Mr. COOK. I suppose that, according to the views that have been advanced heretofore by the Gentfrom NewYork, [Mr. Bnooxs] he must believe that if he gives us a reasonable protection upon our beef, he will get beef in NewYork both chea er and fatter than he has ever got it before. hat I understand to be the logical deduction from the argument which he used to present; I do not know whether he presents it now. A day or 2 ago the Gentfrom MarylandlgMr. F. Tnoaas] appealed successfully to this House to have the tariff raised upon coal. The reasons urged by the gentleman were these: 1st, that the coal of Maryland, having a large land transportation, could not compete successfull With the coal of NewBrunswick on the sea oard, which is the point of competition. He also insisted that free trade in coal had been disastrous to the miners of Maryland and the ceal interests of Maryland and the House adopted his reasoning by raising the tariff on coal. Now, upon the same principle, as the coal of Maryland could not compete with the coal of NewBrunswick until it got to the sea board, the point of competition, no more can western agricultural products compete with the products of Canada until we come to Buffalo; and inasmuch as NewBrunswick coal at the point of competition costs less than Maryland coal, so the agricultural products of Canada at the point of competition cost less than the prod ucts of Illinois and Iowa. These things are so. Strike off this protection, and the agricultural interests of ll ine is are precisel where the coal interests of Marylan would be without protection. Now, there should be some little protection of the agricultural interests of the west to enable our agriculturists to compete successfully with the agriculturists of Canada at the point of competition, and that is Buffalo. I ca lthe attention of the committee to this fact, that in raising the tariff upon the different articlesmentioned in this bill, we have raised the tariff upon fish, upon dried cod fish and mackerel, the Unithings from NewEngland used to any extent in Illinois and Iowa. ou have raised the tariff on coal, which enters into the value of every article of machinery which we use, of every farming implement we use, for their price is graduated to some extentb the price of coal. You have raised the price of these things upon us in the West by the alterations made in this tarilf since it has been reported to this House. I believe, and I am willing to say it here, that the system of internalrevenue and of the tariff have been so arranged in this House as to operate most injuriously upon the agricultural interests of the West, and if western men think as I do about this matter, we will contrive some means to have a fair showin this matter in time to come. If we are called upon to protect eastern interests, and to adjust our tarilf for protection, we must have them adusted in such a manner that we of the West an our interests shall receiveequal rotcction.