The Secretary read it, as follows: To the congress of the U.S.: The undersigned citizens of East Saginaw, Michigan. humbly but earnestly remonstrato against the renewal of the socalled reciprocity treaty with the British Provinces, and against the formation of any new treaty which shall grant special favors to the people of those Provinces not granted to other friendly nations and not consistent with our system of raising a revenue by duties on imports and at the same time protecting our own industry. I Land and labor being lower in the Provinces than in the U.S., they produce all products of the farm cheaper than We can and so undersell our farmers. Stumpage being high in the U.S and merely nominal in the Provinces, they can undersell our lumbermen on all the products of the forest. Any treaty, therefore. which allows the free exchange f the products of the farm and the forest sacrifices the interests of our farmers and lumbermen to those of the Provinces. It also sacrificestheir rights. for since the price of almost everything they buy is enhanced by our general system of duties to allow free trade in the products of their labor is injustice. They have the same right to protection as the manufacturer of cotton. woolen. iron. leather and another of the 1,000 articles which are protected. We bear with what patience we can the high taxes which the necessities of the nation have compelled. We shall feel these taxes to be oppressive if the Government neglects to moderate them by taxing the importation of those artltle which come in competition with our own productions. The high price of gold for a few years past has operated as a protection against competition of the Provinces; but as gold falls this protection will cease and any renewal of the reciprocity treaty would be disastrous. The Provinces contend that their raw material should be admitted free of duty in exehamtnfor the great concessions they make to ourfishermen; but, in fact. they get their fish admitted into our market free of duty and therefore our fishermen are opposed to the treaty.