Mr. MORRILL. Mr. Chairman, this coal question is, I think, rather the pivot upon which this whole subject hangs. I desire to submit a few additional remarks to what I have alread made. In m judgment there is not an artic c among the whole products of the country which is so justly to be subjected to competition as coal. What have we seen in the last few cars? Speculation has run mud in our coalelds throughout the country, and people have been seeking to makefortunes out oft emin a day, and with success. Prices of coal have been enormous and now we are asked to give greater protection to the coal interest or it wilI be utterly prostrated. I Sir, the thing cannot be done. Take the coal of western Penns lvauia, where it has to be transmitted neary 350 miles. The ordinary freight upon coal. cannot be afforded at less than about 2 cents permile. Certainly, in my art of the country transportation of any kin of freight cannot be a orded for less than that. Now, that we should undertake here to give protection that will make a market for coal not only 350 miles distant from the mines, but 3 or 400 in addition to that, is, in my judgment, asking a little too much. There is another suggestion connected with freights which while I am on the floor I will discuss, and that was the question alluded to by the Gentfrom Illinois [Mia HARDlNG] asto protection of agricultural reductions in this bill. The question of the toristands here on corn and wheat precisely where it has always stood. It will benefit the man in Illinois just as much as the man in NewEngland. There is no difference. Then, why this, outery against NewEngland? Our farmers are really more exposed to the competition of Canada than the Vest. Why, when you come to the protection of NewEngland, our place of consumption is at home, an that is our greatest protection. "Ihe West will have it in due time. The giant is already born and will wax in strength until it eclipses NewEngland altogether. Ten cents upon corn might be to the same advantage in NewEngland that it would be in Ohio or in Illinois; but corn in NewEngland being worth $1 25 a bushel, protection cannot of course overcome the distance so that corn in Illinois will bring the same price, but it will receive the benefit of ten cents, and that is all NewEngland corn receives. It does look to me as though we were contending for very inconsiderable matters. If the Gentfrom Maryland [Mr. FTHOMAS] and the Gentfrom Pennsylvania