A blank was handed to each sub-committee, which, after fifteen days' discussion, was to be filled and returned.
On the appointed day the venerable President took the chair (official style, for it was only a stool) and found upon the table (official style, again, for it was a deal plank across a barrel) a dozen reports, which he read in succession.
The first presented was that of the tailors.

Here it is, as accurately as if it had been photographed: RESULTS OF PROTECTION--REPORT OF THE TAILORS.
_Disadvantages._ |_Advantages._ | 1.

On account of the protective tariff, we pay | None.
more for our own bread, meat, sugar, thread, | etc., which is equivalent to a considerable | 1.

We have examined diminution of our wages.

| the question in | every light, and 2.