Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1842-07-08
order obyae of the dangers and disasters which
they, even more than he, believed to hang over the
country and its future destinies.
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order 10 obviae some of the dangers and disasters which
they, even more than he, believed to hang over TIT
country and its future destinies.
i The bills were then read, as follows:
BILL for laying and collecting
Il duties on imports. -.
Be enacted by The Senate and House Of Representatives. Of IA
o. 4meriea Compress assembied That all laws e9Istne
force on The Goth June d. is regulating ana M n1ns s y,
wares merchandise imported into the u and prrscrhn!
the mode oil apprasng such goods and collecting Shh Gs
force they on thai day. until Otherwise provided b,
some law hereafter passed. except nt Till such ''
higher tan what equivalent to 70 cent on The faue vi tie
ARTICLES imported.
BILL provide for system of home valuation on goods i'm
ported into the United States.
Be naffd by e ssnae and House Of Representatives. Of he
uation of goods imported into the shall be
follows Isl. The at The place Of expectation
be Fixed IN the manner prescribed In San alter and amend
1872 and with charges freight and all matters
usually increasing the value here that Abroad there shall Le
added twenty per cent III of Imports from beyond the tape
u upe' M" '.en per cent III a elss ~. t
aa S:a t aar ":a "pe e END The " 10
lie Waite thereof at TIE port where entered for oil purposes
Mr.. HUNTINGTON said the question orleave to in.
roducc the bill involved question Of some moment
The bill extending the revenue laws of great i'm
poriance Ii proposed to extend the existing law,
ccpt that the rate of duties 10 be collected under il
shall not exceed 20 per cent. Mr. H. contended that
this wns revenue BILL TO all nenis and purposes; and
could not such, be ginaed in the Senate the Con
suon combining such right 10 the House Of Repre-.
sen,a,ves 1t bill to raise money for the support
of Government Though it was bill TO extend all ex.
istng law, yet it proposed to modify that law; and it
was the same its legal effect, if it origi-
nal bill levying duties The Senate had on one
son. gone far to rule bill issue Treasury notes
out OF order, the ground that IT virtually 4
venue bIll-thc object being 10 raise revenue-and
should have originated in the House Of Representatives
Now, il that and practical construction Of
al tttisu nj In ich
Of duties and for the support Of Co.
vernmeni, could not he originated in the Senate. II
TO continue existing laws, and was, therefore
bill to raise money. But IT vas, in his opinion, and
he had expressed himself heretofore, that after the
Both june, there would he no revenue laws and the
same ground had been taken by other Senators that
side, he Wing sde) that on this very day there was
law by which cent OF revenue could be collect
ed. If we have power, by existing law 10 collect
duties, then this bill not merely TO extend
sling law but to raise revenue by the imposition OF
duties Such, he maintained, its effect, and
should thereto re originate in the House
He was Of the condition in which the country
was placed and particularly the manufacturing inter
ess His eyes closed 10 the interests of those
whom he represented. He stated some time since
when the Tariff bill, which is vetoed, under con-
sderation-he necessity for IFS passage 10 guard the
revenues of the country, and the manufacturing inter
esis. Where this question and who is
sponsibe for The deporabe state OF things' Is
On this Incidental question, he would not discuss that
point-bu he would only say thai, if duties could not
be collected the fault did not lie at their door 1t was
said by the President, in the veto message, that he
advised that duties could be collected under
the law of 1888. Whether it the Secretary
OF the Treasury, (who, his report the finances,
said that no duties could be collected under exist
ing laws,) who advised him, he did not know
or whether it great legal mind of the Cabi-
net, or elsewhere, he did not But he would
auch opininu wOud
fad that when the question came before The judicial
tribunals it would there would be but one opinion
that no ,enue could be collected the inPora.
snhsaqaont In tho 30t Of June, without new e-
gsation MIR. Fl. then made remarks on The Ia
riff laws Of 1882, the provisions of which, as 10 the
mode ofossessng the duties, were he said repealed by
the law of $685. which law, after the 3Oth of june pro-
vidcd for home valuation. Though It repealed the
mode of assessing duties, il did not undertake to Tx
substitute for thai mode, leaving it open to subsequent
legislation.
IMr Buchanan lin an under tone.) You Wings
have majority in both llouses-why have you not
egsated long since; aud fixed the principle OF assess
ing duties under the home raluation:1
Mr. H. then referred TO the debates and proceedings
on the Compromise act, and quoted copious extracts
from them TO show that the right positively denied
10 the President and Secretary Of the Treasury TO make
any rule after the 39th Of June, TO carry ont the prln
cpe of home valuation but that act left the details to
effect that system 10 the subsequent legislation OF Con-
gress.
Mr. WOODBURY. did not consider the bills now
offered as bills raise revenue-ei,her by increasing
duties or continuing laws heretofore in force, author
isnn higher duties than collectable; therefore he
did not see how they could be viewed measures not
coming within the province of the Senate to originate
His object was TO retain duties they now are, at
90 per CENT according 10 the Compromise aci; but TO
apply To its collection the machinery OF the revenue
law of 1882 That object was certainly not beyond Inc
constitutional power OF the Senate to originate lie
,L,t yaalif M dut o.
be collected under existing laws, it would not be com.
petent for the Senate originate bills which would
effect the collection Such, however, he assumed, was
not the case. But, long 1t was believed by those
who had pay duties, or asserted IN Congress, mat
there was doubt the subject it was competent for
the Senate TO originate decaratory measure setting
aside such doubts.
Mr. EVANS observed that he very we'll aware
of The importance of the subject brought TO the notice
uflhe Senate by The honorable Senator from ~ HnmP'
shire and that it necessary there should be some
spcedy legislative action relation to It, But seem
ed TO him at least doubtful whether that action could
oropcrly arise in the Senate. lie would, however, he
confessed feel disposed 10 strain point on an occasion
so urgent ascertain whether 1t IS possible Tor the Sc
nate To enter upon the subject without violation OF the
rule laid down BY the Constitution, iuy impressed WIN
the conviction that the best interests OF the country de-
mand.d immediate action lie should not, therefore,
object to the introduction OF the two bills proposed ny
the honorable Senator, even though he had strong
doubts that the Senate could originate such measures.
These doubts rested the fact that the intention and
object of the bills are evidently to raise revenue for
the Treasury or in other words, the effect Of which
will be to bring into the Treasury money from su.esd
measures for which, is the province OF the House oil
Representatives 10 originate. Now, if the qneston
was whether such would be the effect of the bills, he
could not see any objection to entering upon at once
But if the laws, they stand at present, cannot he made
available for supplying the Tleasury-and H. by tnese
bills that defect be remeded and those laws can, oy
,her means, be no, only made efficient, but placed ona
more stable foundation, he conceived the very effect
thus 10 be Produced would be such as to throw doubt
IN The constitutional power of the Senate to originate
em-nasmuch that effect must be to place IN 'he
Treasury means which it would not have but tor them.
If The argument was we'll grounded, that no revenue
could be collected by the laws they now stand mere
could not be doubt that it would not be competent
for the Senate to entertain the initiation OF hese
LII, lndepd The Senator from New HampshEe,