Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1824-03-23

rif. Sh1utS, VI VtdSShcnNSpVs, auNrpssen |
the COMMITTEES in favor oil continuing the duty. |
and argued, that, IL il should be laid. Amer, |
can tallow would he employed in max ,ns
soap; aud oil. which is better and achraI,.
or light, would, tn AN additional extern, be
substituted for candles. He conmrnird on
certain m-mOrlais OF The manufacturers OF sunp
au,. candles, aud replied to the arguments
therein urged, Ia prove that the duty would
he advantageous 10 In. country. He mad.
statement 10 shcw, that only four and a half
per cent. oI the pupuiatiun of the Unlun use
oil for light, while ninety five aud half per
cent. use candies. The interests of the taliuw
chandlers are nj variance with those of tn.
asricuiuras,s. The latter would receive a
benefit from the dnty--whle the tallow chan
dlers HAY" sufficient protection i'm n drawback
oi75 per cent. The interests of agriculture
and the whale Fishery, he commended, were
closely united all the supplies of the crews
employed IN that fishery being raised by the
iar,ner-w lille the construction of the vessels.
casks, boats, Sc put in motion great amount
at mechanical industry (; it occupied part of
the coasting trade il nurs-d a valuable race
| OF seam"n, hardy, intelligent, skilful, aud indie
pendent. in the course oil his remarks on
this par, of the subject, Mr.. B. read quota
lion from Edmund Burke, in eulos;um of the
whal-man-a and he went into "A succinct his
tory of this branch of enterprise, and stated
| the buuntirs conferred upon il in foreign cuun-
tries, SC. SC.
Mr.. Cambreleng, of New York, rose in re.
ply, and commended that the proposed duty if
granted would not be any relief Ia those en-
gagged in the fisheries. He stated the opera
ton ut the duty to he nugatory, because IA
drawback is allowed by the bill on exported
soap and candles, and the whole amount of
imported tallow, (about million of pounds, J is
| made ipt md ,apdl., c,r
| tion-so that the Government would collect
the duty with one hand and pay it back in
drawback with the other.
Mr. Webster, OF Mass. went fully into an
exposition of the facts OF the Case showed
why the Russian taow is cheaper, its use in
thu manufacture Of soap-the amount export
ed, the benefit OF its use Ia the manufactures.
and the gain to the country. He then went
OH To shew that the benefits of the duty TO
the whalenen and oil dealers would be very
doubtful, and would by no means compensate
Tor the loss ofexports which must he its effect
He showed that the proposed drawback would
he of 40 use TO the manufactures, being paid
| tn the importing merchant-and if il were il
could not be estimated, because the import is
| In tallow, and the export chiefly in soap. He
! remarked, with severity, on the doctrine, that
| balance resulting from comparison of the
| amount of imports aud exports to any par,c-
ular country, shows whether we gain or lose
ny trade with that country-which he demon
mated .largon, aud nonsense. We export no.
thing to the South Seas, and bring back great
amounts from there: the balance of the
| trade is against us. Is it therefore d losing
| trade
Mr. Ltvermore of N. II. spoke in favor of
retaining the duty: he's did not think that the
manufacture should he protected at the ex.
pense of the farmer and the fisherman. If
you keep the meas tallow out of'the markp;
you aid the farmer foI bis tallow goes to
supply iis place: and al the next step, you
benefit the fisherman, because his oil goes to
supply the place of the farmers talIOw. This
may BIZ an injury To the talIuw chambers; but
then, the whole bill is built on that principle.
and if one is snitten by il, he must strike his
next neghbor.
MIR. Reed of Mass. replied To MIR. Webster,
and stated the claims of the whalemen to the
protection of this country. He referred tn
| their extreme distress during the late war; the
hatterlng offers then made to them by both
Britain and France, which offers they steadily
rejected. He objected to the drawback on
candles, because Of their confessedly bad
J quality, they being had as 10 render it dis
graceful 10 offer them al home. MIR. r. went
into calculation to shew tina, large uuanti-
ties of our own tallow, well as the foreign.
went into the soap exported. He Showed
how much greater the amour: of tie interests
to be protected IN the of the whaleman
was than in that OF the tallow chandlers-one
employed $4,000 tons of shipping, the other
| but or 5000, sc.
Mr.. Webster replied TO the argument Of Mr..
Reed, and commended, that, if the duty is to
do any good, 1t must be by prohibition, and,
in that case, the Russian tallow only goes to
England, and aids the English tallow chan
dIers against our own.
MIR. Liverm"re maintained that the English
manufactures would not gain so much as was
contended, because he must still import his
pot and pearl ash Soap, with the ADDITIONAL
duty, may be made as cheap in the United
States as in England, though with less profit
10 the manufacturers, &c.
MIR. Mercer Virginia, opposed the duty
and went into an extensive calculation TO shew
| that, as much more tallow was exported in a
manufactured form than was imported, the
prohibition would be impOlitic He dreaded
| the temptation TO fraud and deprecated the
| creation of necessity for the English system
OF guards against evasions of the revenue, &c
Mr.. Tod replied 10 The various arguments
urged against the duty-urged that the one
| Glass OF memorialists was entitled to as much
credit AZ the other, though it did not seem 10
br granted to them. That large quantities of
the inferior tallOw imported, were used in the
manufacture of candles. He rebutted the inn
practlcability ola drawback, by the fact, that
drawback ofthe duty On imported molasses
is allowed on the export Of rum. He replied
to the argument from the probability Of fraud,
by showing, that before drawback could be
claimed, the amount oftalow imported by the
same individual must he proved. lie insisted
on the dispr"Portion Of the imported and ex-
ported taow. He retOrted some reflections
OF Mr. w ebster, on the doctrine of the balance