Mr. KELLEY. I rise to oppose the amendment of the Gentfrom Iowa. The gentleman is not familiar with the process of blanket making. He cannot be familiar with the process of making fine cloths such as those which gentlemen wear in their dress coats and ladies in their habits. He cannot be familiar with the constituents of “ Irish frieze” and “ Pe terboro’, ” or he would not talk thus. Shoddy is one of the elements of the softest blankets made for the infant’s cradle or the bridal bed. [Laughter] Gentlemen laugh; being bach elors they are not acquainted with such things. [Laughter.] The finest cloth receives its exquisite softness of touch from shoddy. I admit, that like every otheringredient, it may be used for purposes of adulteration, and in excess. Ours is the only country that permits woolen rags to be exported. Prussia prohibits it absolutely; and British manufacturers have moved their machinery and capital to Berlin to establish shoddy mills as they would do in America if we prohibited the export of our woolen rags. France also prohibited their export; and when Chevalier and Cobden made their treaty, France agreed to admit their export, but she cheated England by making the tax, or duty, prohibitory. The woolen rags we export contain the elements of some of the finest igments used by artists. From the dust of the shoddy manufactory you get that which gives the appearance to the finest papers that emvbeelvlleist: our saloons. In England, from the factories of Battly and Dewsbury, in the West Riding of Yorkshire, this material is derived. There is not one element in woolen rugs gathered by the chiffoniers on the streets that goes to waste. There is not a raw material that yields so small, so imperceptible a% a e of waste as this. It is used to the last partic e in manufactures and the arts., When 1837 and 1857 were marked by commercial bankruptcy, from one end of our country to the other, the shoddy manufactures of England were closed; and only for 2 years in their history did their laborers live on public charity. Those were the years following the great commercial crises of 1837and 1857, when there was a sto page of the American market. for shoddy goodii. Let the raw material come in. Let us make blankets that will drive out English blankets. Let us make our own “Irish frieze" and “ Peterboro’ frosted beaverrf Let us be able to rival England and France, and other European nations, in makingthose cloths, in which softness and fineness of texture are required, but in which durability is not expected.