Mr. SUMNER. I am coming to that now. When the Senator interrupted me I said that I would now ask attention to the form of the proposition. When I made my motion a little while ago I moved to restore a certain clause which had been struck out. The Senfrom Maryland [Mr. JOHNson] objected to that on the ground of the discrimination it would introduce between what we will call Nova Scotia coal and British coal. To meet that argument, and at the suggestion of those who were interested in the question, I proposed to modify my amendment. I should prefer the amendment in the modified form, as I should prefer to have all coals as cheap as possible; but the Senfrom Maine, who is chairman of the ComFinance, having the subject specially in charge, objects to that proposition. He says that it cannot have his support; he does not think so favorably of it as of the proposition that I 1st Presented. I shall, therefore, without hesitation, go back to the proposition I 1st Presented, for I wish to unite upon it as many votes as possible. I do not wish by broadening it to throw off any support which it might naturally have. I therefore shall renew that proposition and shall leave open the question after the Senate has acted upon that proposition, what shall be done with coals coming from east of the line of 30 degrees of longitude. And now one word as to the discrimination between those 2 coals. I understand that we derive that from what I may call the traditional policy of the country for ten or 15 years certainly, beginning with the reciprocity treaty. By the reciprocity treaty the other coal came in free, and it was then arranged that the English coal should be If taxed $150. that tax should be left in the bill we should only continue the traditional policy of the government. What I desire now is to have a vote of the Senate with regard to what we will call the Nova Scotia coal; the coal trade with the British Provinces which is this side of the line of 30 degrees of longitude, east of Washington, and therefore I will move to restore the clause that was stricken out on page 85, being lines 21, 22, 23, and 24, the effect of which will be that all coal from any place not more than 30 degrees of longitude east of Washington will come in at 50 cents a ton duty.