Mr. wOODBRIDGE. I move, proformfi, to make it 80. Mr. Chairman, this is the 1st time I ever heard that Vermont marble was not durable or not fit for monuments., I am quite sure the Gentfrom Pennsyl vania [Mr. KELLEY] has been misinformed by those who have presented their claims in favor of Italian marb e. There is no marble in the world which endures time and the weather mor perfectly than the marble of Vermont. Now, sir, at Carrara they employ labor at from 8 to 20 cents a day. The cost of their marble percubic foot, delivered on board the vessel from the lighter, is 60 ‘ 5 cents. The freight is 3 dollars, but for the purpose of being liberal I will admit it may be $3 50. 'Labor in the quarries of Vermont is from 2 dollars and a half to 3 dollars a day, and there are employed there today perhaps 5,000 men, and I assure the Gentfrom Pennsylvania [Mr. KELLEY] that to be consistent with himself he is the last man to ask us to pass a law which operate, directly against the'great laboring interest, an interest which he has harped upon from the time this session began until the present moment. The freight on a ton of marble from the quarries in my district to NewYork is greater than from Italy to NewYork. And, sir, owing to this immensely increased importation Italian marble is sold at a profit, 81158.large profit too, at $3 25 percubic foot, when it costs nearly 50 cents more than that to lay a foot of marble from Vermont in the markets of NewYork and Boston, not quite so much in Boston, for the freight is less. I tell gentlemen who wish to protect the laboring interests of the country that the marble business, which is one of the leading interests of my district, is now languishing, and marble numbered 2 and 3 cannot be sold in NewYork because of the vastly increased importation of Italian marble at rices so low, On account of pauper labor and cheap freights. Sir, I go for protecting the labor of this country, like my friendfrom Philadelphia, and in doing that, I go for protecting the marble interest, which IS not a manufacturer’s interest but a laborer's interest. It is simply a question involving the protection of the poor and laboring man. If this amendment prevails, one of the most important interests in the northern country will certainly languish and die. I am sorry that the Gentfrom Pennsylvania wants the graves of onr soldiers marked l with foreign marble. No, sir, let us put a reasonable protection upon marble, and then it will be sold at a fair price and of a kind that will endure as long as time lasts, so that every patriotic soldier may have a little tombstone at his head where for generations to come those who descend from him may go and shed a tear over his grave, and let them be proud to see that above his head is reared a monumental stone from his own land. Sir, I hope the report of the committee on this subject will be ado ted.