The Whig standard. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1843-1844, 1844-06-01
TWENTY. EIGHTH CONGRESS-.
FRIDAY, MAY 81, 1874.
SENATE
FIRST SESSION.

FRIDAY. MAY 81, 1914.
SENATE.
Mr.. BENTON presented petition from SONS
individual, asking compensation for provisione
furnished to some western caravan.
Mr.. SEWER: the petition of Mary Ann Nor
ris, for pension.
Mr.. ATCHISON: memorial from Missouri,
in favor of Texas junction.
Mr.. PEARCE a memorial purport not heard
ADJOURNMENT OF CONGRESS.
Mr.. PHELPS called up the joint resolution,
fixing the l7lh of June as the day for the rising
OF Congress; and the same was passed, mem. con-
The following resolutions and bills were passed:
Concerning the copper rock of Lake Superior;
For the relief of VIM. Brown;
For the relief of Benjamin Adams & Co, and
others.
Mr.. MOREHEAD called up the House bill
for the Improvement of western harbors, reported
without amendment from the Committee on Com
merce.
A discussion ensued upon the appropriation for
the harbor at Buffalo. MIR. EVANS said the
War Department were pretty well satisfied that
instead of improving the present harbor by WIDEN
ing the creek, it was better to commence new
harbor at another point
Messrs. WOODBRIDGE and WRIGHT were
satisfied with the bill it was, but. without final
action it was laid aside, and the Senate resumed
the unfinished business of yesterday-the tariff
debate.
Mr.. McDUFFIE continued his remarks, and
promised to show that the so-called revenue tariff
of 1912 was more protective and prohibitory than
any ever passed by this country. not excepting
that of 80, which South Carolina nullifed, and
for the the exercise of which act of sovereignty
she had ever deserved glory
In the course of his remarks, Mr. Med. devel-
oped new scheme of notification, which was to
be effected by an act of the South Carolina Lee
gslature levying duty on domestic goods equal
to that on the foreign artisle Of the same quality.
He concluded by expressing his solemn
viction that this Government was rapidly sinking
in corruption-that while money was wrongfully
raised, it would be wastefully expended-that
nothing could arrest this downward tendency but
the repeal of the nqutous protective system.
Mr.. CHOATE replied, reiteratng the argu-
ments by which he had traced the origin of the
protective system to the act of 80, and declining
to measure swords with Mr.. Med. in the wit Of
the race course and the cockpit. He complained
of Mr.. Med. g discourtesy in the debate.
Mr.. McDUFFIE rejoined, and characterized
Mr.. C.'s bearing in discussion as arrogant and
assuming. He accused him in argument of the
suppressio peri, and the suggestio talsi-had no
respect for his understanding &C., and concluded
by affirming that maxim Of his life had invaria-
bly, been memo me impune lacessit, and that he
would always return as good as he got.
Mr.. CHOATE acknowledgements to the
Senate that he had been decorous in discussion,
and said that neither his dignity nor his respect
for the Senate allowed him to reply to the charges
of the Senator.
Mr.. BAGBY made few remarks.
Mr.. EVANS brought up the rear; and hoped
the Senator from South Carolina would now be
satisfied to let the vote be taken upon this SUBJ
ject-a subject which had occupied the attention
Of the Senate, more or less, for five months. The
Senator had been INDUCED upon every occasion
that he desired in taking it up, notwithstanding
large majority Of the members were decidedly
of opinion that in its present shape, the discus
sion was out of place and order. He had hoped
that the action of the House, and the sentiment
of the country, would have tended to change, or
modify somewhat, the opinion Of the Senator from
South Carolina upon the Tariff, but if he was
satisfied with what had passed-if he felt that he
had broken down the entertainments Of his adver-
saries, and scattered them in flight, why then let
the vote be taken.
The question was upon the resolution of the
Committee on Finance declaring the want of
jurisdiction of the Senate over the bill, and that,
therefore, it should be Indefinitely postponed.
Mr.. CRITTENDEN and others desired d.
rect vote on the bill itself, and some conversation
followed as to how this could be DONE
n Mr. ALLEN moved an amendment, IN order to
get rid of the difficulty, which asserted that "the
present rate of duties unjust and oppressive,
and ought to be reduced"
Upon this vote was taken, which was party
one, with the exception Of the Pennsylvania SEN
ators, Messrs. Buchanan and Sturgeon, who voted
with the Wings. The vote was then taken on
the resolution declaring that by the Constitution
the Senate had no right to originate such bill
as Mr. Mods, and the same was passed by 33
to A the four negative votes being Messrs. Hay
wood, Huger McDufe, and Woodbury..
The bill was then indefinitely postponed, and
The Senate adjourned
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,.
MIR. ADAMS asked leave to present memo
rial from citizens of the United States, who de-