Mr. BUNDY. ibout 2 dollars and 40 cents perton. With that duty, 45 furnaces in my district made no money at all last year, but in the majority of cases they lost‘ money to the extent of the internal duty which they paid. Now, so far as I am concerned, I do not speak for the manufacturers. I do not care anything about the matter, although I am a manufacturer. The manufacturer and the capitalist can get alon with or without the duty; but the effects of this fall directly upon the man who di the iron, the man who chops the wood, and the man who burns the coal. L have seen, during the last ten or 12 years, enough suffering in the districts where pig iron is manufactured to induce me, by ever consideration, to try and have that manufacture protected to an extent sufficient to furnish employment to our own people, and not only employment, but a fair day’s wages for a fair day’s work. It is a very great mistake to suppose that because we ask protection for the manufacture of any article the expense of the article to the consumer is thereby increased. Take, if you please, the report which I hold in my hand for the month of November last as the criterion by which to judge of the whole year’s importation of iron from Europe. During the last 12 months there was enough pig iron imported into this country to keep 90 blast furnaces fully employed. These 90 furnaces can furnish employment for at least 54,000 persons, and these 50 4,000 persons will consume45,000 barre s of flour and 9,000 barrels of pork every year, to say nothing about beef and everything else. Therefore, I say, the stopping of these 90 furnaces, kept idle by the importation. of pig iron last year, has prevented the employment of this large num lier of persons and the consumption of this vast amount of our own produce. We do not ask, Mr. C iairman, that protection shall be furnished for the more protection of our manufacturers, but we do ask it for the men who are employed at these manufactories; and until we come up to that point we will suffer under the same rule which we have been following for the last few 'ears. Here the hammer fell]