Mr. HOGAN. I move to increase it to one dollar. The Gentfrom Iowa [Mr. will sox] is entirely mistaken in reference to this whole feature of this bill. This part of it is the only part that looks to the advantage of the laborer. The mechanic who has spent 7 years of apprenticeship in learning to cut marble and fashion it to make monuments, is he now, sir, to be deprived of all opportunity of following that trade by the introduction of the Italian finished monument? It is a matter of fact now that there is hardly anyone man in this country who asa mechanic is working in marble, for the simple reason that the importer of monuments can send out his models and drawings to Italy and have them made there and brought back at the present duties at a rate that would not pay the mechanic in this country for cutting them. I want to know whether gentlemen of this House are so much opposed to the interests of the laborer that in this simple matter for the interest of labor only, exclusively for the interest of labor, they will cut it. down to this extent. I know that monuments are now made in Italy. Orders are going out to Italy for monuments that would he made in the U.S. but from the fact that the foreign article can come in at such a rate finished that the mechanic here cannot live on. It is the interest of the mechanic I look to. I have in my town over 2500 men who have been engaged in working marble who are‘now out of employment. It is not because the' employers would not give them work, not because there are no more monuments being erected, but because monuments can be obtained and deliv ered at StLouis, 1300 miles from the sea, cheaper than any mechanic could afford to make them. I want to prevent all that kind of thing. If our mechanics, who have served an apprenticeship, are to be deprived of their business because of the discrimination made in favor of the pauper labor of Italy, let us know it. Sir, the mechanical labor that is employed on monuments is the 1st inception of the sculptor. Our greatest sculptors have risen from the beginning of workingin marble. The Gentfrom Pennsylvania has so beauti fully depicted this, I will not go into it further than to say that many of the men who make these monuments are the men who will supply us with our Powerses and Hosmers and cele brated sculptors, and in order to afford their labor protection I hope my amendment will be adopted.