Mr. KELLEY. I rise to oppose the amendment. I consider ten cents to be an ine rdinate tax on this article. Indeed, I think wine should have had no tax upon it. Iunderstaud a tax of 5 cents a gnllon is equivalent to a tax of 15 or 20%. upon the article. That is a higher rate than we have proposed on most other products. Gentlemen say it is an article ofluxury. It. ought not to be an article ofluxury, and if we look to the health and temperance of our people we will not treat it as a matter of luxury. Could our home grown wines abound so that all our people could drink them, as they do in France and Germany, we would presentin our morals a blessed contrast to our present condition. Wherever wine is cheap pure native wine the people are temperate. It enters into their daily use. Wherever it is dear, as in England and Scotland, intemperance marks in an important degree the life of the lower orders of the people. This is a new branch of industry. Its machinery, its customs, are not yet established. I would take the whole tax 011until we shall have vineyards in every part of the country and our manufacturers shall be so skilled in the production of wine that we will say in this country, as they do in France when they want to indicate the extreme poverty of a laboring man “Why he is so poor that he does not drink wine for his dinner.” We make a great mistake when we impose any tax on a new branch of industry that connects itself in so important a way as this does at once with the sanitary condition of the people, and with their morals. Sir, the American people are more afflicted with that terrible disease dyspepsia than any other; and why? Because almost every other people on the face of the globe, at least within the ounds ofChristendom, indulge in acid wines, and they are cheap. Instead of that, here such wine is a luxury. It is continually prescribed to the rich dyspeptic, while the poor laboring man on the shoemakers or tailors seat. cannot get the specific, because it is so expensive. I would cheapen it by remov in all taxation from it. iHere the hammer fell.] Mr. McRUER. I withdraw the amendment to the amendment.