfa dozen crushers west of the Allegheny mountains. Sir, we want these 5 and a uarter millious’ worth of seed to receive some ttle protection. We want a protection like that which is given to almost every other industrial pursuit or production provided for in this bill; and because we ask a ‘ittle protection of this sort a great interest is to be spoken of in this contemptuous manner, as though it were some small matter outat the West not worthy the notice of gentlemen living upon the Atlantic sea board. Sir, we can comprehend why these gentlemen want to bring in seed from abroad and manufacture it into oil; they want to break down the western interest and buy our seed cheap, and let us manufacture none at home. It is all in the way of business. We can understand how they can go for a low tariff when nearly all the oil cake made for the feed of cattle is used abroad, and little or none in this country. It finds its wa after manufacture from the West to the sea card, and from the East directly abroad, and they get a drawback of 7 cents upon it, thus reducing the tariff which they pay to something like 9 cents instead of 16.