Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1827-08-11

fully but earnestly solicit your honorable DO
dies, to save, to protect and promote, what has
uniformly been treated by government as one
of the principal elements of the independence,
prosperity, and greatness of this republic.
Without further argument, but trusting to
the wisdom and patriotism OF congress TO de-
wise and enact such laws as the exlgency re-
quires, your petitioners submit themselves 10
your judgement, in full confidence that the re-
representatives. of the people will promptly apply
that legislation, which is indispensable to sus.
tain. preseve, and advance the agriculture and
manufactures on which more than half the citi-
Gems of these United States depend for their
livelihood and the whole country for its pros
perity.,
Not presuming to suggest the details OF such
an act of congress as would put stop to the
ruinous fluctuations which for the last nine
years having distressed the farmers and manu-
facturers Of the United States, striving to
make head against the foreign legislation
which deprives them of their own markets,
your petitioners nevertheless, with tho utmost
Difference, submit to the superior wisdom, and
uncontrolled disposition of congress, the fol-
lowing rates of duties, as calculated to accom-
plish that purpose, viz.
l. On raw WOOL costing over eight cents in
foreign country, a duty of twenty cents per
pound to be increased annually two and hall
cents per pound till it reaches fifty cents per
pound.
ii. All goods composed Of wool, or of which
wool is component part Except blankets,
stuffs, bombazines, hosiery, nets, gloves, caps,
and bindings) costing not more than hfy cents
per square yard, to be taken and deemed to
have cost fifty cents per square yard, and forty
ty per cent advolem, TO be charged thereon un-
til the thirteenth of June, eighteen hundred and
twenty nine, forty five percent advalorem, un.
til the thirtieth of June, eighteen hundred and
thirty, and fifty per cent advalorem thereafter.
3D. All goods composed of wool, or OF which
wool, is component part, Except as atore'
said,) costing in foreign country over nifty
cents per square yard, and not exceeding two
dollars fifty cents per square yard, to be taken
and deemed to have cost two dollars and htty
cents per square yard, & the duty to be charg-
ed as in the preceding section.
4th All goods composed of wool, or OF which
wool, is the component part, Except as atore-
said,) costing in foreign country more than
two dollars and fifty cents per square yard, and
not exceeding four dollars per square ya,d, to
be deemed and taken to have cost four dollars
per square yard, and the duty to DC charged as
in the second section.
5th. All goods composed Of wool or Of which
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saidO costing more than four and not exceed
ding six dollars per square yard, to be deemed
and taken to have cost six dollars per square
yard and the duty to be charged as in tho Sc
cond section.
9th. All goods composed of wool, or of which
wool isa component part, Except as aforesaid)
which shall cost in. foreign country more
tIrdIr 81 uoffuro 3~-~, to hs charged
as in the second section.
kets, is respectfully submitted to congress, so
as to secure their manufacture in the United
States.
sth 1t is respectfully submitted to congress
that adequate measures should be taken to pre-.
vent the frauds on the revenue, by which A.
mcrican manufactures are believed to be seri-
ously injured.
Your petitioners beg leave further to state
that although not in such crying need of your
immediate assistance, there are other materials
of general welfare, which would amply repay
in public benefits, such adequate protection as
it may be deemed proper to bcstow on them,
by appropriate andjudicious legislation.
Inexhaustible quantities of iron abound,
! where coal is also to be found in inexhaustible
quantities.
You memo,ialists respectfully submit that
duty OF one cent per pound on hammered bar
IRON, and corresponding advance on the pre-
sent duty on steel, are necessary for the COM
plete and permanent establishment Of the man.
ufactures of iron and steel.
Flax and hemp, with their products, may be
obtained in such quantities as to supercede the
use of foreign fax and hemp, and the manufac-
lures from them, if protected from the large inn
poriations Of those articles from foreign coun-
tries
The futher protection of large capital in
distilled spirits, is also respectfully recommend
ed 10 the consideration of congress, as imoor.
iant 10 the grain growing stales.
Further protection to cotton goods and print.
ed cotons, is invited by the success Of the coarse
coltons, which, like every other article adequate
y protected by law, have become cheaper and
better than similar manufactures formerly
brought from abroad
Harrisburg, PoA sd Aug 1927.
NorE-The hon. Samuel Bell, Ct New
Hampshire and Ahur Robbins, of Rhode ISL
and, members ofthesenate the United States
and members Of tbs convention. did NOT af,x