Mr. EDMUNDS. I will remind my friend that since 1864, when, as he says, my constituents got this fixed to suit themselves, there has been a very heavy increase of internalrevenue taxes, and the marble workers of Vermont and every other State because, I beg to remind him that this is not merely a Vermont interest have been most heavily taxed by internal taxation. And, beside that, the difference in exchange and the price of gold have so changed from that time to this as to make an enormous difference against them in that respect, so that they do not stand anything like on the same ground that they did in 1864. Now, therefore, if you find, as the experiment which has been tried demonstrates that you will, that by making the importer share some larger part of his enormous profits with the Government, you increase the revenue, while you still are able to supply the market from your home production and thereby increase your foil". by taxation and develo your industry, I think you ought to do it. It is not Vermont alone, by any means, that is interested in a question of this description. Let me assure my friend that there are a great many other places in the U.S. where marble not only exists, but is absolutely worked, capital is invested in it, labor is producing it. The localities of white marble in the U.S. are Vermont, Western Massachusetts, NewYork, west of the city, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, and Alabama. Pursuing down the whole eastern range of the Alleghanies, extending from the Canada line to the Gulf of Mexico, white marble exists; many quarries of it are worked, which supply the cities and the trade from place to place. This is an interest worth developing, as much so as that of coal; and as I said before, in addition to the arguments which have been so successfully urged about coal, differing from coal there enters into the pro: duction of marble when it comes to be utilized a vast deal of labor. It not only has to be quarried as coal has, but it has to be worked as coal does not have to be. Labor is expended upon it; skill is expended upon it; luxury results from it. It is therefore one of that class of productions which ought to bear out of proportion, speaking in one sense of that word, the burdens of taxation which the country must impose on its citizens. Now take the variegated marble, where is that to be found in the U.S and where is it worked? It is worked even in Maine, at Thomaston. I do not know how the quarries are going on now, but there is a good quarry, according to the Encyclopedia, of marble there.