Mr. EDMUNDS. I hope that this amendment of my friendfrom Wisconsin will be adopted. Vermont is a State that produces very little wheat and consumes a great deal of flour; but I, for one, as a Vermonter, am perfectly willing to protect the products of Wisconsin or lowa or the West, any part of the country that is able to produce a thing which we want ourselves.. I do fo not think we owe any or consideration whatever of any ind, except our own interests, to the Cana dians. The policy which they pursue is hostile to us in all respects, political, economic, and every other. I beg to call the attention of the Senate to a paragraph which I find in this evening's paper, which could not have been gotten up for this occasion, touching Canadian policy: “The report of the Canadian minister of customs rpercivoimlegmeendsthat American vesselsbe refused the of fo through the Welland canal for a brfinegw months. by doing this, ' he says, “we will the Americans to reason.” Well, if it will bring the Americans to reason, I hope they will stop our passage through that canal, so that we shall have public works of our own by which we can transport our own products from one part of the country to the other. I hope this amendment, by which Cana dian wheat will be taxed higher than it is now, will be agreed to, although it may for the Present moment bear hardly upon the constituents whom I rePresent. I believe that when we are able to produce wheat enough for ourselves, and when we have the means of home transportation, as we may have, we shall be unwise in every respect if we admit the products of a community who are hostile to us into the country without their paying a fair share of the bur dens which fall upon our own producers. I am willing, therefore, to pay a little more for Wisconsin and western wheat than I should be obliged to pay for Canadian wheat, in the hope that by mutual protection to all parts of i. country we shall develop our own productions and be independent of those foreigners who entertain toward us the spirit which this para graph showS.R.HOWE. I am urged by several gentlemen to modify the motion so as to put the duty at 40 cents, the House rate, instead of 30, and I will do so. I suppose it is at my option.