Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1820-12-09
Report on the Anti Tariff Petitions.
In the House of Representatives Thursday
November 80

III TIE f1ouSe OF representative -IlIurSdiy
November so.
| MIR. Balduin. from the committee OH
manufactures, delivered The following rc
! por,
The committee of manufactures tn
whom have been referred The petitions oi
| sundry lnhabi'Rni~ OF Belfast, IN Mainr,
andstbe merchants and others of Rich.
| mond. IN Virginia. beg leave 10 report
That The general object OF these peli.
lions - 10 monstrate against The pas
sage of the bills which were reported to
| this House at their last session, 10 regulate
the duties on imports aui for other pur.
poses, to regulate the payment of duiirs
OIL imported merchandise and imposing
duty on sales al auction. AS neither
Of lhesr bills are now depending before
either House of The Legislature, bat have
been eithereXpressiy or virtually rejected,
II would, ~ Al ordinary case, be deemed a
sufficient answer 10 HE petitions 10 say ikat
their object had been already accomplish
ed. II might, too, lie deemed premature
in a committee of this House, to whom,
these subjects have been referred al The
present session, and who may feel il their
duty In report on some OF these bills, SINH
lar in their Tendency 10 those Of The last, to
make any report on The matters embra.
tee had agreed OH recommending SOM.
thing for adoption Bui there seea,s 10
the committee TO be, in these petitions,
something Of character perfectly novel,
Introduced i'm a manner, it il believed,
so totally unprecedented, in The Iegisla-
tive history of the country, as well a, in
consistent with the respect due 10 lie
Representatives OF the uaiioD, that II is
felt 10 be q duty to notice them now.
In abiding 10 The foregoing bills, the
petitioners from Belfast assert, That a
| repeal of the law OF debeDiure, Tie aboIi
ton OF drawbacks, forced part of Tie
system OF those bills, AMI depict, IN glow
ing colors, The ruinous effects on he com
| Werce of The country, IIlcb would rpsult
though they made no direct impula ion
of any inteGtinn.
The Richmond Memorial is more ex.
pllcii, as the iioue " i'll observe from the
| following extract: &" In tie next place,
let us enquire into the justice aud poll.
| cy at The prDlIibiiOry system recommend.
ed by the advocates tOTintcTnal mauulac
lures, WHO may be viewed indeed, less
as the advocates of manufactures, than a.
the enemies to foreign Commerce and
navigation for, tn What other purpose
can they have introduced the bills 4. re-.
| pNhi bidWDdNhS WI thPDI diipUSt anu 10
abolish the credits given oil duties; but
TO ass3ll or commerce in The most vital
manner and eventually to destroy il e.
ln considering these allegations of the
petition, The committee feel great regret
in Being compelled TO say, thal HEY are
utterly unsupported by fact, and contra
dic'rd 10y lie bills referred TO, so far as
they relate 10 the subject of draw backs.
Tho present system OF drawbacks and
debenture was, III all lis paris, retained
in both The bills called the Tariff aud
Casli Payment, aud ia TIE latter, new
provisions inserted, which were intended
and calculated TO afford uew and great
facilities 10 The re- export trade OF the coun-
Try. The language Of both bills y s clear,
"Xplicli, and, 10 minds disposed 10 exam
ine al all, capable Oi 40 nIiscomsiruciiOn.
O1e bilI was reported III January, The 9th.
or ~ MdrcIi last. Both were printed bt
The order of the House ; they excited ge-
neral interest throughout The nation =
we're Iabofiously and fully discussed and