Mr. ELLIOT. Then I HIOVG, proformn, to strike out the words “one bundled weight, " and insert “ 100 pounds." I desire. in reply to a remark just made by the Gentfrom Vermont, [Mr. Momma”? to say that he is underagreatmisapprehension as to the present price of dried cod fish. If this bill passes as reported by the committee, at present prices the business cannot be continued. Ie speaks of it now as commanding in the market the price of 7 dollars, 8 dollars, and 9 dollars perquinutl. Sir, there are. now 10,000 quintals in a.single port in my district which may be had from $3 50 to S4 50 peruintal. lhe gentleman, lfear, has been speaking without accurate knowledge of the price of this article. I have seen the price current to which the gentleman refers, and I am stating what is the actual fact, that in the markets of Philadelphia this article is now sold at the prices I have named, and that at the port to which I have referred there is the amount I have named which can be had at that price. It costs more than 4 dollars perqnintal to catch and cure that fish. The prices now upon the average are less than the cost of taking and curing them. During the time the large Army demand existed prices were high, but durinv the past season they have not been high. have upon my table statistics showing the prices which t to catch of certain vessels has produced, and I. could demonstrate, if it was at all desir i able, that although prices have been exag gerated because of the war, yet they are now i on the decline. Let me state one fact more. In the 2 counties of Yarmouth and Shelburnc, in Nova Scotia, they are now building vessels and preparing for a catch of not less than one llunt red and 50,000 quintals during the next year. If this bill should pass as it now stands, it will be utterly imposstble for us to compete with them, because we have to pay about 100 dollars a ton for our vessels ready for the outfit, while in Canada they can be procured for 33 dollars a ton, and we have to pay more than twice as much for the outfit as they do. So that the protection afforded by the amendment of the Gentfrom Maine [Mr. PIKE] is quite as little protection as ought to be given by this House. It ought not to be reduced; an therefore I hope that the amendment of the Gentfrom Vermont [Mr. vMouton] will not prevail.