There is a large and important industry in the manufacture of cigars at Key West. Florida. composing a very enterprising and intelligent population who have become citizens of the United States and engaged in that business there. The other day. owing to apprehensions on the part of some Senators of a ruinous competition between the Asiatic tobacco and the leaftobacco grown in this country for wrappers. a high prohibitory rate of duty was imposed on the tobacco used in the manufacture at Key West of Cuban tobacco or Havana tobacco. which is almost exclusively used there. The Havana tobacco does not come in competition with any of the tobacco raised in the United States. There is not enough leaftobacco grown in the United States. together with all the Havana tobacco imported. sufficient to meet the demand. and it was simply included as a matter of necessity in the high duty imposed for the exclusion of the Asiatic tobacco. The persons engaged in this industry. amounting to several thousand people in Key West. have remonstrated. and exhibited that that rate of duty is entirely prohibitory of the importation of tobacco from Havana and the West India Islands. Now.