Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1829-01-07

which has rendered exprdIent The statlontag aG-
ditiona troops on The Niagara frontier. The
other evidence embraced by the resolution, and
in posse ssion of the Government, does not, in
nv Judgment, al present render any further EN-.
ployment Of regular force for the enforcement
Of the revenue laws, ne, essary.
JOHN QUINCY ADAMS
DEPARTMENT OF WAX,
December 26, 1928.
S1R:-In compliance with the resolution Of
the House Of Representatives, Of rhr 18Th inst.
requesting The President Of the Unitcd STATES
"to communicate, if it be not in his Judgment
INCOMPATIBLE with public interest, the in
formation in relation to intended frauds upon
he revenue, which has rendered necessary The
s,a,ioning additional troops on the Niagara
fron,irr; and also any other evidence in posses
sion Of The Government, which may make the
employment of regular armed force necessa>
nv for the enforcement Of the revenue laws"
have the honor to submit the following report
The evidence in possession Of the Dtpart-
ment, Of contemplated frauds on the 'evenue, a.
long ,he Niagara frontier, is, as the nature Of
The subject necessarily supposes, circumstar-
,ial and pfesumpiivr: FOR il is not TO be ex~
y, c,ed lha, persons intending to commit clam
destine violations Of The laws will make their
IN entions public, much less point out the Time,
place and manner in u hch they propose TO et-
f-ctuatr them. The belief that such fraudulent
designs were, and sill ave, entertained, is
founded on the following prominent facts, which
with others OF minor importance, all leading to
the same conc sion, have been communicated
10 the d. partm-nt by gentlemen OF the hrstre-
specta5ilty, who are personally known TO them,
and who have recently visited the Seat OF Go"
ycrnment, aud some Of whom are still here, but
whose names il is not dee med necessary or eX>
pedient to mention at this time.
The prominent iac,s alluded TO are, that with
in few months past not less than five or six
very extensive mercantile establishments have
been formed and located at different points a.
long the British shore Of the Niagara; and that
there is already collected in the stores and
warehouses belonging to these establishments,
whose profcssed Office, is to vend, by wholesale,
All amount of European goods, (principaily
BRITISH excet ding, by many times, in quanlity,
and varying, in quality, from what would be me-
c. ssary or proper to satisfy any lmagInabl. de-
msnd for The population Of Canada, or for the
Indian trade.
The inference, therefore, tina: most Of these
goods are intended Tor the United States mar
ket, is unavoidable; and the further inference
that they are intended to be smuggIed in, is -
qually irresistible in the minds of ,nose who
are acquainted with the geography Of the cour.
ny, and the course of lis commercial operas
tions for, supposing like duties 10 be- paid by
both. y would &c utterly impossible for the En-
gl sh merchant, who transports his goods { ON
Europe 10 Niagara, by The GaZirdou, and tx
pensive route Of the gulf and river St.Law'ence,
to enter into successful competition on he
Niagara, with the A mrTican mer chant, who in
PRODUCES his e. DDS through the GONNA aiively
s,fe and cheap route Of New-York and the
Erie canal
subjoin an advertisement ay one Of hose
Canadian houses taken from newspaper print
ec a, L"ckpor', in The State of New.Ycrk, as
indicating, in manner that Can hardly be mis-
understood, the purposes for which they have
been established
JOHN YOUNG
Has recently received his annual supply Of
Fail Goods from England, 10 the amount of
Sloo ooo, consisting OF Cloths, Cam b!e,s, PIaids
Blankets, Sc. which he will sell at from thirty
to fifty per cent. cheaper hsn can BIZ Afforded
IN the ad accent parts Of the State Of New York.
His primary object is the wholesale business,
but Tor the accommodation Of the public, he
will sell by retail al small advance above his
wholesale prices.
Niagara, U C. Oct 80, 1928.
In addition TO the simple but concI usve facts
already mentioned, general belief has obtain.
ed along the line Of our Canadian fron,,er. hat
secret instructions have been given by the fri,
fish Government to its revenue officers, If NOT
10 encourage. al least no, to oppose, obstacles
to this Illicit trade, So far as regards itnpor,a-
ton into the United States. |, is due, howev-
cI, to the Blush Government, to state, thai the
Department possesses no specific info, NATION
hat gors 10 establish such a fact, and il is NOT
improbable that The impression may have been
created by the various speculations on the sub.
Jeet OF our tariff, which have la'ely appeared in
The British prints. 1t is, probably, wi, hin the
recollection OF every member Of Congress, that
dise usslon was T, ported as having taken place
In the British House Of Commons, on the sub
!ect OF our last ariff law, soon after its passage
In which some Of he mos, promin ent members,
ana particularly Mr.. Huskisson, were repre-,
,entea as having spoken enc qpra gipgly Of this
canada trade, as the most ready and practical
Die means Of Introducing their manufactures,
and e'adins the provisions Of the law. The
English journals, too, since that period, have
been hOIdinp ont he c,r;l;,,