Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1832-11-23

Mediterranean Fund and by tho restoration Of peace the
annexed table exhibits the general TGJifof the United
States, resulting from the OF Congress inn
posing, augmenting aud modifying the duties upon inn
ported merchandise compared with the rates Of duties pro-
posed for the Tariff This 4" the general Tariff OF
the u. s. presented in The table, had nothing To do
with the expiring duties it consisted solely, Ito use
the words which headed the column containing the duties
payable under the existing laws) OF present perma-
of duty" Further in the report OF the Sec
retary from which the foregoing quotations made, he
says, " it has been proposed make addition to the
customs, &c. These Instances mig be multiplied indie
fnitey from the documents of the day.
But waving all exceptions to MIR. C.s technicology
the subject OF duties, (Which, when the sink
ngtund, shall find to he ju as unfortunate that
branch of poll ical science and conccdg To him the Ii
of taking the temporary, instead Of the permanent
duty, as the standard by which 10 frame statements respect
ing the comparative merits OF permanent tarH,it
still avals him nough Ills fact will yet be false fact;
from The following facts will appear The act Of
July, 1872 has already been in another place. dou
bcd all duties on imports for period limited to year
after the close OF the war. This period expired the
nth February, 1916 Before expired. the Secretary
| the Treasury recommended that the double duties should
tic continued for short time longer in order avoid any
change until the new tariff which he was then preparing,
in obedience 20 call Of Congress could be acted on.
This provisional measure although strenuously opposed
prevailed. The act OF Feb lSl6, continued the double
duties until the 30h of June ensuing; and fur ther provd
ed, that after that date, "un Tariff of duties shall
be established by law the duties imports should
the same that existed prior TO the act OF July 1912, with
an addition thereto OF ~ per cent IT, therefore, take
temporary duties the standard by which enligher
the unnitiaed the character of those imposed by
permanent we must take Tor standard OF the
Tariff OF 1876 those temporary duties which suppressed
ed: that is to say, the single duties, with the addition
~ per cent The question will then be, whether the du
ties under the Tariff of 1916 lower than the
duties, raised AZ per cent? With regard to ono class
articles, the question is answered Document No 7
where has been that of the duties
cd even above tho point. A further will b,
found in the following table IL comprises the article
which arranged by the Secretary his second class
as being those which required the encouragement of
protective duty, contradisinguished from the Secmit
Of duty "amounting wholly nearly to prohibition
> SECoND CLASS OF ARTICLES.
IL will be recocctcd, that the Secretary arranged tn
articles which duties be imposed in three class
The first comprising those articles which prob
bitory duties might be laid the second those which
that date, required only protective duty and the hirt
those which proposed adjust the dut
TO the amount OF revenue which il is necessary dra,
from them" The following table comprises tho article
i of the second class and exhibits the then present. dut,
the duty proposed by the Secretary, and the duty
L bished by Congress After the measure had got beior
Congress- several other articles thought Of whic
admitted of protection ii will be borne ia mind that Il
J. Sccretarys Tariff presented preliminary .ketc
and ground work for the full discussion which the suhe
to receive in Congress. II his duties not adop
s. ed exactly recommended il because after full di
cussiom appeared that the system at that stage did
: require them 10 he fixed high. No who reads Il
C system required them TO be fixed twice or five times
IT, high, they would have been fixed if Mr. Calhoun,
III vote and influence could have determined the question
favor OF their being carried up to that point. As will
ID in the next No, he always voted company wi
he Messrs. Inghdm aud Sergednt,-who belonged TO ii
'e same plus ultra order of industry gulAors as Il
ie Speaker, Mr.. Clay