Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1830-06-01
MONDAY MORNING., May 81, 1880.
Congress Colonial 1Sade-7ns Teto.


The proceedings of Congress on Thursday and Fri
day, particularly the proceedings of the FL of Repre-
sentatives were of great and unusual interest; and
| we shall publish them at large to morrow.
What is the precise nature of the information re-
ceived by the Executive, what the foundation upon
which he seems SO confidently to expect successful
negotiation for the restoration of the Colonial Trade
and which has induced him to ask the contingent pow
given by Mr. Cambreeng's bill has not transplred
We may and must presume, that his Intelligence is
such to have satisfied him that Mr. McLane q sue
cess probable, if not certain. Still less do we
know what equivalent has been given, or arguments
addressed to England to prevail with her to relax her
regulations. The last intelligence from Enpish news
papers ridiculed the expectation indulged in this
country of direct trade and the National Intelloen
Ger of Thursday says:
''There is no doubt, from the bill which the House
took up after reading the message, that the conmu
ncation embraced information received from our Mi
mister IN England, touching his negotiation with the
British Government respecting the Colonial Trade:
and It Is Observation-Disclosures the House Immediate
passed the bill which had originated in the ancpa-
ton OF different rcsulthat the dispatches furnish.
ed but little if any hope of any satisfactory arrauue
ment being effected by Minister on the subject of
the Trade in question"
Why, if the dispatches furnished but little hone of
an arrangement did the President anticipate success
and ask for the power granted him by Mr. Cs.
bile We cannot explain The incongruity. The Bri-
tish Ministry deaf to the inercessions of the
former administration. Why, and for chat, have
| they yielded to this We look to the explanation
and the terms of,he Treaty. with no small curiosity
A short time will show.
The following is the bill allnded to-
Bill to amend the acts regulating the commercial
intercourse between the United States and certain
colonies of Great Britain
Sec. I. Be IL enacted, &c. That whenever .ha Pro
sdent of the United States shall receive Satisfactory e.
violence that the government of Great Britain will o.
pen the ports nits colonial possessions. in the West
lndes on the continent of South America the BAHIA
i ma Islands, the Caicos, and the Bermuda or Somer
Islands, to the vessels of the United States for an in
definite for limited term; thpt the vessels of the
United States and their cargoes entering the colo
NAL ports aforesaid shall not be subject to other or
higher duties OF tonnage mpost, charges of any
| other description, than would be imposed on British
Vesses OF their ca goes arriving in said colonial pos
sessions from the United States that the vessels of
the U. States may import into the said colonial pos
sessions from the United States any article or articles
which could be imported in British vessel into the
said possessions from the United States and that the
vessels ofthe United States may export from the Br
fish colonies aforementioned, to any country vbate
yer, other than the dominons or possessions of Great
Britain any article articles that can be eynorted
thereffomln British vessel to any country other than
The British domnions possessions as aforesaid that
then and in such case, the President ofthe States
shall be, and he hereby authorized issue his pro-
clamatlon, declaring that he has received sch owl.
dence and, herenpon from the date of such proca-
nation, the ports Of the u. States shall be opened
indefinitely or for term Xed the case NAV be- to
British vessels coming from tho said British colonial
possessions, and their cargoes, subject other
higher duty of tonnage mpost, charge of any
description whatever than would be levied on the yes
sells OF the United States, their goes arriving
from the said British possessions; and it shall be
lawful for the said British vessels import into the
| United States, and to export therefrom any art-
| Gle or articles which may be imported or exported
IN vessels OF the United States and the act, entitled
An act concerning navigation, passed on the eigt-
tcenih day OF April, one thousand eight hundred and
eighteen; an act supplementary thereto passed the f
teenth day of May. one thousand eight hundred and
twenty; and an act, entitled IAN regulate the
commercial intercourse between the United tpes and
certain British ports passed the first day of March
one thousand eight hundred and twenty three are in
such hereby declared to be suspended, or abso-
| luiely repealed, may be agreed upon with the
| British Government
Sec. O. .and be it further enucted. That, whene-
yer the por's of the United States shall have been
opened under the authority given in the first section
eff this act British vessels and their cargoes shall be
admitted to entry in the ports of the United States
from the islands, provinces, or colonies of Great
Britain, on or near the North American continent,
and North or East of the United States.
OF much greater importance in our opinion than
the West India trade-about which much more ella
NOR raised than it deserved i, being we'll known
that the CT, cutous trade now carried on is as valuable
as The former direct trades the refusal of the Pre-
sden to sign The appropriation to the Maysville and
Lexington turnpike road. As we foretold, he does
not occupy the constitutional ground but usties his
veto on various grounds of expedieucy. What are
to be the political consequences of his interposng his
constitutional privilege to arrest the will of The ma
jority, in point deemed of such vital interest may
be easily imagined The step on the thresh-
oil, by the remuneration of Jacssonism, on the part
of one member of Congress (lr. Stanberry of o J
! and the immediate secession of Maryland, Kentucky
and the N w. States, viii be the almost inevitable
| effect.
We publish The Presidents long patacer-it well
! deserves the name We have no room for comment.
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