Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1832-05-25

by moonlight. AT day dawn every man muster
ed at divisions withou, being ordered. Clearly
dressed, and many with black round their arms.
The band PLAYED the l04th Psalm. the marines
walked in front, and that body was borne round
the ship. which when living had been the PRIDE
of the crew. 1t was hoisted over the larhoard
side, when a general low murInur OF G"d
bless himn' was heard; and solemniy declare
| do not believe there was one dry eye amongst
the whole ships company. Thus died Sir Peter
Parker, and this is the only true account ever
given Of that fatal night
Extract from the report of tn Committee on
Manufactures, of the House of Repre- senta>es,
presented BY Mr.. JOHN Q. ADAMS, Oh the 30
instant.
The draft of the bill presented by the SH;rca
ry of the Treasury, was prepared IN spirit OF
compromise between the two great aud seeming
" conflicting interests chiefly to be affected by
the reduction of the revenue. la this purpose it
was to be expected that it could not be altogether
salts fac tory to either. lis provisions have, &C
cord,nely, been considered as Of questionable
policy by different members Of the Committee,
under the impression, On the one part, that the
reduction of the revenue contempt lated by it was
too extensive, and on the other not extensive
enough. 1t proposes TO reduce the revenue to be
raised from duty on imports. to twelve millions
of dollars, anil thereby to remit the existing du-
ties. upwards of ten millions. This reduction,
in the view of the manufacturing interest of the
country-an interest intimately and closely con.
nected with its internal Improvement, and the
interest specially represented in this House by
this Committees deemed to be excessive. 1t
proposes dim,nution of revenue of more than the
sum liberated from its present appropriation tor
the payment of the National Debt. 4 majority
of this Committee are of opinion, founded upon
principles submitted to the consideration OF the
House in this report, that no reduction should be
made, at least at the present time, equal to the
whole amount Of the annual appropriation thus
liberated, that is ten millions Of Dollars.
Upon this opinion, however, they will not now
further enlarge. The project IN the draft OF the
bill, is considered by other members OF the com
mttee as exceptonable for the opposite reasun,
that the reduction is, in their opinion, not extern
sive enough. Under this variety of views, the
committee have made several notifications in
the bill proposed by the Secretary Of the Treasu-
~, and now report for the consideration Of the
House, bill. not such as would, IN its details,
be satisfactory to any one member Of the Com
mittee but as that upon which alone they have
been able to unite majority of their own voices.
The first and greatest alteration Of the exist
ing system of revenue proposed in the draft OF
the Secretary, is that relating to the articles Of
wool and manufactured woolens-articles in
volving interests perhaps equal to all the other
manufactures in the Union put together, cotton
only excepted. With regard to these articles.
the draft of the Secretary proposes not only
very great reduction in the amount Of duties to
be levied upon the imported articles. bat total
change in the system Of collection, substituting
ad valorem uties in the place of the graduated
minimum established in the preceding Tariff
laws. A change, in the estimation Of many Of
the principal manufacturers of those articles,
more formidable to the prosperity Of their esta.
blshments than the reduction of the duties them
selves.
The committee, after full and deliberate con-
sideratIon of the arguments submitted to them
upon this question by several of The most eminent
Of the manufacturers. and after giving them the
most friendly and respectful attention. have found
their conclusions cuncurrlng with those OF the
Secretary Of the Treasury, that the system of
graduated minimums upon the manufactures OF
woollens must, and ought to be, abolished For
the reasons upon which this opinion is founded,
they refer the House to the report OF the Score.
tary of the Treasury accompanying the draft OF
the bill, to which they will add considerations of
perhaps yet deeper influence upon their minds.
This system appears to majority OF the COM
mttee to constitute the greatest and the most rea
sonabe objection Of the South and Of Southern
interests against the existing Tariff The Com
mittee cannot perceive how or in what manner it
can be essential TO the protection of the domestic
The graduation must necessarily
operate in one or two ways-either as probib.
ton upon the importation Of all articles includ-
ed between the rates Of the respective mnimums,
or by laying duty upon the articles of inter'ne-
date value far higher than that apparent upon the
face OF the law; and thereby effecting all artifi
cial inequality between the burdens imposed up
On articles of the same kind, and the same value,
and an equality of burden alike unnatural upon
articles Of different value, but of the same kind.
Thus, for example, a square yard of brosdcloth
Of one dollars cost, at the place of expectation,
pays duty of AZ cents, while, if the cost at the
place of expectation be but one dollar and one
cent, it is taken and deemed to have cost two
dollars and half, and pays duty of one dollar