Mr. KELLEY. The Gentfrom NewHampshire, [Mr. bIABS'X‘ON] NewEnglander though be be, is not more anxious than I am that cw England shall have cheap coal. I believe that the way for her, to obtain it is to open generous rivalry with the coal fields along the coast. I am anxious that she shall have the coal of Nova Scotia as cheaply as she can have any American product. And if gentlemen will look at Executive Document No. 128, the answer of the SecyTreasury to a resolution which I had the honor to introduce here on the 28th of March, they will see there broached the idea of adding stars to our flag and of making Nova Scotia, NewBrunswick, and Canada ast States of this Union. That, air, is a feasible project: and it can be accomlished without war. Nothing but the provis ons of the reciprocity trenty could have kept those Provinces out of the Union until the)res out time; and if we decline to give them egis lative protection equivalent to the advantages the enjoyed under the reciprocity treaty, they wil, b the force of political gravitation; take their places before many years as States of the American Republic. The entle mau says that we have put a duty on wood. Yes, sir; and we have added acor respoudi duty on woolen goods. The gentleman talks of this tariff as a protective tariff. It is not a protective tariff. t is a mere revenue tariTT. I hope to see some day:1. protective tariff in this country. But this tariff does not compensate the manufacturers for the internal taxes imposed upon them. And the commercial reports with reference to coal show that it is pouring into our country this year in great excess of the importation last year. I hold in my hand a copy of the NewYork Commercial Times and Financial Chronicle for June 23. It containsa table of foreign importations of leading articles of commerce at that port for the week endin June 15, as compared with the importations during a corresponding' period last year. The amount of coal imported during one week last year was 7 3, 666 tons, while this year it is 253,000 tons. g I concede that the ComWays&Means, pressed as they have been, have done the best they could to adjust the tariff to compensate for internal tastes. During the war we have not been living under a tariff. We have been living on the difference between our currency and gold. More than one year ago I said in this House that when gold should fall below 150 our factories and workshops would be obliged to close. When gold dropped to 180, they did close all over the country. This system of free trade, or rather this question of giving protection nicely balanced with the measure of internal taxes which a product bears, is making it the interest of the manufacturer to have an inflated and cheap currenc, in order that the differenccbetwecn it and go d may protect him against the influence of our unwise legislation. glere the hammer fell.] Mr. BOUTWELL rose.