Mr. JOHNSON. The iron works in Pennsylvania, which are very extensive, are, I believe, managed entirely, as far as fuel is concerned, with anthracite. They have succeeded in constructing their chimneys and their furnaces in such a way as to make the anthracite answer every purpose of getting a blast which will enable them to ignite it and to burn it just as fast as the Cumberland coal could have been ignited and would have burned out under the original form of their works as far as related to their furnaces. It is used, too, very extensively in the manufacture of gas. My friend near me [Mr. MoRRILL] suggests that they never see the Nova Scotia coal in his neighborhood. I have no doubt that is true; but they never see ours; and they never see ours because they prefer at present prices the anthracite; but if we could carry the Maryland bitumine us coal into Maine, where my friend resides, and there be able to sell it at a price anything like the price for which the anthra cite. be sold, I think they would soon abandon the anthracite perhaps and substitute the bitumine us coal. But that is a matter of speculation. All that I mean to say and I place the propriety of the amendment upon that ground is that the maxim to which the honorable chair man of the ComFinance referred, of living and let live, is perfectly right. No man wants to live by killing another; no man wants to get rich by impoverishing another; no man desires to get rich by keeping angther from getting rich within the same time. That is not living and letting live. It is reversing the maxim. Now, what is proposed to be done by the bill as it stands, as I think, lets eastern manufacturers live, but does not let the coal owner live. I think that if we substitute the amendment which I have proposed, instead of having 600,000, tons, the production will be doubled or quadrupled, for the supply is inexhaustible. Everybody would be benefited by it. It is not the case now, certainly, in relation to the owners of the mines, who have made little or nothing, although they have gone on from time to time under the hope that they would eventually find it to be a profit able business and benefit everybody.