Mr. KELLEY. I will answer the question of the gentleman. There may have some small quantity of Ohio coal gone there for experiment in gas ng, or occasionally a vessel may have carried it as ballast to some western town. It is not a recognized article of commerce, and there is neither an organized company for the sale or carrying ofliitumine us can from Ohio, Virginia, or Peniisylvniiia, to the Canadas. Iad mit that there may be special cargoes shipped for gas companies in some extreme western parts of Canada, but that. does not touch the argument. But while I admit the fact, for the argumentssake, I must saythat I do not believe it, for I do not see how it can be true. The Gentfrom Vermont [Mr. Moa MLL] says the quantity of coal cannot be increased. Allow me to say that I am speaking for no Pennsylvania interest today. I am speaking for poor, wasted war trampled Virginia, for Maryland, West irginia, lxentucky, ennessec, and Missouri, for Georgia, and all the southern States. They all need our fostering care, and all have inexhaustible beds of bitumine us coal that ought to be productive. I am not willing that the rebellious people of the South shall become my political master or equal in the councils of the nation until they are politically regenerated. But I desire to deveibp their natural resources, to induce capitalists, laborers, and men of enterprise to go and settle among them, and build up industrious and peaceful Commonwealths in the hearts of whose people loyalty to the Union shall dwell. It is in these interests that I speak. The bitum ine us coal interest of eastern Pennsylvania is comparativel unimportant; but we have the only paying bitumine us coal company east of the summit of the Alleglian mountains. 30 edd millions of capital have already been invested outside of my State in this branch of the coal trade. 30 millions more have been invested in railroads to convey the coal from the mines to market, and though it is all unpro ductive, or nearly so, the owners do not aban don it as lost. They hope that, impelled by a sense of jus tice, or the pride of American citizenship, conrcss will protect them against the assaults o ritish ca ital and ill paid labor. They have waited in ope for the day when the infamous treaty which blasted their pros ects should be annulled and they be permitte to enjoy equal chances with foreigners in our own markets. Give them but. an even chance, burdened as the are by our war taxes, and all these dead mil ons will become productive. I challenge any member of the House to name another bitumine us coal company than the Westmore land Company that has paid or earned a div idend in the last 3 years on the eastern slope of the mountains. Give them protec ltion equal to the taxes, direct and incidental, which you impose upon them, and you will find that instead of the product of 1867 being but 2 million tons, as it was last year, we can reduce 95 million tons, as EnglandU did in that same year. Our fields are broader and richer than hers and those of Nova Scotia combined. They are scattered from the mount ain above the clouds, on the brows of which Hooker and his brave comrades fought, east ward and northward and westward all over our country.