The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-08-27

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OF the nlted States to inquire into rumozs2 And be-
Cause certain matters presented by these rumors
to suit the personal views of the President they
to inquire what the estimates of that officer were
| he Mr. Archery wished it to be known that he
would not directly indirectly, take any step for
the purpose OF conforming the action OF the Senate to
the views OF the Executive Alter having had a re-
port from the Secretary of the Treasury, they were
told by rumor that there were were certain opposing
views of the President and that they could not pro-
| coed to legislate until they procured them
| The CHAIR here interrupted the debate, and said
| that under the order of yesterday, it now the
hour to proceed TO the orders of the day-the Re-
venue bill.
| few remarks made by Messrs. KIN G,
CRiTTENDEN, HUNTINGTON, and others, and
on motion of
1 Mr.. ARCHER, the resolution was laid upon the
| table until tomorrow.
The Senate then proceeded to the consideration Of
the bill " to provide revenue from imports, and to
change and modify existing laws imposing duties on
imports, and for other purposes
| The bill was amended SO that it may go into ope-
ration from and after the day of its passage.
The amendments suggested by the Committee on
Finance were taken up seriam, nearly all of which
gave rise to debate.
On the amendment to reduce the duty gunny
cloth from five to four cents per square yard being
Iead
] Mr.. WALKER moved to amend it by inserting
/ the word "three;" but the amendment rejected
The duty then fixed on the suggestion of that
gentlemen, at three and half cents per square yard
l-yeas rs, nays %.
| The amendment reducing the duty on iron in bars
or bolts not manufactured in whole in part by roll
ing, to SIXTEEN instead of seventeen dollars,
jected-yeas 81 nays %; and the remainder Of the
clause was modified by placing the duty bar or bolt
iron, made wholly in part by rolling twenty-five
| dollars per ton.
! The amendment placing the duty on iron in pigs to
nine dollars per tOn and that striking out pates
sheets, Of which copper the material of chief value
of utIah arficl
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The following provso to the fourth section was
read viz: "Propided, that all foreign coal imported
into the United States shall be equally entitled with
other mportatiOns to the drawbacks OF duties paid on
being exported thence and upon satisfactory proof be-
ing adduced, conormably to regulations TO be pre-
scribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, that the
coal SO exported, if not landed abroad not re-
landed In the United States, but consu ned on
board the vessel in which it exported, upon the
voyage of expectation, before arriving at the foreign
port of expectation"
The amendment rejected-yeas s, nays 80.
The duty on box chronOmeters, watches, or parts
OF watches, and watch materials not specified and on
| diamonds, was fixed and half per centum
at rdlorem, on gems, pearls, precious stones seven
per centum dd ralorem.
The amendment imposing duty oftwo and half
| cents per pound on brown clayed sugar. agreed
An amendment regulating the duty upon the vari-
Gus kinds of wines was adopted.
Tea and Coffee when imported in American vessels
from places of their growth and production, to be
admitted duty free. This agreed to by yeas and
nays, as follows
| YEAS-Messrs. Bates, Berrien, Buchanan, Choate
Clayton Conrad, Crafts, Crtenden, Cuhbert, Day
| ton, Evans, Graham, Huntington, Linn, Mangum,
| Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Simmons, Smith,
of Ia, Sprague, Tallmadpe Walker, White, Will
| liams, w oodbrtge, Woodbury-28.
| NAYS-Messrs. Allen Archer Barrow, Bayard,
Benton, Calhoun Fulton, Henderson, King, Preston,
Rives Sewer, Smith, of Connecticut, Tappan,
| Young-l5.
The Senate placed in the list of free articles
plates sheets of copper for sheathing vessels, but
teen inches wide and forty-eight inches long, and
weighing from fourteen to thirty-four per
| square foot"
| The vote stood as follows, viz:
! YEAS.-Messrs. Allen, Archer, Bayard, Benton,
Berrien Buchanan Calhoun, Clayton Conrad, Cuth-
BERT Evans Fulton, Graham, Henderson, King,
Phelps, Preston, Rives, Smith of Connecticut, Tall
madge, Tappan, Walker, Williams Woodbury.,
Wright Young-26.
NAYS.-Messrs. Bates Choate, Crafts, Miller,
Morehead, Porter, Simmons, Smith of Indiana,
Sprague, Woodbrdge-l0.
The fifteenth section was amended to read as fol-
lows viz:
"That in case Of all goods, wares. and merchan
Disc imported on and after the day this act goes into
operation, entitled debenture under existing laws
no drawback of the duties shall be allowed ON the
same, unless said goods, wares, merchandise, shall
be ex ported from the United States within THREE
years from the date of Importation of the same; nor
shall the additional rate of duty levied by this
goods, wares, and merchandise imported in foreign
| vessels, be refunded in case of re-exportaion."
A n amendment adopted to the effect there
shall be allowed drawback foreign sugar refined
in the United States and exported thererom, equal
in amount to the duty paid the foreign sugar which
shall be manufac ured to be ascertaned under such
.k.Il H., a..
i the Treasury.
Several other amendments proposed by the Com
mitiee on Finance concurred In.
| Mr.. ALLEN offered amendment to include
''salt among the free articles; but it was rejected
yeas L. nays 81
MIR. EVANS remarked that they had performed
very good days work and if agreeable to the
Senate, he would now move to ad journ, with the un
Outstanding that the bill should be passed omorrow
and sent to the House on Saturday as it was desra
BILE to adjourn sine de on Monday, if possible.
A message was received from the House of Repre-
sentatives stating that they had passed Joint reso-
luton proposing that members of Congress shall not
receive compensation during voluntary absence from
their public duties and asking for concurrence of the
Senate therein
The resolution read and the question being
stated, Shall it be read second time?
MIR. BARROW objected, and called for the yeas
and nays, which ordered-aA being taken, re-
; sulted-Yeas IS, nays 10, as follows:
YEAS-Messrs Allen, Bates, Benton, Buchanan,
Calhoun, Crafts Crittenden Fulton, Graham King,
Morehead, SEWER Smith, of Connecticut, Smith, Of
Indiana, Tappan, Walker, Williams, Woodbury.,
{ Young-I9.
NAYS-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bayard, Berr-
en-, Choate, Clayton, Conrad, Dayton, Evans, Hen
derson, Linn, Mangum, Merrick, Miller, Phelps,
Preston, Rives Sprague, Wright-l9.
So the Senate refused to order the resolution to
second reading-n effect it rejected.
Mr.. BARROW moved to reconsider the vote just
taken.
Several gentlemen expressed the hope that the
ton would prevail.
Mr.. BARROW said that he had had no idea of