American watchman and Delaware advertiser. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1822-1828, 1824-02-20

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But TO recur to facts. 1t was not true that the
revenues on imported spirits, had been diminished
Inv the taxes imposed on it, from the commence
|ment of the government to the present time. Mr..
Secretary Dallas had shewn that the annual revenue
|on this article, from 1900 to 1916, was something
las than two millions OF dollars. But in that state
ment he included the great imporatons OF 1908, a.
|5 e. and 2 which do not fairly enter into the ave
lrage But, taking the importations from 1908 TO
o. the average amount will be found 10 be six
millions, and the duties on that amount two millions
leaving out the years 1908, a, S, and 6, the ave-
race on the balance is about four millions, and the
Revenue one million So that the average revenue
81 is about two millions. In that year the new
,arif was laid, and the average duties on imported
lspirits, from 1876 to the present year. is two mil
|lions-
Here Mr.. Foot inquired whether the gentleman
from Kentucky had deducted the years OF the en-
{bargo and non-intercourse?
Mr. I. replied hat he had not. He did not
Think it was fair mode OF obtaining an average to
take all the lowest, and leave out the highest years.
mr. TO take all the highest and leave out the lowest
(Ile was glad to perceive, from the inquiry OF the
fqenteman from Connecticut, that they were get
hing on terra frma again--he did not doubt all would
proceed very we'll now Mr. I. here made some
remarks to shew that the dimnuton of the import
5rsngement OF business, and was not occasioned by
she tariff of 1916, though that tariff might, in some
sdeeree have contributed to it.
On one thing he was determined, that, so Tar as
ae was concerned, he would make the tariff fair and
3eoual. The old tariff was so unequal, that he pre-
8snn,ed no member was to be found who would ven
#tnre TO take his place on this floor and attempt
Sfeence oft. He knew, indeed, that absolute equa
Slty was unattainabe-they could not weigh out
9equaly by dram and scruples, but must come as
bear it as possible.
n Mr.. Tracy again rose and said, that, the more
N. reflected on the subject, the more he was satis6
that, instead of striking out from the bill the
CLAUSE now under consideration, the duty proposed
by it was not as high it ought TO be, consistently
Rwi;h the other provisions of the bill. He was salts
Ned, he said that it could be shewn conclusively
Athat the same considerations which operated as in
Mlucements in regard to other articles Of the bill
would operate equally in favor of the motion which
De now proposed, which was, to strike ont the pro
9osed "ffeen per ccntam,' and, IN tteu hereot
snsprt d" fifty per centhm."
Mr.. ,McDIDe, of South Carolina, said, that he felt
himself bound, on every question Of amendment
hot to oppose it on the general principle of hostility
40 the bill but to oppose support it on the merits
III the amendment proposed. What, then, he asked
Il the princinle on which the manufacturers of the
Atounry claimed protection? What is the principle
pn which, If at all, they need It Not that they
cannot stand competition on any terms, when fair
NV established with the foreign manufacturers for,
"a gentlemen admitted that any article OF manuiac-
#fure cannot stand in competition with the foreign
&xticle, that admission denied at once the policy of
@le prohibition of the forsign article. The only
Rround on which an increase of the tariff could be
Supported, was that of sustaining manufactures a.
M nst superior advantages, from the improved ma
Millinery and more powerful capital of foreign manu-
kIactories, against competition &c. Now, Mr.. Med
Masked, is not the mandatory of whiskey III this
&fountry carried to perfection? Is any extraordinary
Enachinery or very extensive capital, necessary to
sfarry it on? 1t had already been shewn, that this
$hanufacture is now protected by duty of 200 per
Etentum on its value. Was il pretended that any
article, the manufacture of which is not protected
fby such bounty, could be protected by any boun-
{ty whatever short of total prohibition ?
N The ground which he took in regard to this ar
Eaicle, Mr.. McDuflie said was that it is which,
$Fhether of foreign domestic manufacture, should
fbe subject Of taxation and the ground he now
look, in opposition to the motion oil the gentleman
rom New York, would be, that it would have the
ffec il it succeeded, 10 protect the article, wheth
tr Of foreign or domestic manufacture, from any
taxation whatever. What, he asked, would be the
tHect Of the tax now proposed! " Would IT not ope-
fate to the exclusion of the foreign article altogeh-
|er! He appealed to any man, acquainted with the
course o commerce, for conformation OF the fact,
which he now stated, that the duties already exist
ng have almost excluded this article; that the trade
Sith the w. Indies was almost destroyed by the duty
NJ It now stands Mr.. McDuffe here made some
PLACEMENTS TO shew that, with regard TO the compa-
fatve amount of the importation of the article oil
3lled spirits, the change has under the operation
y the augmentation of duties upon it, been vast
rom the year sos to the year 1908, he said, one
at OF the revenue Of the country had been derived
aom duties on the importation Of articles OF thi:
prescription. For the four succeeding years. more
ahan third of the revenue had been derived from
ahr same source. The statement OF the gentleman
ON Kentucky, that the amount OF revenue iron
Jus source in those years had been very little create