Mr. KELLEY. I move to amend by striking out in the 47th and 48th lines the words “ one dollar” and inserting in lieu thereof the words “ 70 cents;” so that the clause will read, “on vcined marble and marble of all other descritionsnot herein otherwise provided for, in b ock, rough or s uared, 70 cents percubic foot.” I0or this amendment because, in my judgment, it allows a sufficiently liberal increase upon an interest which I think is adequately protected now; while the new rate ro osed in the bill will exclude an article which we cannot produce in this countr. The present duty amounts to 100%. Italian marble sold in the market at auction and it is all sold at auction sells at from 63 to 65 cents percubic foot; and the present duty is 50 cents perfoot and 20%. advat orem, making a duty of about 63 cents. The Italian marble does not compete with our American marble. It is needed for such work as that b'efore you, Mr. Chairman, requiring a high polish and shar lines, and for monuments which are expose to the Weather. Our American marble and we produce it in the townslii adjoining my district is too or ous. It will not bear exosure to the weatger. It absorbs liquids and is tarnished by th.m. It is easily affected by acids. It is not suitable for monuments. And now, at a period when a grateful people all over our broad country are striving to erect monuments which shall be enduring to the brave men who have died to save their country, the legislation proposed will either prevent the making of those monuments of marble or constrain their construction of an article not durable, an article easily defaceable, an article which, exposed to our variable climate, will scarcely live through the generation and preserve the lettering upon its face. There is in this whole bill no item in reference to which such a duty as this is proposed. Upon kid gloves the duty is but 50 cents. Upon various manufactured articles the duty ranges from 15 to 50 cents. Yet here upon a raw material, which really does not come in conflict with any of our own products, we propose to put a duty of 150%. I say that it does not come in conflict with any native product, because our American marble is bought before it is quar ried. It is bought in the quarry. It never has to find its way to auction or to public sale. In our Pennsylvania quarries and in those of Ver mont, strata are new, [venture to say, marked with the owner‘s name, havin been bought as they lay where nature place them, and now waiting to be gotten out. The duty on this article is now, as I have said, about 63 cents, or 100%. 70 cents, an increase of 7 cents, wilfcompensate for the prevailing high prices and derangement in labor, and will leave our American marble ad equately protected against Italian competition forany purposes for which marble is fit.