The Arkansas banner., 1844-07-17
Prom lie Hashingion Spectator.


 concluded between the Zoll Verein States of Germany, and the United States, made by Mr.. CHoATE to the Senate only three days before the adjournment of Congress. The treaty was kept by the whig majority for months on the table; and just before Congress Is to rise, when 1t is too late to debate 1t, wretched sophistical report upon it is made to the Sem ate; and then, without removing the njunc- ton Of seefesy on the treaty, so that il may be published to the world, to meet the misrcp- resentations of 1t the report contains, it is laid on the table. Laying 1t on the table IS vir~ tually rejecting it; for, long before Congress can meet again, the period for it's ratification will have transpired; but fl t had been directly rejected, the treaty could then have been pub lished to the world. To keep from publi- cation-to prevent discussion which might disclose its true merits-and to have it known only through partial ands sephistiealreport-- was-the policy 10 be pursued; and this was obtained by report three days before Con- gress rose, and laying 1t on the table.
 But as partial as the report is, we will take itup, and show that every position it assumes is false. We will show that its constitutional objection, on which it recommends the treaty 10 be rejected, is without foundation-that so far from < the control of trade and the frnc- ton Of taxing belonging, without abridgement or participation, to Congress;7 and being the " unmarried practice, eyidencing the aaiverSal belief of all, in all periods, and of aH parties and opinions the contrary of these opinions is true. Both in theory and practice has the government been uniformly adminis- tered on directly the contrary principles And that in stating that the < stipulated con sessions of the foreign contracting power" are in no degree equivalent :. to the conside- rations by which we obtain themo-the report betrays the most lamentable ignorance. ln- deed, to any one who knows the true reasons for the rejection of this treaty, it will not be at all surprising that the report should be lallaeious on these points. These are mere pretexts. The true reason fof rejecting the treaty, Is not in the constitution, or the prac- tice of the government, or the terms of the treaty. It IS i'll the danger they see in such treaties to the manufacturing interests, AL though nine-tenths of the articles stipulated in the treaty to be received from Germany, in exchange for the tobacco, rice, and cotton of the south, are not manufactured at all in the United States, yet the power, or tko prac- tice, of arranging by treaties the reciprocal duties to be imposed between the United States and other nations, they deem dangerous to their monopoly. In order that they may gull the tobacco planters of Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri, they have been talking about the injustice and oppression offoreign nations los thaab8urdity of admitting their goods without corresponding duties. They were for free trade, if reciprocal; that they were opposed to a one-sided free trade. Well, now, fair, strong move, altogether in our favor, as can be most clearly demonstrated, is made by a great nation, having some thirty-fve millions of consumers. Immediately they attempt to hide up the treaty. They misrepresentit it by a one-sided, partial report They talk of the constitution, and the untainess in its equiva- Tents, which they will not expose. This is just the policy we might expect from 8 set of venal, low-minded, huckstering, manufactur- ing, politicians. The government, in their eyes, Is nothing but corrupt instrument for plunderng and making money; and with such principles, what other policy IS to be expected than that they have pursued We will resume this subject.
 REPORT ON THE ZOLL VEREIN TREATY. The Committee on Foreign Relations, to
 whom was referred the message of the Pres
 ident of the United States, Transmitting a
 commercial convention between the United
 States and Prussia, and the other States of
 the Germanic Confederation of Customs
 and Commerce, and to whom was referred
 the said convention, report:
 That the Senate ought not to advise and consent to the ratification of the convention aforesaid
 In submitting this report, the committee do not think 1t necessary to say any thing on the general object sought to be accomplished by the convention, o in the details of the actual arrangement; nor to attempt to deter mine, by the weight and measure of the re- ciprocai concessions, which government, if either, has the best of the transaction. These subjects have not escaped their notice but they propose to confine themselves to very brief exhibition of another and single ground, upon which, without relerence 10 the par tieular merits of the treaty, they advise against its ratification.
 The committee, then, are not prepared to sanction so large an innovation upon ancient and uniform practice, in respect of the de- part1neaR of gorernmem by which duties on imports shall be imposed. The convention which has been submitted to the Senate, changes duties which have been laid by law. Il exchanges them either CD directo, and by it's own yigor, or it engages the faith of the nation and the faith of the Legislature, through which the nation acts, to make the change. In either aspect, it is the President and the Senate who, by the instrumentality of nogo- tiation, repeal or materially vary regulations of commerce and laws of revenue, which Congress had ordained. More than this; the Executive department, by the same instru- mentality of negotiation, places it beyond the power of Congress to exceed the stipulated marmpHi of inpost duties, for at least three years, whatever exigency may intervene to require il.
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