Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-02-10

OH all ccttor a. ff's reduction OF the duues ",
~ so,on ana woollea goods, and ON all articles
manufactured from iron IT, .I;, =. was vii.
s " auo any or all other article, wLich gentle
maid an suggest, on which single consumer
MIR. Sergeant followed in v;n,;..,;,, ~ the bill
ana in opposition to the various an'.nnsn,s which
mad been proposed to il. great evil of the
tariff. OF which SO much had been said, was.
u a, ~" many 'hings were heaped together In
visions oil that bill; and now the sp'.s er,or Was 10
be repea.ed' by repeating those dutIes In : similar
mass. Inc amendments TO the bill before tho
House, went 10 take offthe imports, SALT tea, su-
gar, coffee, cotton and woolen goos. ana hard
ware-a sweeping measure. indssT III ,vow.
ed object OF the gentleman from South C.rolna,
(Alr HamiIon) was to incorporate the uhoIe If the
tariff the bill for the repeal of the duties
.he purpose OF getting rid Of those provisions Of
H. winch were the most obnoxious to him and his
constituents. He, Mr.. Sergeant, called mon all
those gentlemen upon that floor who were iriendly
TO The protection OF domestic industry. to prevent
tne passage OF such measure. The honorable
gentleman concluded, by maintaining in . iono ar
gument, In the course of which, he intro,ucsd
variety Of statistical! details, that the REPEAL or the
tonnage duties would be attended with benefit To-
the Southern States, as well as to the other Soc
lions oil the onion' aud the community in general.
Mr.. p p. Barbour said, that he did NOT rise for
the purpose of proonging the discussion. which
had been opened and gone into at length In refer
Gene to the tariff II might be, that the relief of
the navigating interest alone was proposed in the
bill before the House, but he could moi heIn 20
marking, In reference the great stress which had
been laid OH the circumstance that the advantages
contemplated would not be derived by the SHINING
interest, but by the owners of the articles which
were transported. A long argument had been
gone into that the public treasury could snare
more than one hundred thousand dollars of reve.
nue., upon the calculation that after the expiration
OF the two ensuing years, no portion of the public
debt debt then redeemable, would remain unpaid
The gentlemen he observed, had only proved
part of the premises, by which they arrived at
their conclusion. They forgot to enquire what
should DO the article commodity of which
the duty under such circumstances, should bn
removed II the shipping interest Iabored I'M
der all the disadvantages which the gentleman
from Maine, (Mr. Sprague,) had stated on form
er day, there existed other interests which were
as heavily oppressed, and called as loudly and in
deed more loudly for relief. The gentleman had
stated that the shipping interest had decreased
but he did not attribute the decrease to the proner
cause. Ii he had examined and vie wed the cause,
which contributed to that result, he would no,
nave SAID II was owing to the oppressive nature of
was one OF the principal causes, and il eoualv af.
iected the shipping OF foreign nations and that of
the United States 1t was argued, that AZ this in
terest labored under difficulties and az q mr..
on OF me revenue could be spared, it ought to be
relieved from these difficu lties If we are In .
condition; ii the public Treasury is in such ausn
cious circumstances to enable us TO snare sone nj
our revenue, he (Mr. b. would put il to the can.
q 40 ana common sense OF every gentleman in the
rouse, II The duty on any article was 10 he re-
pealed, what could be more WORTHY of reJ;of o.
the article OF salt-a commodity which was indis-
pensably necessary 10 the poorest as well az =,
the richest in the country, and which entered IN
10 every aiucie OF domestic consumption. The
duty on salt was at first cents per bushel and II
was subsequently raised TO 20 cents. until the
year ioU1, when II was absolutely repealed In
1918 IL was again revived as war tax; but il was
70 eontinne no longer than twelve months after the
termination OF the war. That tax which &c ,..,nn
repealed, and after grave deliberation. was sga;n
renewed, owing to the unavoidable exisences oS
war should be now repealed if any tax was n he
repealed Alter some further remarks, he con-
cluded by moving that the bill and amenS,,sn,,
should be laid on the table, aud that ON this n"sa
uon inc ayes and noes should he called
Inc call being sanctioned by the House the
yeas and nays were ordered
U Nm the Speaker proceeding to put the question,
MT. Sprague requested the gentleman from
virginia, (Mr. p. p. Barbour) TO withdraw III,
mouon Tor the PurpO Of allowing him (Mr Gu
an opportunity to make few remarks in repIv'
Mr.: +. +. Barbour observed that he would COM
ply with the request with pleasure If the pentIe-
man from Maine, (Mr. Sprague) felt snv strone
solicitude on the subject '"s
Mr. SPrague rejoined that he did not labor nm.
der strong solicitude relative to it,
ton. ~ VAC q"es'
hir: Maliary repeated the request of Withdraw.
al OF the motion; for he felt some socitude.
MIR: r. T. Barbour said, that il il were NOT ,ba,
me House had so unequivocally expressed its ..
pinioh by arepeated demand for the question. ha
would cheeruly acquesce with the call of tha
gentleman from Vermont, and withdraw his mn.
uoh But as it was, he could not depart from The
course which he had taken ' VAC
- ne question on the bill and amendments beino
Iaid upon the table, was then taken by yeas and
nays. The following were the votes:
SEAS-Messrs. Adams Alex.nJ.r ID A,
ien' Aston, Baldwin, ]. S. Barbour, P p. Bar-
bour' Barlow, BarInger, Basseu, E. Bates.
Pel' BAR Buchans:., Buck Chiffon, Claiborne.
!ohn I; Clark, j. C!ar k, Crockett, CuIpeper, Dan
lei, L. Davenport, w. r. Davis De Graf: Desha
Earl, Floyd, Va. Floyd, Ga, Fry. Gale Gimar'
Guriey Hallock, Hall, Hamilton, Haynes. Hind..
II 1oooie, HOLMAN, Holmes, Isacks, Jennings Johns
Neese' keer, King, Kremer, Lawrence ,Lecomnte
Lea, LETTER, ietcher, Lumkin Lyon, Maeee Ma,
s3ie, martin, maxwell, Maynard M Coy, M'Dufie
"a eff alton, Mexican, Mckee, Mercer, J. Mitch,
Ell, o. " NItchen,f. =. Moore, G.. Moor ,Muh-
,IehDurg, Huckolls, Orr, Owen, Polk, Rivee
Roane, Russell, Sawyer, Smytb, Sprgp stsva,'
son, SterIgere, Taber, Thompson, TTezvant =
cey-92. '"' "oh' iaH-
Nays-Messrs. S. C. Allen, ]. Anderson. g An.
1erson, Armstrong, N. Barber, Barker, Barnard.
,,arney' bartlett, BARLEY, Beecher, Blake, Brown
ooIyan, Suckner' Burgess, Butman, Cambreleng,
Condict, Conner, Coulter, J. Davenport. ] Da';ss'
Dorsey, Duncan, Dray,on, Dwight, Everett Eo,s'
= 9rham' Green, Heay, Hodges, Hunt, Ingerso,i
Johnson, Little, Locke, Long, MsIlary, MarIoi,'
Martindae, Marvin, McInlire, Mclean. Nc
yin, Miner, Newton, O'Brien, Pearce, PbeIn,
pierson, Plant, Rsmsay,J. +. Randolph, Reef
Ripley, Sergeant, Shepperd, SinnjcL'
on, Sloane, Smith. Sprague, Stanberry, Storr,
slower, Strong, Swami, Swift, Sutherland T''
mr. Tracy T. Turkar ~