Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1844-01-06
THE TARIFF.

The eyes of an enlightened people are fixed upon the
movements at Washington. They cannot be hooc
winked by the double faced declarations OF Mr. Clay
They demand, that the positions OF Mr. Van Burn
should be fully carried out by the present House Of r.
presentatives The South is opposed to the "princg,
as well The d,tas of the present tariff law They re-
qure it be changed to the revenue standard They
demand that the whole system should be brought back
to the Compromise Act, as soon as the revenues Of tie
Government, economically administered, will admtot
it, Let the Representatives OF The South Diff a.
they may about the mode Of accomplishing the o.
iect-whe her through a Select Committee, a ilr.
Rhett proposes, or through the Committee oil Was
and Means, Mr. Dromgocle propo,es for tie
sake Of rue-but the People demand, that il stogt
be proposed in some form or other and ultimately o.
conipl shed by The votes Of Congress-.
In conneyion with this subject, we group 'oec'as'
various articles which have before us Tho sa'
much gh, the principles Of the Tariff, aud OIL he
movements before the House:
From The .NsJilc Regi.er)
Wbippcry must not Calculate too grossly on the ~
dulitv of Southern Democrats. They SENSITIVE, I
and properly so, the subject of the Tariff; Nj
look to repeal Of the present Tariff IN "pnneI
and detail" and they expect II, too from the banl'
the majority in the present Congress. But ~
they look confidently t. be sustained by her lrIrr.
they do not intend To be taught by their eneme' Wa
Ia complin, how much 10 dis;tusi, how 10 ~
themselves The Baltimore American and orr cts
bic negh5or across the way, whose solieitude !o'
relations OF Democrats towards each other IS So -
afTeclionate and disnterssed, are STRIVING u persg
some Of u.s. that the refusing I, suspend the IE
for the admission of MIR. Rhetts resolution IS n yot
favor Of the Tariff. Why-the present Tariff cana h
continue No rejecting person supposes that 4
gress of sane men would leave Tariff in force v
produces less by many millions than the Govern +
requires for revenue. The Tariff mus, be remoGa
for revenue. II is public necessity from whrI
tectionsts and politicians cannot escape; and there's
the "contnuation of the present Tariff IS poll =
mposslhility, and we have the high authority o.
Coleman for saying
THAT what's impossible, can'ibe,
And never never, comes pass -
which is as true as if Roman Consul had SAID 1t /
No vote upon n mere question Of the order Of Dc
ness the suspeIdng OF rule, or the eplon u ~
pro- ostion for change in this matter, Of the
lar action Of the Committee Of The House, Apo III
with tins express view, can indicate p7eciN!y Wr II
mons of individuals Us 10 the proper substitute to- III
present Tariff, or the proper changes for resenGc
tainly, it cannot mean that there shall be no chang
necessity has decreed an extensive change. II wa'
of the re,ributive blunders by which cupdig II
brings It's defeat; that when the Wings tooA III
vannges Of the state Of the Treasury, - force IL
Tariff upon the country, they abused their pose II
as to impant in their favoIit- thu setos II
own destruction They made Tariff, ah'ca Is Il
protection so far lha, revenue fails, and i; cauroI
on their own ground. II
In the Senate of the I. S on the ~ b, Mr. Nc
of South Carolino, in pursuance Of notice, MTG
the following bill:
A bh TO revive tie ae: Of March ?, 1888. usually
'Compromse act" and 10 modify HE EXISTING da!'' t
reign imports in conformity 10 lis provisions. IL
Sec. !. Be By House Hsrr,i ~
Of the United States # Hatred, Congress 0Ssea5ef III
much OF the existing law imposing duties upon
provides that duties al ralorem ON GER. =
upon assumed minimum valuc, be- and 'Nt' HI
hereby repealed. and that sad duties be hereafter a
value OF such commodities. II
Sec. 9. Aad be further er0ctd, That, in nj! eaf Is
the existing duty upon any Imported commodity tr".
per centun the vauc thereof, such any shall be h'
duced TO Thirty per centlm al roio,en e
Sec 2. find b, fsrfh enacted, That, itoln and " q
day Of December next, all duties upon foreign 'mp ~ tA
reduced TO TWENTY-FIVE per cen'nm, and, nom ana a'"'
December, ls4I, 10 twenty cenium III rd'"TAt Is
This differs from Mr.. Rhe,rs proposition N ''' [S
in several remarkable particulars. Tha, lo0S" Is
immediate reduction CT duties 10 twenty pr e'
contemplated Determinations below tiat rae
venue purposes only. MIR McDute masses
ting tariff act, in it's selection of obj .cs - Be- - Nc
basis Of reduction 6xss scale OF reduction q: "a
with thirty per cent. ad valorem, AID co"'-
within one year TO twenty per cent nd va -
makes no provision os to duties now loHet W' ~
per cent F., or those which, although under u ~
cent may be protective and it leaves un'eocm II
lower rates of duty and The free articles, ~
some Of the strongest h'l is Of protection. i%
Of the fraudulent minimums and the es'as's'
true ad vaorem are great reforms. st", Ne
that mus. be done than is contemf' ~
bill, for unless Legislation touches the Tree ~
revenue under twenty per cent Guy o0
now taxed, may still be insufficient. 'o'
wants. 81
(From the .ytr York Ereriac Pes.J -
FoR WHOM WAS THE sEw TARnr ~
STANDARD, paper published at Raleigh, M
lima, in remarking upon the report OF the o. "a
The Treasury, and the proper methods o.
the slender and inadequate revenue dersII
new Tariff, makes the following very seaa''
ton 3.Ez
ssLet the free articles, the dye stuff, a III
used by the manufacturers, be taxed lnN
revenue"