The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1842-03-08
TMemtp=Sebemth Congress.
SECOND SESSION.
IN SENATE,

of New Hampshire a Senator of the United States in
the place Of c the Hon E P,Enes a resigned %
in the Senate.
MIR. YOUNG presented the petition of l.. r. Har-
rson 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 of schools
in said township which they represent 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 thir
ty per cent
Mr.. MILLER presented a memorial from citizens
of New Jersey, asking that the duty on foreign iron
may be restored to what it was in 1889.
MIR. CLAY presented memorial from great
number of ladies of Railway, New Jersey, who, he
said judging from their autographs, were very beautiful
indeed. These ladies', inasmuch further reduc-
ton of duty foreign ready-made clothing would
render their employment Improbable, and, having no
other means by which to support themselves and their
families, they earnestly and respectfully pray that
Congress will enact such laws as will secure them
from foreign competition. He believed that articles of
ready-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.
MIR. 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 conversation the
effects of the tariff, and especially to ready made
clothing General Patterson said that when he visi
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chased suit of clothes, and, his return to Phia-
delpha he ascertaned that the difference in the prices
between the two cities, paid the whole expense Of the
trip. The gentleman from South Carolina then OBJ
served that he vent 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 rp Now if gen.
tlemen were 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 was sure that twenty five years ago. it
would not have been made in vain.
He also presented memorial from Huntington
county, Pennsylvani relating TO the iron interest
and this subject he recon nended to the Senate gene
rally, but particularly to the Senators from Pennsyl
vana 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 sautary, just and
humane act would operate oppressIvey upon a
worthy class of Citizens and likewise protesting and
demonstrating against its postponeraent its repeal
This petition was accompanied by letter from gen.
tleman who expressed his desire that The law would
not be repealed, although he did not wish to avail him
| self of its provisions.
| Mr.. 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
ject in Northern Alabama, and that it signed by
both Democrats and Wings. He was glad to hear
1t as it showed that his Democratic friends, es-
peciay his Democratic friends of '93 and the war,
and all along that time, had come out from their
paty associations in support of this law notwith-
standing they approved of the vetoes and other
measures equally obnoxious.
MIR. 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 il indeed and he (Mr. King)
would venture to say that not only threefourths of
the people of Northern Alabama, but a majority of
the people of the entire State were opposed to this
law
MIR. 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.
Mr. BUCHANAN, in presenting seven memorials
from iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania, asking that
the duty may be restored to what it was i'm
1889, said he thought that the Senator from Ken |
lucky unkind, when he (Mr CLAY presented the
petition of SO many ladies, and give him MR. b.
cHANAN) the iron manufacturers and recommended |
them to h.s particular care.
Mr. CLAY did not feel that he had inflicted any |
injury upon the Senator from Pennsylvania He had |
recommended to him the petition of the iron manu-
facturers because they happened to be of Penn
syvania and the reason why he had not recommend
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had lived for ffty-fve years, and upwards without
having taken any lady under his protection.
Mr.. BUCHANAN said that, old the Senator
himself was he wished to take all the ladies under his
protection
He then presented a memorial from Lancaster Lee
banon county, Pennsylvania, complaining of the Com
promise act and asking for general protection of do
nestle manufactures, also, memorial from the re-
parers and dressers of guils asking that the du
ty may be removed from the same but retained on the
finished imported article.
Mr.. STURGEON presented similar memorial
Mr.. CALHOUN presented the petition of A. II.
Abrahams, praying that certain articles collected un
der the revenue act OF the extra session may be re-
mitted; and stating, as for making
this request of Congress- that at the time the
articles were 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 at
the Charleston custOm-house the revenue law having
been passed during his ABSENCE and of which he
knew nothing until his return home. MIR. CAL
HouN remarked that many persons were similarly ia
ken by SURPRISE and act of injustice had thereby
been committed by hasty legislation.
The memorial was referred to the Committee on
Finance
MIR. BERRIEN presented the memorial of the Board
of Aldermen and the Chamber of Commerce of Sa-
vannah, Georgia, asking Congress to make an appro-
priaton for the erection of new custom house in
that city.
Mr. TALLMADGE presented three remonstrances
against repeal or postponement of the Bankrupt
law; memorial from fifty seven citizens of Cayuga
county, New York, against the admission of Texas in