The daily Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1841-1845, 1842-03-08
gmemtp= Aeoemth Congress.
IN SENATE,
MONDAY, March I, 1874:
SECOND SESSION.

Mr.. WILCOX was then qualified, and took his seat
in the Senate
rison and Others Inhabitants Of township six Of range
two, east Of the third principal meridian in Franklin
county Illinois, praying for the privilege OF surren-
derng section sixteen reserved for the use of schools
in said township, which they represent as unfit for
cultivation, and to select other lands in lieu of the
same.
Mr. WRIGHT presented the memorial of citizens
of Clinton county, New York, demonstrating against
the passage of any law to permit the importation Of
railroad iron, iron for steamboats, free Of Duty and
praying that all iron may be subject TO duty Of hr
ty per cent
Mr. MILLER presented a memorial from citizens
of New Jersey, asking that the duty foreign iron
may be restored TO what il was in 1889.
Mr. CLAY presented a memorial from great
number Of ladies of Railway, New Jersey, who he
said judging from their autographs very beautiful
indeed. These ladies, inasmuch as a further reduc-
ton of duty on foreign ready-made clothing would
render their employment unprohtable and, having no
other by which to support themselves and their
families, they earnestly and respectfully pray that
Congress will enact such laws will secure them
from foreign competition. He believed that articles Of
read -made clothing had been objects of protection
from the commencement OF the Government down TO
the present time, and that, too separate and distinct
from any system, and he hoped that he would be al
lowed to say that, whatever diversity of opinion
there may exist to the protection of the Of the
country there would be diversity of opinion what
to the protection of the ladies and he pre-
sumed that he might here rely on the chivalry of
South Corolna to rush forward and protect their fair
countrywomen from foreign competition.
Mr.. CALHOUN remarked that during the opera
ton of the tariff act Of 1928, he dned in the compa
ny Of General Patterson and gentleman from South
Carolina; and they entered into con versaton the
effects of the tariff and especially to ready made
clothing. General Patterson said that when he visi
ted Quebec, during the preceding summer, he pur-
chased suit of clothes, and his return to Phila-
dephia he ascerained that the difference in the prices
between the cities, paid the whole expense of the
trip The gentleman from South Carolina then OBJ
served that he went from Charleston to Quebec, and
while there he purchased two suits and the difference
between the Charleston price and the amount paid
betrayed the whole expense of his trip, Now, if gen
tlemen not able TO make clothes cheaper, they
not able to buy them.
Mr. CLAY remarked that he had merely made an
appeal to the heart of the Senator from South Carroll
ma, and he that twenty-five years ago, it
would not have been made in vain,
He also presented memorial from Huntington
county, Pennsyl relating To the iron interest
and this subject he recommended 10 the Senate gene
rally, but particularly to the Senators from Pennsy
vania; also, the petition OF number OF citizens of
Northern Alabama, stating that they had heard with
regret, that disposition existed in Congress TO post
pone the operation of the Bankrupt law and asserting
their belief that suspension Of this salutary just and
humane act would operate oppressively upon a
worthy class of citizens and likewise protesting and
demonstrating against It's po'tponemen or its repeal.
This petition accompanied by letter from gem
tcnan, who expressed mis- desire that the law would
be repealed athoug III he did not wish to avail him
self OF its provisions
MIR. KING inquired what was the name of the
writer of the letter.
Mr. CLAY replied, Levi Todd, who stated that the
petition expressed the general opinion upon the sub
ect in Northern Alabama, and that it was signed by
both Democrats and Wings. He was glad to hear
1t; as il showed that his Democratic friends, es-
H.. ~ l.. M l.l-
and all along that time, had come out from their
pa ~ associations in support of this law notwith-
standing they approved OF the veoes and other
measures equally obnoxious.
Mr. KING would only say that, if the Individual
who wrote the letter was not more correct when he
said that he did not want the benefit of the law than
in saying that the greater portion of the people of
Northern Alabama were in favor Of it, then he was
very much in need of ii indeed and he Mr.. King)
would venture to say that not only three-fourths OF
the people of Northern Alabama, but majority Of
the people of the entire State were opposed to this
law.
Mr. CLAY said that the petition was signed by a
hundred Wings and Democrats; and, if the Senator
would look over the names, he would find those of
some OF his Democratic friends.
Mr.. KING remarked that there was no doubt of
that, as some of them were unfortunately, bank
rupts
MIR. BUCHANAN, in presenting seven memorials
from iron manufacturers Of Pennsy lvana asking that
1899, said he thought that the Senator from Ken
lucky was unkind when he (Mr. CLAY) presented the
petition of so many ladies', and give him (NIr b.
oHANAN) the iron manufacturers and recommended
them TO his particular care.
Mr. CLAY did not feel that he had inflicted any
injury upon the Senator from Pennsylvania. lie had
recommended to him the petition of the iron manu-
acturers because they happened to be men of Penn
syvania and the reason why he had not recommend
ed the memorial of the ladies was, that the Senator
h,,l l,.,nI Ga Goo
having taken any lady under his protection
Mr.. BUCHANAN said that old as the Senator
himself was he wis ed to take all the ladies under his
protection.
He then presented memorial from Lancaster, Lee
banon county Pennsylvania, complaining ofthe Com
promise act and asking for general protection of do
nestle manufactures, also, memorial from the Ie-
palrers and dressers OF quilts asking that the du-
" may be removed from the same but retained the
finished imported article.
MIR, STU RECON presented similar memorial
MIR. CALlOU y presented the petition OF A. IL.
Abrahams praying that certain articles collected un.
der the revenue act of the session may be re-
mitted; and stating, as for making
this request of Congress, that, at the time the
articles shipped at Bremen, they were
by the laws of the United States duty free but when
they were brought into this country duty of more
than seven hundred dollars levied upon them al
the Charleston custon-house, te revenue law having
been passed during his absence, and of which he
knew nothing until ms return nome Nr. CAL
HouN remarked that many persons were similarly Ia
ken by surprise, and an act Of injustice had thereby
been committed by hasty legislation.
The memorial was referred to the Committee on
Finance.
Mr. BERRlEN presented the memorial of the Board
of Aldermen and the Chamber of Commerce of Sa-
yannah Georgia asking Congress to make an appro.
priation for the erection of new custom house in
that city
! Mr.. TALLMADGEpre presented three remonstrance.
against repeal or postponement Of the Bankrupt
law; memorial from fifty seven citizens of Cayuga
county, New York. against the admission of Texas in
to the Union; petition from citizens of the city
of New York, praying that Congress will pas.
law to authorize the construction ofdeences on the
| Gulf Of Mexico, the p tition Of two hundred and