Mr. KELLEY. I renew the amendment of the Gentfrom NewYork [Mr. DAVIS] in order to say a word or 2 in explanation of what a pear to be facts stated by the gentleman wm has just taken his seat, [Mr. HUM PHllE] Nothing better demonstrates the importance of protection as protection than the very facts he has disclosed here. As I have had occasion to say before since this bill came under discussion, our manufactures and arts have been living independentof all question of tariff whether it be protective or free trade. The difference between gold and currency, and the fact that duties were paid' in gold, has been.the protection, and under that protection the salt interest of Michigan made the marvelous progress that the Gentfrom NewYork [1 Mr. HUMPHlll ZY] has indicated. But when our currency came to be within 25 or 30 cents of gold, the salt fac tories of the Northwest closed with the iron fac tories of Pennsylvania and the woolen and cot ton factories of the country. Give us now a tariff, not that shall be protective, in any generous sense, but that shall countervail the in fluence of the internalrevenue taxes imposed on our industry by the war, and we will soon produce salt enough to supply the country. It is not hoped that either WestVirginia or Michigan will supply NewEngland. The rates fixed in the bill and those are the rateswhich I hope the House will adhere to, for the committee seems to have given that subject consideration the rates fixed in the bill willadmit quite as much salt into NewEngland and into all our const ports, in proportion to any enlarged demand that may w as the existin rates will. The only milisifce’will be that thg Government will derive something more of revenue; and with a generous western market, and with the border States restored, and the coal and iron regions of WestVirginia and southern Ohio in full blast, Michigan, NewYork, and WestVirginia will give us as good salt as we have ever had, and cheaper than the American people have heretofore been accus tomed to. [Here the hammer fell.]