Mr. EDMUNDS. My friendfrom Maine, if we were to judge by his debates, is unable to see any other part of the country except that rock bound coast up there where they distill Alber tite into oil. That is the only interest which really deserves the highest kind of protection, if we are to take his counsel for it, that there is in the U.S. Now, I wish to in form the Senfrom Maine, or rather to remind him, because he does not need to be informed, that the data I am speaking from as to the production of these marbles, the cost of them, and all that, he can find in any recent encyclopedia which contains the head “marble” or “Carrara marble;” and there he will find the cost of foreign labor, the amount of production, the classification of the marble, the markets to which it is exported; and I will read for the information of my friendfrom Maine a memorandum which I have made myself from the 4th volume of the American Encyclopedia, which is to be found in the Congressional Library, and which was not got up by workers of Vermont marble to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief, to show what this foreign production is, how it is classified, and what a very eminent English statistician, writing on this subject, says is done with it. 1st, as to the foreign product: Carrara furnishes of statuary blocks, the kind that my friendfrom Maine is willing to foagainst, only 2, 900 tons a year. The only other foreign product of statuary blocks is Massa, which furnishes a rather inferior kind, and which only produced in 1862 or 1863, when this o: dia article was written, 106 tons. Of other marble in blocks Carrara produced 46, 367 tons; Massa, 2, 792 tons. Then in slabs Carrara produced 5, 518 tons, and Massa, 1,511, making a total production of Carrara marble of 54, 785 tons, of which, as I have said, only 2, 900 tons were statuary, and the total product of Massa 4, 409 tons. Of this annual product from these quarries now I quote from the English writer on the subject, and not from the Vermont marble men “about half that in blocks” (that in cludes the statuary and all others in blocks, making about 50,000 tons) “is exported to the U.S., which appears to be a steady and good market.” Now, I quote further from the American Encyclopedia when I say that the cost of labor at Carrara does not exceed 45 cents per day for common labor, 60 cents per day for skilled labor, and 88 cents per day for the best and most intelligent workmen. The London prices for these mar bles, taken from the same book, are as follows: of the highest and best quality of statuary 14 to 15 dollars per cubic foot; the 1st uality of the other kinds which come in under this proposition at 50 cents per foot, from 7 to 8 dollars per foot; the 2nd uality 3 to 4 dollars per foot; and other talian marble, not the Carrara, one to 3 dollars. Thus it will be perceived that the data to which I have referred do not depend upon the statements of interested parties, but do depend upon the general information which men engaged in scientific pursuits, in getting up sta tistics for the general information of all countries, collect from responsible and authoritative sources. That is where the information comes from; and if my friend will inquire of his NewYork marble workers, who appear to have been before him, and ask them how much they invoice this marble at per cubic foot, and how much they swear it costs them at the port of exportation, (which is what they call now adays the protective way of importing goods, to take the foreign cost and not the home value which is not my doctrine,) he will find that have not understated the cost on which they pay duty a single cent a foot, and that they only pay a duty, including charges and every thing else, at such a rate as to make the cost to them in the city of NewYork only a little over 2 dollars per cubic foot. They sell it for $5 50, as my friend has the information they do, if he has had the dealers in NewYork before him; and I only speak of NewYork as one port illustrating the others, being the principal port. Can my friend tell me that I have overstated or understated this price at $5 50, theNopwric, ejutsot the trade in the city of NewYork? look at it in another point of view and see how it has worked for revenue. If the Senator will turn to the volume of Commercial Relations he will discover that I have not quoted from the Vermont men for this; he will see that when the tariff which he says was made in 1864 was passed, raising the duty to 50 cents per foot, and 20%. adorem, there was imported in the year 1864 marble to the value of $108, 476, the duties on which were $43, 390. That of course was before the act of 1864 took effect. In 1865, under the operation of that act, while the importation was reduced in value to $84, 631, the duties rose to $81, 855, making an absolute increase to the revenue on this one article alone at that one port of $38, 215.