Constitutional Whig. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1824-1832, 1832-07-17
CONGRESS.

FINAL PASSAGE OF THE TARIFF.

on the disagrecing votes of the two Houses in re-
laon the Senates amendments to the Tariff Bill,
reported that tho committee had agreed to recon-
mend that the Senate recede from their several
| amendments, and concur in the amendments of
the House.
Before any question taken on this report, Mr..
Bell moved an indefinite postpone7hent of the whole
subject.
Mr.. Haync said, that he considered this motion
premature, and he should, therefore, at this te
vote against it. He thought the proper course was
to take up the amendments and dispose of them.-
Let us at least ascertain the of the Senate
upon these amendments. After the principal u
amendments shall be gone through with, he should
make motion to recommit the bill with instruct
ions to amend it as to provide for general sys-
tenn of ad valorem duties, arranged OH just and
equitable principles. 1t would be time enough
when all these questions shall be disposed of, and
the bill shall be put into the shape which majority
of the Senate shall think proper to give it, to make
decision for against it. For his part, however,
he had no hesitation in saying now, that neither
in the shape which it had assumed III the Senate,
in that which it from the other House.
could he give it his support. He believed that, in
either FORM it worse bill than that of 1925
and when the final question to be taken upon
it, if he could not got il recommitted and eventu
ally considered, he should then vote for its indef
mite postponement.
After few remarks from one two other
gentlemen, the vote taken Mr. Bells mo-
ton, which was lost-yeas TO- nays SO.
The Senate then proceeded TO consider the amend.
ments en- the several items of which long and
desultory debate ensued, which resulted in the Sc
Mates recedng from their several amendments, and
concurring in those of the House. After the loss
| of Mr.. BelPs motion as aforementioned, Mr..
Clay rose, and congratulated the friends of the
American system on the triumph of the projecting
policy, which was about to be consunmated by
the passage of the bill. The Southern Senators,
by voting against the indefinite postponement,
must be considered fixing their appreciation to
the principle of protection which enbra-
ccd in it; he excepted of course, the Sc
ators from 5. Carolina, who had dsclamed it.
The bill based on the principle of giving ade-
quate protection to every branch of domestic in
ton to which the measure of protection not
full, this defect would be supplied hereafter. The
protecting principle being adopted after the pay
ment of the debt. would leave to Congress hereaf-
ter, other duty but ITO carry it out and ortify
it Mr. Clay also relied on the discrimination re-
oognised in the bill, between the protected and
unprotected articles, in which respect the bill
conformed to his resolution which had been so
strongly reprobated at the beginning of the ses-
sion, but in which gentlemen were willing to
acquiesce. Mr.. Clay complained of the conduct
of the Committee of Conference in giving up all
the amendments of the Senate but contended,
! that though woollcns and cotton bagging had not
been taken good care of as iron, yet, he
sidered much gained by the sanction which
would be given TO the system, by the passage of
the bill, he hoped the bill would pass, and that its
| defects might be corrected at the next session.
| Mr.. Dickerson indicated the of the
Committee, and said he had yielded the amend
!
sist upon them would be to lose the Bill That he
considered it good bill for the manufacturers
and If further protection should be found
ry on woollens, any other articles Congress could
give 1T hereafter.
Mr.. Wilkins explained his course i'm the Com
mittee of Conference. He believed the bill as it
came from the other House, to be beneficial to
the manufacturers as the act of 1928, and perhaps
more so; and as this bill would tend to settle the
question, and establish the system, he could not
/ consent to risk the loss of it for seven per cent
upon woolens Mr.. w. declared himself firm
friend of the protecting policy, and in voting for
the bill as it came from the other House, he con-
sdered himself maintaining that system in full
yigor and acting in strict conformity with the in
strucions of the Pennsylvania Legislature 10 do
Committee. They had given up the woollens with
out struggle; still he was not himself disposed to
abandon the bill on that account. Further protect
ion might be extended hereafter.
Mr.. Hayne explained his own course in the
Committee. Being opposed to the whole system,
he had voted to recede in every case, and ho would
do the other gentlemen, (Messrs. Wilkins and
Dickerson, the justice, to say, that they had not
| yielded an inch, while there any hope of car
| ryng their point. When it became certain that
| by striking out seven per cent. woollens, and
half cent. on cotton bugging and sugar, they
might lose the whole bill, which they Justly con-
sdered eminently beneficial to the manufacture
rcrs, they very naturally gave up insignificant
part, to secure the rest. He would do the Justice
to the Senator from New Jersey, TO say, that nei
ther on this occasion, nor any other, had he mani
tested the slightest disposition TO yield one iota of
the protecting system, and in Supporting such a
bill as tbis he had given up nothing to the South
Mr.. II. stated that he had seen a letter in the
Committee from one of the strongest friends of the
American system in this country ASSERTING that
this bill better for the projected interests than
the bill Of 1928, aud urging its friends on DO ac
count TO suffer it to be lost After all however
Mr.. III. said that these amendments presented the
smallest of all small questions that he had ever
heard gravely discussed in a legislative body
whether wooens should have projection Of so or
81 per cent and the duty sugar and cotton
bagging, be reduced three or four per cent still
leaving the duties all Of the protected articles at
much higher ad valorum rates than thew were in
1923. He concluded by saying, that he sbould
certainly not vote for the bill either in its amended
form, in the shape it came from the other
House. There very little difference between
them, and liz either shape, in his view of the mat
ter, it made the system worse than it now is
The amendments having been gone through,
Mr.. Haype moved to recomiait the bill with in !
structions to amend it, to provide for a svs |
tenn of ad valoTem duties, arranged as TO reduce
the revenue TO tho wants of the country
The President decided that such motion oo,Id
not be received the Senate must now be conf,ed
to its action, the disagreeing votes of the two
Houses.
Mr.. Poindexter thcrcupon moved to posfno,o a.
bill indefinitely, saying, that this was now the onlv
way of distinctly expressing the sense oftbose who
were opposed to the bill, as the recedno from
next amendment would make it law He ex.
planned his objections to the bill, which he cons
dcred as recognition OF the protecting policy and
the final establishment of the American system to
which nc always had been and should he or
posed.
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