Mr. KELLEy. mr. Chairman, I think that my constituents are as fond of good beef and consume asmuch of it as the constituents of the Gentfrom NewYork, [Mr. Bnooxs] Yet I am in favor of imposing the duty proposed, and that on very broad general principles. We need in this country men and capital to develop our resources. Our legislation has been such as to repel emigration and to induce our own citizens of energy and capital to go to Canada. The reciprocity treaty had that effect. During the last ten years a million and a half of emigrants who should have settled in mfg country have gone to Canada. In addition to that, many of our own citizens, in consequence of our system of taxation, have gone to that country and built up there factories and other establishments. I would make beef as cheap as the Gentfrom NewYork desires to make itbut I would do it by striking of? the absurd tax in the internalrevenue act upon slaughtered animals, thus equalizing the matter so that our legislation this session should have no special cficct upon the price of beef; for if we remove the internalrevenue tax it will about counter balance this. Sir, the object which I would seek in legislating on this subject is to put Canada in the same position in which all other foreign nations are. propose that she shall have no benefactions from us; that we shall leave her to the tender mercies of GreatBritain, who soon will so impoverish her that our own citizens who have gone there will return to us to give us the benefit of their capital and their enterprise, and the emigrants from the other side of the Atlantic will come to the U.S. instead of going to Canada. I am therefore in favor of putting this tax upon living animals, and inducing our own people to raise a larger supply. I desire that our people shall be so prosperous that the Cana dians, feeling the injuriousinfluence of the British Government, shall compare their condition with that of ourselves, living on kindred soil and so near to them, and shall find that to be the colonists of GreatBritain, unless patronized as they have been for the last ten years by the Republic of America, is to occupy a degraded position. Mr. COOK. I withdraw my amendmentto the amendment.