Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1833-02-16

bavnE next read through the third section OF the BILL
VT T. said that after the expiration OF term OF years,
THIS section laid down rue by which the duies TO
DC reduced to the standard which had been
long aud earnestly contended tor Until oherw Use di
rected, ia default OF provision being made the
wants oil the government in 1912, rule thus provi-
ded Tor the rate OF duties the ea,r Congress being in
the time authorized to aiopi any other rule which
The eNgencies OF the country It's financial condition,
might require. That il say il, instead OF the duty OF
~ per cent opposed 10 or IL per cent OF duty suit
hcfen oi 20 per should be found necessary, pro-
dnce rcvrnu. to deiray the expenses OF al
administration of the government, there nothing
prevent euher oil those rates or other from being hx
ell upon; Will the rate OF 20 per per inruduc-
ed TO guard INST any failure the part OF Congress
This section of the bill, Mr.. c. sa contained also ano-
,he clruSe, suggested by that spirit OF harmony con.
ciston which he prayed might preside the Councils
OF the Union at this trying moment IL provided (wha
those persons who engaged in manufactures have
long asiousy required for their that duties shall
he paid in ready noncyand shah thus get rid OF
whole OF that credit system which inroa made
in regard TO wooens by the act of the last session This
section further contained proviso that nothing in any part
oi this Act should be construed TO interfere with ree
exercise othe power OF Congress to lay any of
duties, in the event of breaking out bewcc this
country and any foreign Power.
Mr. c. having then read the fourth section Of the bill,
said that one oil the considerations strongly urged for
reduction oil the Tariff at this time was, the govern
men was likely 10 be placed in dilemma by having an
Overlooking revenue; and this apprehension the
ground oil AN attempt totally 10 change the protective po
icy OF the country. The section which he had read MIR.
C. said, was effort TO guard against this evil by re-
lcving altogether from duty portion of the article, Of
import now subject 10 it, Some Of these he said would
under the present rate Of duty upon them produce
siderable revenues the article OF silks alone would pro.
badly yield half million Of dollars per annum. If il
were possible to pacfy dissenson and let things
take their course, he believed that difficulty need DE
aPprehendcd IT, said he, the bill which this body pass
ed at Tho last session OF Congress, and has again
this session. shall pass the other House. and become
law and the gradual reduction of duties should place
which contemplated by the first section Of this bill we
shall have settled two IF threc) OF the great oucs.
tons which have agated this country, that OF the Tariff
of the Public Lands, and will add Of Internal Improve,
he n surnlus
that surplus might be applied until the year 1872 to the
completion of the works of Internal Imnrovement ,Ir.,
ny commenced; and after 1912, reliance for all funds
Tor purposes OF Internal Improvement should he placed
upon the operation of the Land Bill to which he had al.
ready referred.
1t was not his object, Mr. c. sal in referring 4, that
measure in connection with that which he about to
propose, TO consider them united i'm their fate being
DESTROYS, partial he might lie both that each should
stand or TALL upon its intrinsic merits III this section
Of nc oii' adding to the number OF free articles should
become law, along with The reduction OF duties proposed
ny the rst section OF the bill, il by no means sure
That we should have surplus all He had
oeeh aSomhed indeed at the process of reasoning by
which the Secretary of the Treasury arrived at the
conclusion that should have a suplus revenue at
ALL though he admitted that such conclusion could no
arrived at III no other way. But what this process
Dues oil certain rate amount " hch the
produce known the Secretary proposing rcduclio1
oil ue rate oil duty, supposes that the duties will be re
duced IN proportion 10 the OF the reduction OF
duty Now, Mr. c. said, calculation coulI be more
uncertain than that Though, perhaps the best that the
Secretary could have made it was still all uncertantv
Deepen lent upon the winds and the waves on the muta
OF al
mere was any Uuih IN political economy, il could not
he that the result would gree with the predictions for VIC
are instructed by all experience that the consumption
any aucie IN proportion to the reduction of its price
and that in general it may be takes a rule that the d
~ upon an article forms portion of its price. Mr. c.
said he did impute any iuproper de sion IN .nv
one but, II II had been intended scheme for getting
nd ci the Tariff could have been moro artfy devised IN
ehectis purposes than that which thus calculated the re-
venue ana III aIdliion, assumed that the expenditure of
The Government every year would be so much &c
Gould any one here say Dhd the future expenditure of
ne N nf k.s
growing community, can say what will be the eypcn-
"ture oil the Government year hence much less
what II viii be- three four, five years hence! Yet
n"u peen estimated, on assumed amounts founded on
such uncertain data, both of income and expenditure
u"t The revenue might be reduced so many millions a
| year, ~ "
Mr. C. asked pardon Tor this dgres, on and ,e,urned 10
me eXaninaiin Of ar cles in the fourth section which
were pr0po-ed TO be lett tree OF duty The d, les nm
these articles e said varied from TO 10 ner =, al
Va'orem; b low as they were, the aggrepae amount
OF revenue which they produced considerable By
' ON OF Tue last scssou The d. tics French silks
hAed at hive per cent and thai Chinese silks al len NO,
cent adj vsloren. BY the bill proposed the duty ON
french silks was proposed TO be repealed, leaving the
Othcr untouched re would frankly state WHY he made
ms distinction II had been subject of anxious e,ire
win him TO see our commerce W ia FIance increased
france hough NOT so large customer in The great
oil cur country az Great Britain, great GROWING
ner re had been much struck with fact going 10 prove
' w'ch accidentally came 20 his knowledge the other
days which was, that within the short period of fourteen
years The amount OF consumption in France OF the great
southern staple had be Ell fyiDIed gan IL -,
dersood that the French silks of lower grades of oua
" cOud not sustain competition with the Chinese
out some discrimination of this sort He had understood
aso mat The duty imposed upon this article at the last
son had been very much complained of on the part of
FRANCES and, considering the circumstances
WIN The relations between the two governments il an
peared TO him desirable make this discrimination in r.
vor OF the French product If the Senate should thing
differently, he should be content IT, indeed thev
shoih hlnk proper TO strike this section
ne should cheeriuiiy submit TO their decision.
After reading the fifth and sixth sections
hif' Gay SAID lie would now take a view NJ son,e
OF INC objections which would be made TO the bill II
might be said that the act prospective that II hound
our successors and that had no power Tins 10 LnJ
them Ii was true that the was prospec Give and n
was almost every act which passed but W couId
repeal the next day II the established usage IN
give All acts prospective operation In every tariff law
mere were some provisions which 20 into operation inn
"euateIy anu others at future time Each Congress To-
gdeG according 10 their own views OF proprety their
acts dd not bind their successors but created
public Faith which would rasy be broken hui II ,hs
soud go into operation he hoped against hope
that II might be had not doubt that il wouId no adhered
W ny a' PdTes There was but contingency which
WON" Ishuer change necessary, and that was the i'm
eFVehlon OF war, which provided for in the hill
ne hands OF Congress left united in , event and
ey w0nIa DE at liberty TO resort to any mode OF taxation
whch hey might propose. But, II we suppose peace IN
continue, there would he motive for dis,rbin the ar
angement but the contrary every motive 10 carry il
.o erect IN the next place, il will be affected to The
olli ny TIE friends OF the protective pocy of whom no
ned himself to be one, for his mind was inmutablv fix
~ IsVo OF That policy, that abandoned the power of pro-
ecuon put he commended, in the first place that sus
Pson OF me exercise OF the power an abandon
nent Of II; Tor the power the Constitution according
20 our lneory-was put there by its trainers and could on
" ne dislOdged by the people, After the wear 1870 The
OI' PROVIDED mat the power should be exercised in Ger.