Mr. MOORHEAD. As my name has been introduced by the chairman of the ComWays&Means, very unexectedly to me, with regard to the tariff on can, and as I have now been referred to by my colle ue, [Mr. S'revnivs] I deem it proper that Isould say a few words on this subject. Ican only say that while I believe the chairman of the committee quoted me correctly when he referred to the Gentfrom the Pittsburg district as conceding this, yet he might have said a great deal more. He might have said that I contended for the full rate of $1 25 perton on all bitumine us coal, and that the rate proposed in this bill is a compromise. I am ver free to say, since the chairman of the committee has placed me in that position, that I did concede that point, and that I made use of this argument, which I am willing my constituents and those of every other Representative on this door should see, hear, and know as coming from me, namely, that it was unnatural that we should prevent the NewEngland manufacturers from using and procuring coal from their own mines in the Provinces, and force them to get it from the Maryland. Pennsyl vania, and Virginia coal districts, a distance of1,000 miles or more of railroad transportation. I said that in the committee, and I say it now to the House. I do not know but there is a constitutional difficulty here, and that under subsisting treaties with GreatBritain we ought not make a distinction in this regard as against one of her colonies. But I am not a constitutional law yer, and I leave that question to be settled by them. But I saw a great difficulty in discrim inating, in saying that articles coming from one country should pay a higher rate of duty than the same articles coming from another. The chairman of the committee will bear me witness that I was unwilling at any time or under any circumstances to agree that bitumi nous coal should be taxed less than $1 25 perton, which is the present rate. I wanted it increased to 2 dollars, or at least to a dollar and a half. I did concede, however, that if a discrimination could be made in favor of the coal brought from mines in thgcolonies owned by our citizens and used by them here, as against the coal of Liver ool or Newcastle, it ought to be done. In asing for a discrimination I stand here asI have always stood as the advocate of ahigh tariff. I have so etimes been censured for agreeing to call it a protective tariff. I am in favor of a protectiv rifi“. What is my object in asking or a prottive tariff? It is to roteet the manufacturers of this country and the labor of this country against the manufacturers and labor of the Old World, where labor costs less than 1/2 what it does here.