Mr. JOHNSON. move to amend the amendment of the ComFinance by striking out lines 17 to 24, inclusive, of section 13, on pages 84 and 85, and inserting in lieu thereof: coaOln, candlc or canncl coal, and on all bitumine us $1 50. ' ton of 28 bushels, cighty pounds to the bushel. Mr. President, the bill as it stands in those parts of it, which the amendment proposes to strike out levies a duty of $1 50 a ton upon bitumine us coal brought from a certain region of country, and it levies a duty of only 50 cents upon coal brought from a distance inside of a described line. The Senate will see by looking at the line which is described that the effect of it will be that nearly all the coal that is imported from abroad will be subjected only to the duty of 50 cents, as nearly all the coal which is imported is brought from inside of that line. Now, as I stated the day before yesterday, if that duty alone is imposed upon the bitumine us coal, it will very materially injure, if it does not entirely destroy, the use of the bitumine us coal of the U.S. The bill, in a line which I do not propose to strike out for if that interest needed the protection I would vote for it proposes $1 50 a ton upon anthracite coal. Pennsylvania does not need that protection, there being, as I understand, il. if any anthracite coal imported into the U.S. It is an article which almost exclusively belongs to Pennsylvania, and is a source of great wealth to her. But the bitumine us coal is common to Maryland, common to WestVirginia, common to several of the western States, and is very extensively, and must be very extensively, used throughout the U.S., for various purposes, for fuel for manufacturing purposes, or the production of gas, for steamboat fuel, and it is becoming a very extensive article of sale and consequently of wealth to the U.S. The whole effect of the provision as it stands in the bill will be to protect the manufacturers, who can be oby foreign coal this side of the described line, paying a duty only of 50 cents, which will render it impossiblefor the Maryland miner or the WestVirginia miner or the Kentucky miner to compete in the markets with that coal. The whole effect of my amendment, therefore, will be to strike out the distinction, so as to levy a duty of $1 50 per ton upon all bitumine us coal; and I hope that, looking to the purpose which we all have in view and the necessity of protecting all, the Senate will concur in the amendment.