Mr. FERRY. Mr. Chairman, I was remarking when the hammer cut me short that the Provinces were protecting their commercial relations with the States by heavy duties on importations and invited the committee to profit by their example. What more have they done? They have levied an exportation duty upon saw logs of $1 25 per1,000 feet. nowing full well that their chea stump age, or value of the timber standing, andpeheaper labor and other expenses enteringinto the ro duction of logs, would drive Americans to their pineries for stock to compete successfully with them in the lumber markets of the States under even the present 20%. ad oalorem duty, which is more favorable to Americans than what is proposed by the pending bill and my amendment, they resort to self defense, like wise legislators, and impose an exportation duty. They practically say to the generous Americans, with all your generosity we must take care of our own interests 1st, and if you come to our soil to, operate we propose to make you pay for it. If I were satisfied we should have a correct valuation of lumber when imported I do not know that I would object to the reposition of the ComWays and cans, but the chairman of that committee knows that such will not be the case. The Gentfrom Massachusetts, the chairman of the ComElections, [Mr. DAWES] well said the other day that “ the experience of everybody proved an advalorem duty is the very best possible method in which the tariff can be derauded." In proof of this let me state acase. A gentleman interested in lumber, an excongressman, has written a letter in which he states that at Chicago a cargo from Canada was recently sold at 24 dollars per 1,000 feet which had been valued only at 8 dollars per 1,000. This is but one instance in which our revenue is being defrauded. The Gentfrom Illinois [ML0001:] lays great stress upon the wants of his State for cheap fencing. In regard to fencing I will say that very little comes from Canada. Fencin is cut into one and 3 8ths inches in thicness. Canadians are too smart to cut their lumber into that thickness and sell it for inch stuff. They are too shrewd to lose in stock not only but the same in transportation. The lower grades of lumber come frdm Michigan. The proposition of the ComWays&Means and a cane does not accomlish their purpose by Elbe low valuation an their low grade of duty. I have, I trust, sufficiently shown that Canadian lumber does not materially affect the rates of lumber in the markets of the States. When the treaty went into operation the prices did not decrease, and when it terminated prices declined, as quotations prove. The question, therefore, so clearly and undeniably resolves itself into one of revenue and not burden upon American industry and interests, the committee cannot refuse to sustain my amendment. By its adoption the opportunities for fraud are lessened and the system simplified. Instead of 2 divisions there will be utone; alllumber valued at ten dollars and under to pay a duty of 2 dollars, and all over ten dol ars a duty of 3 dollars. Your revenue will be increased, the interests of the States protected, and the U.S. Government saved from bein coerced into practical commercial fraud. 1 are the hammer fell.]