Mr. TRUMBULL. I hope that amendment will not be adopted. I do notsce any reason, and was not satisfied with those given by the Senfrom Ohio, why'we should now postpone the collection of this direct tax. I have had some conversation with some )OX‘SOBS who have been officers under the law or the collection of this tax in the rebellious States. I know it may be suggestedthat they are interested; that is true. They would be interested as odicers; but still they would be better informed on this subject than anybody else, and it is not to be presumed that the interest they would have in holding the office would so warp their judg ments that they could not give correct information in regard to the effect of this tax. I do not think that the people are less able t to pay this tax in the rebellious States than in other portions of the country. I do not believe in making this exception in favor of men who have been disloyal to the Government. I understand that loyal men, to a great extent have paid this tax in the rebellious States, an that those who are disloyal contest the law. Many of them say that the law is invalid; that Congress has no right to assess this tax upon them, and they are not going to pay it. Now, sir, the truth about it is, there is a great deal of money in the South. I was in formed a short time ago, by a very influential banker from NewOrleans, who had resided there for a quarter of a century before the war, and was recently engaged in the banking business in that city, that the amount of do osits of money in the city of NewOrleans was arger than ever before; and he said to me that there was more money in the South than he had ever known to be there. The cotton that was found in the South at th close of the war, at the extravagant prices whlich it brought, took to that country more money for that crop than had ever been received before for any previous crop. It is not true that there is no moncyin the South. This tax is a tax assessed upon land. It reaches these aristocratic land holders of the South, the wealthy persons. They are much better able to pay this tax than 1000s of our constituents at home; and it will be much more difficult to collect this tax in 1868 than it is now. The tax is partly paid. It has been partially collected in some of these rebellious States. I do not know thatit has been on tirely collected in any of the m; perhaps it has been in Tennessee. I do not know how that is; but it has been partially collected, I presume, in all of them. Now, it seems to me it will be difficult to discriminate. It is going to complicate the matter. Suppose those States, in 1868, ask to pay this tax as the northern States did. Suppose the State of Georgia, if you please, upon whom a tax was assessed, according to representation, of, say a million dollars. I have not the statute before me, and do not remember the precise amount