Mr. WILLEY. It exists very largely in Ohio, very largely in Pennsylvania, and it exists all over WestVirginia. Our hills are full of cannel coak with which no other coal can come into competition in the production of gas. Our hills are full of bitumine us coal. The gas of this city is made from coal from within 19 miles of where I live, a large portion of it. Our hills, too, upon recent discoveries are full in some places of asphal tum, albertite, or chap a po te. We have the means of enlightening the world if you will only give us protection enough to enable us to do it. We have 15,000 miles of coal fields, some of our hills developing in different." as high as 70 feet of workable coal. interspersed through all these mines are veins of cannel coal. And we have, besides that, the purest asphaltum in the world a ver tical vein which is a curiosity to all geologists, 5 feet thick, ascending to the top of the mountains, and descending perhaps 2,000feet, already explored 200 feet deep, so rich, so near to resin itself that out of it you can produce 120 gal lons of pure oil to a ton. And yet, sir, in WestVirginia we have a terra incognita of these mineral resources, placed as it were almost in the center of the U.S., on this side of the Rocky mountains, as yet unexplored, unde. '", with the Ohio river to carry it south ward, wanting means to get to these mines. These rich resources in our State are attracting the attention of capitalists. Already men have been purchasing up some of these rich mines; already are men investing their capital in constructing railroads from the northwestern branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad into the interior to these mines; they are constructing retorts there for the purpose of making oil out of this asphaltum, and reaching our rich mines. What we want is reasonable protection; and if we are to have protection at all, if the principle of this bill is worth anything at af and is to be recognized, give us such protection as will be effective. This cannel coal, this gas making coal, is a matter of very great interest to all the country. Besides a great object of the protection of the encouragement of domestic industry is the development of the resources of our country, and thus the increase of the aggregate wealth of the country. All I want is that the principle of this bill may be made practically efficient that if we are to have protection at all we shall have such reasonable protection as will enable us fairly to compete with the foreign producer. A protection that does not amount to that is no protection at all; it is a mere delusion, and is tantalizing the capital of the country and the domestic industry and labor of the country.