The spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1840-1844, 1842-04-08

Vi eitner OF the former ten years.
lie Lao' also, sought lhe inporlatlons Tor tht
year 1889 and le4o' from the tables Of the com
ne&e ana Navigation OF inc country as Inc table
irom whlcn ne hau urawn 'he o.ner results did moi
extend 10 nose years. Inc lao'es OIL commerce
ana Navigation 40 not give ,he re'eNPor'atohs, SO
'hai nc cou'u oh'y present lNe gross imp".'alloh'
OF inc TWO last named years lhey were gwen as
'oho"s'
Value of Imports
For the year 1889 $l62 ,092 1872 0O
Do do,ls4O lO7,lll $40 OO
Here would be seen a falling off of imporatons
between 1889 and 1910 of almost ffty-hve millions
OF dollars, and the examinations OF the several ears
in the whole series of the thirty-two years men
toned, would show great fluctuations. The amount
of importations for consumption in 1886, was one
hundred and siyty-eght millions, while the same
amount for 1888, was but one hundred and one
| millions.
The honorable mover of the resolutions. from
the calculations he has presented, arrives at the
conclusion that the imporalons for future years
will average but ninety millions, and those cal
culalOrs, he tells us, are based not upon the n-
ports but the exports. lie may be near the truth
MIR w. had not made and could not make pros,
pectve calculations, any farther Than safe concu
slOns could be drawn from the facts OF the past
Those he had given. The tables of commerce and
navigation for 1871, were not yet made up, but
the impor'ations of that year would probably sink
sp neow lnose E' io4o' perhaps as ~" Us
VI. Tena.ol es'ln'"'e vi n'he'y-ohG n''i.ons'
was sac, however 10 make Tue cus'oess VI
io4' 'ne neSIs ior ,''e arrangement D, pe'a,a-
"on' 'a'ni " uu,,os ""s II ""' nne' .'"' Wv
P'esen' PERIOD o, depression hau ,earneu w. ..,'"
~ '""' yea, ie "'Peu n"u' INC "'pp p
''o"s VI io4A 'his'' We rs 'o"' possibly 'Non INV
ell ~, e'en's were no" transporting ~ 'he o'"'es'
as wen as mere, Wl'lch cCuh not lul' TO nave
most po"er'ui 'hhucnce' 'a'or"oie o, un'avo''po'
upon .ne business o' "''s yea,' et ms impressed
w"s' u'a' a.'e' ',is !ear' AZ 'no '"is"e, ,"
VI o"'neSs MI"'' ne eNP''"noo'' "os :" ,a,
aone VI sou"u Iesls"'No po.y' "s","s. '"soa"1
fo"o{ ""u measures '' 'es's'a'o" ''"'' VI ''"-
''ona'. ,,,,. -
40 was PoSS'o'e 10, "''" ~ 50! "'at '.'' w.
Nv per cent upon our ''1pnisa''o.s' auu'I u" ',e
lanu revenue, wo"o pe sul'I'e"' ~ 'neo' VIE ""''s
o, 'ne Puo.lc treasury, ou' ne co"lu say 'n"t' ~
HIS es''a',oh' t,'' revenue s"oe'u NC U'ousn' o'o"
ana appIied 10 me expenses OF 'he noNe'h''eh''
before iur'hI loans we're made or lur.her laHes
imposed Apply lhe revenues we nave AZ our com
mana TO Ill our empty treasury, ana 'heh ne
Would cneef'uily nhl'c WIN the gen''heh uPo" ''e
other SIDE 10 vote such taxes as shou'u pe neces-
sasy 10 meet 'he expenses OF ah ecohoh',ca au'nn-
's,'u"on' ou' WINE 'ne n'a]orny were u'sPoseS W
a.s ~. y N-'..'..|y
Their loans or taxes Entertaining such impressions,
he had proposed TO amend this resolution SO mat
1t should read as follows;
Resolved, therefore, lhat so mnch OF me act
entitled, An nc, to appropriate the proceeds OF
the sales OF the public lands, and to grant pre-ep-
ton rights approved on the fourth day OF sep
tcmber, eighteen hundred and loriy-o as appro'
PIRATES those proceeds TO the States and lenro-
ries, and to the District of Columbia, ought to be
repealed, because it ID now apparent that this
portion of the public revenue cannot be taken from
The national Treasury without creating the instant
necessity for increasing loans, or additional taxa
ton, or both, 10 an amount sufficient to supply
the deficiency thus produced"
In his opening remarks, addressed to the Sen
ate yesterday, the honorable Senator from Ken
lucky (Mr Clay) said prudent and careful fat
mer always staked out his land before he sent his
teams on to commence with the plough, and that
these resolutions were TO be his stakes The fourth
resolution OF the series read as follows:
H. Resolved Ihat III inc adjustment " TAR
III 10 raise an amount Of tweh'y-sN n'lions OF reVe-
nue., Inc principles OF Inc compromise act general
y should be adhered to; and that, especially, n
shed, from which there ought TO be as little de-
paltnre as possible.
Now, the honorable gentleman must pardon him
for the remark, that il would be very difficult to
plough BY the stakes set by this resolution. In the
first place, the princples of the Compromise act
were to be adhered to generally" This was
very well oritselr, but then the condition was an
neyed that twen,y-siy millions of revenue mus, be
raised from impos,s alone, to do which might over
turn the principle. of the COMPROMISE act general
". In the second Mace. n "max,mum rate of ad
vaorem duties was TO be established, but no rate
was PROMISED. no stake was stuck. And in the
third plnce. when this maximum should be es,ab-
lished. ,hare WINS TO be as little departure from
as possible, What could be more particular
Than This resolution, What more entirely vague;
And how was il possblc for the honorable mover
10 sunnose that the massage of il BY the Senate
couH aid us in lepi,latinr upon this important sub
loci, whom ,be Uopse Of Representntiyes should
nleose IN send ma tho necessary hills Iromended
as no Ind nronosrd ,he resolution wonld read as
Cnllow..
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