Mr. KELLEY. Mr. Chairman, it was the misfortune of the House, and it will be a misfortune to the country if his argument prevail, that the Gentfrom Ohio LAMr. Gsurmtn] was absent. from the House when the discussion of this subject took place on Wednesday. Like the chairman of the ComWays&Means, he does not distinguish between bitu mine us and anthracite coal. He says Pennsylvania pays more than 644,000 dollars of internalrevenue on her coal. The next State paid $60,000, and Maryland only some 40,000 dollars. Yet Maryland is as rich in bitumine us coal as Pennsylvania, but the reciprocity treaty has prevented the working of her mines. Pennsylvania paid on her anthracite coal which is not touched by this bill. The arguments of the gentleman on the provisiohs of this bill do nothing to protect American industry. They are operative only against the colonists. The provisions of the bill simplygive England a greater advantage Over lier American Provinces than she now enjoys but do not protect our miners. While cometing with her Provinces which are sending itumine us coal into our country free of duty under the socalled reciprocity treaty, she could send in one ton to every 2 sent to NewYork or any State east thereof. She has poured in her coal and willcontinue to pourit in upon us, notwithstand in the fact that she pay s$1 25 perton and the co onics send it free of duty. Even new, English coal goes into NewOrleans, when they ought to get. their supply from Missouri. How does she do it? It iscarried as ballast in her cotton vessels, and being delivered free, or almost free of freight, closes the market which Kentucky, Tennessee, and Missouriought to supply at The question is one in which every laboring man in the country is Sinirt, erested. do gentlemen wish to reduce the colliers 1 of our country to the condition of those of England? The blackest page of the shame of England is the report of the parliamentary committee to inquire into the condition of her colliers and mine laborers. It proclaims the fact. that naked men and women, ay, naked men and women, were indiscriminately har nessed to boxes, which they dragged through passages so narrow that they most crawl on their hands and knees to bring the coal to where it might be deposited in cars that could be drawn by quadrupeds. It showed that men and women were thus employed who had never heard that God was the name of a being and others that knew not that He had a Son whom the Christian world revered as its Redeemer. It proved that many of them were not only hat ess, but were regardless of the commonest prorieties of life, and knew not the moral value of c othing. It showed that among the laborers in the mines of England and Vales there was no distinction between the sexes, and that many of the children born and reared there had no means of knowing or guessing who their paternal parents were. I beg leave, limited as my time is, to ask gentlemen whether they desire to bring the aboring people of the U.S. to a.conditioh like t. at. I ask them to pause, and especially do I ask the Gentfrom Ohio, Mr. Ganrmwd who represents a district in which there are collieries, to pause before he says American labor shall not be protected against the competition of people who are content with the wages and life of the people described in that revort.