The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1842-01-12
Cor:.sgD,lIsnce of the Charleston Courier.
WASHING TON Jan. B..

city OF Charleston, appeared .anu tooh ms sc.'.
Mr.. Cost Johnson, Wilo vas eatileA 10 ule
floor, onthe reference question, SPOKE a. coh-
siderable ieunth, in favor OF sending the sab,ect
os the tariti' 70 tie Committee on ways and
Means. II6 also vnii;ca.ed himself and the
whg party from the c!iarge that they were
nleirrJ 10 proIcc'iye .ariiE Ru., he remark
ea. that tile de!ic!t in the Treasury was now
SlI,0;0A10, ard, in aao.hcr year, would be at
Isoss $50 ,0,jU. .GGt!--:a ra:sng which revenue
from co:n:aerce-t' ere would necessarily be
saii...e Il prOlcc .oA fol- manufactures. He op-
posed, .nwever, any principle of taxation MOI
iniea.:el< solely ior revenue; and declared ms
hostility evcn to tle tariff OF 1919. He argued,
too, that there was strong and perpetual nos
stil;ty betweenibe iii:ercs: o. commerce and ag-
ricul,ure, on the one side, and domestic manu-
features, on the other and he would, as he SAID,
support no system of duties which did not recog-
nize and protectthe great corn, meat and tobac-
co interests. He insisted oncountervaillng du-
ties, which would force. the governments OF
Europe to do us Justice by admitting our bread
stuffs and tobacco,s duty free. Mr.. L. c. Clark
of N. Y, after adverting to the length OF time
that the subject had consumed and the necessity
of attending to some other business, moved the
previous question.
Mr.. Fillmore modified his motion so as to refer
so much Of the message as relates to dlscrl-
minating tariff and manufactures to the CON-
mittee on Manufactures. The previous ques-
ton was recorded by the casting vote OF the
Speaker-the vote being 90 to ~. The main
question was ordered to be put, yeas lOl, nays
97-close enough The motion to refer to the
Ways and Means was lost, 20 to l04, and Mr.
Fillmore's motion then succeeded.
The remaining portion of the Presidents
-....oro ,,e then roferred THE adjustment
of this question of reference, after all the de-
bate upon it, shews, distinctly, that majority
of the House leans to the protective system.
It must be recollected that all our protective
tariffs have been made by the Western and Mid
die States, and in opposition to large majority
of the representatives from the Eastern States.
If, now, the representatives from New England
are compelled by the results of the former poll
cy Of the government, to sustain system into
which they were reluctantly driven, the protec-
tive policy will certainly be taken up.
In the Senate, to-day, Mr. Huntington, of
Con-. spoke on the motion of Mr.. Tallmadge to
refer to a Select Committee the "plan of f.
nance" He took strong grounds against Presi-
dent TYLER and his whole scheme. He declared
it to be utterly incapable of any amendment
1t could not be freed from the objection that it
was government bank, and thai it subjected
the whole treasury and the revenues to the Exc
cutive. But even if this objection could be re-
moved, still he contended that the scheme
would be inefficient for any useful purpose
Mr. Bates, of Mass, will have the floor for
tomorrow.
WASHINGTON, Jan. A.
The debate on the Presidents plan Of finance
was continued in Senate to-day, with great ar
dor. Mr.. Bates, of Mass. spoke IN tone OF
more courtesy towards the President, and more
federation towards the scheme than any one has
done before. Still, he had no idea OF taxing the
scheme as it was presented He said, there was
a necessity for doing something. A bank of dis
count, he argued, was now out OF the question,
5s ana sss St 5ssfa&eas paper for
the purpose of uniform currency, would be
very valuable. He hoped therefore, that the
scheme would be so modified as to be beneficial,
and that Congress would then adopt it. MIR.
Bates speech was quite Tyler speech.
Mr.. Fllmore's project answers these questions
in the negative. The poor mans salt andougar,
andth coarse fabricks which compose his clo-
thing, are to be taxed, not because the nation
wants his hard earnings, but because the factory
owners have fixed their afe ctions upon them,
and have set their tools in Congress at work to
extort them by devices Of law.
MIR. Barrow, of Louisiana, took very differ
ent view of the matter. He made the most
personal speech that has been made against the
Cabinet. He intimated that the President was
dshonest-that he had promised this and that,
and broken the promise. He always dstrusted,
he said, MIR Tyler's professions of integrity and
religion and would prefer that he would stick to
the Constitution. He attacked the scheme as
plan to reduce the whole American people to
dependence on the Executive. 1t would, very
soon, destroy the liberties of the country. 1t
had been read with ridicule by one party and
scorned by the other. He was opposed to the
reference-no good could come out of it, no
modification would make it acceptable or expe-
dent. He hoped the Senate would strangle in
its cradle this monstrous progeny of Masachu-
sets federalism and Virginia attractions.
MIR. Moorehead, of KY. has the floor for to-
morrow. You will Judge, from all that has
transpired, that the scheme finds no favor
There is little chance that it will, in any form be
adopted
In the House, to-day, Mr.. Adams occupied
some time in pressing his motion to refer GER
tain petitions to abolish all rules excluding abo-
,ltion petitions, to a Select Committee. Mr..
Merrweather, of Ga. moved to amend the same
so as to instruct the Committee to consider the
proprety of abolishing the previous question re-
establishing the one hour rule; and providing
that bills should be taken out of the Committee
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