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was the duty of the Senate to do it ; but years 

 passed by, and I determined that if nothing 

 was done this year I would introduce a bill 

 and send it to the committee to be perfected, 

 and then let us see if we can not do justice to 

 all the people of this broad land. I do not 

 want a tariff bill passed for the purpose of en- 

 riching the State of Connecticut. I desire no 

 such thing. I shall be found not voting for 

 any such thing. I may be mistaken, but I be- 

 lieve that there is not a Senator on this floor 

 who can give his time to this question. That 

 is the first thing. Can my distinguished friend 

 from Delaware, the head of this committee, 

 give six months' time, a year's time, to this 

 work? No. Can my friend from Georgia? 

 No. Can ray friend from South Carolina? 

 No. Can my friend from Missouri? No; not 

 one man of you can do it. It is impossible. 

 One would suppose, to hear my distinguished 

 friend from Texas, that all that was needed 

 was a little jaunt, to go to Saratoga or Long 

 Branch or somewhere else, and eat dinners, 

 and that would be all. That does not help to 

 discriminate between all the great interests of 

 the country. It relates to consumption, as 

 my friend from Delaware suggests. The gen- 

 tlemen who have this matter in charge have 

 got to take up and examine four thousand dif- 

 ferent articles; have got to see what enters 

 into the manufacture of every great thing in 

 this country. 



" Here are dye-stuffs, with a high tax upon 

 them. In the British market they are pur- 

 chased free, brought here and a high tax im- 

 posed, and these dye-stuffs used to color the 

 fabrics produced by American industry, and 

 yet you expect those fabrics to be produced 

 just as low as they could be if there was no 

 tax whatever on the raw material. 



" I have a history about wool that I wish 

 right here to direct the attention of the Sen- 

 ate to. One of the great agricultural subjects, 

 nearly the greatest subject, is sheep industry, 

 dependent entirely upon manufacturing in- 

 dustry, whether the commission be established 

 under my bill or under the bill of the Senator 

 from Arkansas dependent upon it entirely to 

 the last clipping of the last sheep. In the 

 United States there are to-day forty million 

 sheep. The clip this year is estimated to be 

 two hundred and twenty million pounds. It 

 was two hundred and eleven million pounds in 

 1878. 



" Of this the State so ably represented by 

 my friend from California [Mr. Farley] has 

 6,561,000 sheep, with a clip of more than 50,- 

 000,000 pounds, dependent entirely upon the 

 manufacturing industries of the country. Texas 

 has 3,674,700 sheep, with a clip of over 30,- 

 000,000 pounds. Well might my honorable 

 friend say, ' Oh, no, I will not take the tax off 

 wool unless you take it off iron.' New York 

 has 1,518,000 sheep, with a clip of 10,000,000 

 pounds. Ohio has 4,000,000 sheep, with a 

 clip of 35,000,000 pounds, dependent entirely 



upon the great manufacturing industries of the 

 country. Pennsylvania has 1,600,000 sheep, 

 with a clip of 10,000,000 pounds. Indiana 

 has 1,100,000 sheep, with a clip of 7,000,000 

 pounds. Illinois has 1,260,000 sheep, with a 

 clip of 7,000,000 pounds. Oregon has 1,100,- 

 000 sheep, with a clip of 7,000,000 pounds. 

 Wisconsin has 1,300,000 sheep, with a clip of 

 8,000,000 pounds. Iowa has 600,000 sheep, 

 with a clip of 4,000,000 pounds. Colorado has 

 700,000 sheep, with a clip of 4,000,000 pounds. 

 It will be, next to Texas, the great sheep-walk 

 of the world. I do not except Australia. I 

 say Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado will be 

 the great sheep-walk of the world, all depen- 

 dent upon manufacturing industry, all depen- 

 dent upon a proper revenue tariff. Michigan 

 has 2,000,000 sheep, with a clip of 12,000,000 

 pounds. North Carolina has 500,000 sheep, 

 with a clip of 3,000,000 pounds. Georgia has 

 400,000 sheep, with a clip of 2,000,000 pounds. 

 Alabama has 300,000 sheep, with a clip of 

 1,000,000 pounds. Mississippi has 300,000 

 sheep, with a clip of 1,000,000 pounds. Ten- 

 nessee has 1,000,000 sheep, with a clip of 

 5,000,000 pounds. West Virginia has 600,000 

 sheep, with a clip of 4,000,000 pounds. Vir- 

 ginia has 500,000 sheep, with a clip of 3,000,- 

 000 pounds. Vermont has 500,000 sheep, with 

 a clip of 3,000,000 pounds. Arkansas has 

 300,000 sheep, with a clip of 1,000,000 pounds. 

 New Hampshire has 250,000 sheep, with a clip 

 of 1,000,000 pounds. Maine has 550,000 sheep, 

 with a clip of 3,000,000 pounds. There are 

 very few in some of the States, very few in 

 my own little State. 



" Let it be understood I am not arguing for 

 taking the tariff duties off, no matter what my 

 views may be upon that subject; but the Sen- 

 ator from Kentucky in the close of his speech 

 goes one step further than I have ever been 

 willing to go, and I only want to take this 

 very illustration of wool. The clip this year 

 will be nearly two hundred and twenty mil- 

 lion pounds. This great industry, covering 

 the whole country, is dependent entirely up- 

 on the manu factoring industries of the coun- 

 try. Now, when these commissioners assemble, 

 whether they be under my bill or the bill of 

 the Senator from Arkansas, they have got to 

 take into consideration what? How little 

 duty can be put upon this great agricultural 

 industry of the country. There are forty mil- 

 lion sheep, with a clip of two hundred and 

 twenty million pounds to be taken care of, be- 

 cause the wool of Continental Europe can be 

 brought here and sold cheaper than we can 

 raise it; and therefore there w^ould be an utter 

 destruction of forty million sheep except for 

 butchering purposes unless a tariff were put 

 upon wool. 



" How little can it be ? My friend said there 

 was 104 per cent, duty on blankets. The hon- 

 orable Senator from Kentucky has not exam- 

 ined that question. There is nominally 104 

 per cent, duty, but there is not really 50 per 



