Mr. FESSENDEN. I have no advantage whatever in contending with the Senator, and I do not wish any except such as facts may entitle me to. I stated that this article produced about 100 gallons of crudeoil to the ton. I have seen the gentleman since, and he says that the refined oil is about 60 or 65 gallons to the ton after it is rendered fit for use; and he says further that, exclusive of the cost of the coal, it costs from 30 to 35 cents a gallon to manufacture the oil. To impose a high duty on coal used in that way is not according to the principles of this bill. The principles of this bill are to admit raw material as low as possible for the benefit of manufactures from the raw may terial. But, sir, I take the Senator's own words and I put the case thus: we have put our capital into it I say we; I do not mean myself, for I have no interest in it; we have erected our mill, if you please to call it a mill; we have been at all this expense; we employ American citizens; and the mine is owned 3 quarters of it by American citizens instead of by foreigners, as the Senator seems to suppose. Now, the question is whether that having been done in good faith under the reciprocity treaty, being introduced as coal and being coal, the Senate is ready to say that because it is not a native product, they will break down at once and destroy all this capital and throw these men out of employment, because there is a mine in WestVirginia that certain gentlemen in NewYork have bought, and they want to exclude everything else from the country that can come into competition with them. The Senator says the man who works the WestVirginia mine has no protection. Why, sir, in the 1st place there is $125 a ton; in the next place the coal is right there on the spot where he erects the mills; he has nothing to pay for transporting it, while we are. i to bring ours from Nova Scotia. He has that additional protection, and then he can manufacture the oil just as cheap as we can or cheaper on account of the difference in labor and other things. Is not that protection? What the Senator demands for his constituents is that Albertite shall be excluded from the country, and that this business of ours, under taken in good faith under the reciprocity treaty, shall be destroyed, the capital destroyed, and the men thrown out of employment. I take his own words for it. I say it is a most unreasonable demand. The amendment to The amendment was agreed to.