Mr. BLAINE. I move to insert on page 2, after line 11, the following: 0n lumber, pine.round, split, orsided, 3/4ths ofone cent percubic feet; when hewn square, one and one4th cent crcubie feet; whensawed, 3 dollars perthousan feet. Mr. Chairman, that amendment is in accord anee with, and corresponds precisely in the preperratio with the amendment adopted by the committee on Friday last. It imposes the precise dut reported by the Committee of IVays and onus on pine, round, split, and sided, and the same on that hewn square. The object of my amendment is simply this: the ComWays&Means, when the came to sawed lumber, have introduced, think, in its worst features, the advalorem system, because they have admenished the provincial shippers of lumber exactly at what gure to invoice their cargoes. They repose to lay a tax of one dollar perthousan on all invoiced at less than 7 dollars per 1,000, on over 7 and less than 12 dollars, 2 dollars per 1,000, and above 12 dollars, 3 dollars per 1,000. Now, I believe that we should never get any lumber invoiced at over 7 dollars 1,000under this law. It admenishes men who ship lu mberin the Provinces where to strike in their invoices, so that none of the duties contemplated can be collected under this section. Teamendment I offer proposes to make the dut specific and uniform. t ilaces the men in this country who are engage in the lumber business on an equality with the provincial lumber dealers. Owin to the greater expense of o crating in the U.S., growing large y out of our own system of internal taxation, this dut will place as just about on an equality with the provincial lumber dealers. I do not think that is an unreasonable thing to ask in a House which seems disposed to favor the protective system. We ask no advantage, but simply that we be placed on an equality, and that we shall be placed on that equality with such figures as will prevent the cheating which the advalorcm system universally gives rise to and that is here, in my judgment, incorporated in the very worst form, because it is suggestive to those who ship their cargoes just how to invoice them.