Mr. WOODBRIDGE. I move to strike out “ 70 ” and insert “75.” Mr. Chairman, there is perhaps no section of the country more interested in this question than my district., The marble the gentleman Mr. KELLEY] speaks of is, as to the marble of erment,:1 satyr to Hyperion. This is a question of facts and figures. It is said the people of Vermont who are interested in the marble uarries have become rich. It is not true, sir. Ilp to the present day there has not been as much derived from the marble quarries of Vermont as has been invested in developing them. The marble region of Vermont is almost entirely in my district. Marble quarries are being opened at great expense, and unless there is adequate protection afforded the work will have to cease. Let us.see what the effect will be. This is a question of revenue with fair reference to protection. Before 1864the duty on Italian marble was 40 cents a cubic foot. The duty derived under that tariff was, in the year ending June 30, 1864, $43, 390 40; and when the duty was increased from 40 to 50 cents a cubic foot we had the dealers in Italian marble here saying if we increased the duty, it would stop entirely the importation of Italian marbles. What was the result? During the year ending June 30, 1865, the revenue on Italian marble rose from $43, 390 40 to $81, 764 20. Look still further to see what the effect of the present tariff has been, whether or not it has prevented the importation of Italian mar ble, as impormrs of Italian marble then predicted. The number of feet in 11 months after the tariff cf1864 over and above what was imported the previousyear was 45,580, and the increase of duty was $32, 937, for 11 months after the tariff was raised from 40 to 50 cents, and when Italian marble im orters said they. would be ruined against 25 months when the tariff was 40 cents a cubic foot. From June 30, 1863, to June 30, 1804, the duty was $43,340 15; and from July 1, 1865, to June 9, 1866, 11 months after the duty was increased, it was raised from $43, 340 15 to $114,079. In other words, in spite of what these gentlemen said before the committee and the House, there was an increase of revenue in 11 months of $71,000. What is the'costof Italian marble? I have it from the gentlemen who came here interested in the artic e in 1864. The price, delivered by lighters from the quar ries at Carrara, is 65 cents a cubic foot, and the whole cost of freight and all reduced to gold is only $2 11 percubic foot. hHere the hammer fell.]