The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1843-02-19

ON whence and n whose ships they are imported or tha
roduct of such contiguous countries thereto usually
AIRY on their foreign commerce through the ports
,me.
The history of this matter is this. Several or MS
re treaties oil reciprocity between the govern 49,,
AIMED in the above resolution have either .rn,rsd
.om the Committee on Commerce, made sysrv shle
eport on the whole subject, Ia copy Of which will
end you) and offered the above reso' .,,;ons That
eport speaks of the great financial .nd c"nnr,.ycioi
difficulties the country is, or wash ana ; commelc..,
peaks Of National Bank ands ;uh sG ,and
eign remedies and recomme' ID ~, al 10 P Sose
These reso; =, Snt fast as they expire
till TO-DAY when tbev fairly before the House
MessTs. Kennedy Nike IN. Cushing and %I Rrews,.p
ties both here and inT origin of the reciprocity
tween this and 8 oreis britain and particularly be-
lrased with those between e. Britain and ~. coUti
traa,;as Enpiar lie insisted that in making these
usn,ags ove1 a always contrived to gain the adj
,, an.as a,;on other governments. He referred 10
me operation of this reciprocity system betw.en
Engiano an j'us, and insisted that it was highly de-.
as,I ef q, % the commercial and navigating later
ests OF u e United States. He was anxious that The
Rouse should take and exercise the power which
II h~ TO regulate the commercial interests. and
n" leave SO much OF this important matter
ne declared that this Treaty making power seemed
lF ely to absorb every thing else; and thar we have
= ad recently instances OF that in the rumon that
rarlfi would probably hereafter be regulated by
Treaty. (Aluding TO Duff Green's rumored mis-
sion). lie insisted, that under the action of these
reciprocity treaties, the commerce and tonnage of
Great Britain, and particularly these Hanseatic
towns, Bremen, Lubec, and Hamburger had wonder
fully increased of late years, willis. that of the Uni
ted States had decreased in a similar ratio It was
true that at the present time the treaties with
England could not be touched but that the treaties
between the United States and those powers named
In the solutions were about expiring or had AREA
dy expired, and ought not to be renewed. In 1890
our exports from England were $1l 800 600; in 1910
M. In frou he Han
Towns they were only 81, 100000; in 1910 they
were 81, zoe, 600, and nearly all carried IN vessels
owned in Bremen, &c. In 1880 the whole foreign
tonnage entering our ports less than 1872 900 TONS
In lS4O it had increased to 7l2,0OO tons. In 1880
the aggregate tonnage entering all our ports from
the Hanseatlc towns, Russian, Prussian. Dutch, Da-
nsh and Swedish, was only 10, 900 tons IN 1910 it
was 6S 500 tons An Of oveY 400 per cent in
10 gears The American tonnage coming to our
ports from the above. places in 1890 was
$4,000 tons in 1910 it was only 81 600 tons
decrease against us of over 40 per cent in ten
years. This was owing to these reciprocity trea-
ties, where the reciprocity was pretty much like the
lrlshman's-a OF one side. The tonnage from the
Hanseatic towns alone i'm 1880, was only $500 tons
IN 1887, II had increased to II 600 TONS And now
they have 100 ships Ia the direct trade 10 the United
states where re ter, Ter. years ago they had not dozen
ingly in the indirect carrying trade. Bremen ship
would bring cargo of emigrants to Baltimore take
cargo o. hour thence to Venezuela, and take car
go OF coffee thence to Europe and so injure us In
the indirect trade in various ways It was owing to
these facts that he wished to ca the attention ofIhe
House and the country to the matter
Mr., McKEoN SAID, that after the elaborate opening
OF the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce
the members must be convinced that the subject
was OF vast importance TO the United States. II was
a question which not only affected the commercial
and particularly The navigating interests but also
our relations to foreign nations, on matter which
involved the highest principles. The resolutions of
sition to revolutionze well settled feeling on the
part OF this country. The reciprocity system was
emphatica!y an American system. While the Eu-
ropean nations were engaged in war, their CONNER
cial marine was anDihilated /; our ships of course
alone raversed the ocean III peace for long series
of years. After the close of the late war. we ten
dered to England, and she gladly accepted, propo-
ston 10 allow vessels to enter each other nations
ports on reciprocal terms. The consequence of this
arrangement was for series of years an immense
advantage 10 our shipping In 1922, the Committee
on Commerce, IN spirit OF llberaity, and actuated
by sound policy, reported the following resolu-
ton
Resolved. That the Government of the United States,
having uniformly avowed and declared it's attachment to
ss s ans and having
IONS and in legislative acts adhered them should be
he last to abandon them. and especially at time when
very just and enlightened nation is conforming its COM
nercial policy to an accordance with those principe
In 1928, "a law was passed authorizing the President
~ proclamation, to open our ports to all nations
which would show they were willing to place our
'essels and their own on the same footing. That
aw still stood unrepealed and unless the House
would repeal 1t, these resolutions would be useless.
The matter involved executive and legislative ac-
ion He agreed with the Chairman on Commerce,
that it should not swallow up the legislative power
II the government. The question had not been fully
examined. The chairman of the committee had
several nations, whose treaties had EXPIRED which
lad arrived in the United States indirectly but was
he able to state the Der OF American vessels
ybeh sS1rsd from the ports Of South
he ports OF the Hanseatic republics, the Prussian
orts ofth Baltic, and of the other countries whose
reatles were under consideration!
Mr. KENNEDY said he could not.
Mr. M'KEoN continucd-Without such Informs
ION how could we act! We have not both sides of
the question before us He had resolutions which he
could otier 1t the House insisted action, calling
on the State and Treasury Departments for this in.
formation. He would offer these at a proper time
Mr. Mex stated that the last returns Of the Treasury
Department showed that in the last commercial
year, SO per cent of the imports were in American
and but 20p cent in foreign vessels. He showed
also that even if the resolutions succeeded, that the
consequence would be a transfer of the vessels be-
and Mecklenberg, with which treaties were run
ming, and perhaps TO ports Of Holland. 1t would dis
turb the natural channels of trade and perhaps ex
cite the German Customs Union to retaliate upon
us by discriminating duties. Their cause and that
of the Hanse Town were indissoluble. Bremen, Ham
burgh and Lubec were their lntrepos, and it would
be as natural for them TO act together as for the
whole valley of the Mississippi which finds in New
Orleans an outlet for its produce, to resist any
wrong done to New Orleans He then went on to
show how anxious we were TO obtain free transit for
American produce across the countries bordering
on the Atlantic and Mediterranean, so as to reach
he millions in Prussia and Austria, and referred to
our treaty with Sardinia and Tuscany, in which
hat was agreed upon. Were we anxious now TO
eyerse that principal by turning against the Hanse
Towns He hoped the House would let the subject
leep for The present. 1t little understood and
ny interference might result in dsaster The best
smedy for the shipping interest was to reduce the
uies on articles used in ship brildlng, and then we
,ud compete with any nation Give the mer-
rants the warehouse bill; would give ships en-
oyment. He hoped that the democratic principle,
hlch he invoked, Of equal and exact Justice to all
atoms, would not be abandoned by an American
ongress. He trusted that the House would adhere
fh..d ocfrin nunu cd In The IL