Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1844-04-27

try and njure the importing merchants but il could
be with bill reducing the rates OF duty Let him TAX
two separate articles by way of illustration; take the impor
taon Of piece goods Of any As he had already said
owing diminusn Of prices in foreign markets. arg
orders had already been given the goods would come
certainly before the Let September, perhaps before the U.s.
Jolly They received and stored and the bill goes into
operation What would be the consequence These foreign
manufacturers, through their agents. send out impoaons
Of these goods TO in under the diminished rates duty
and destroy entirely any living profit and any thing except
downright loss the imporaons by the American iner
chants L .s|..
Let them take another case, that Of pepper SPICE
which had relation to the question Of protection but
purely question OF He knew the fact that very
large importation Of pepper and other spices had been made
to the port OF Boston and other under the law OF 1912
The very instant this bill passed. which struck down the
duties these articles not less than 100 cent, (Which
purely duties, these articles would become
utterly unsaleable. There not merchant who would
sell another pound Of them until this question finally
settled and in this bill became law, large quantities
would be imported under the reduced duties and the prior
mpoaons would become utterly unsaeabe except ruin
Gus losses
Mr. OWEN said that the which this bill was intended
modify had been called for raising and its
and in ia Necessary results i sas as sst y: effect
continue that legal machinery which pertained 10
system ancient other countries, though this and
whose leading principle that necessarily
evil but good the country which paid them and that the
manufacturing skill and commercial enterprise of nation
best fosered by taxation In the days Of the Boston
favor the Committee Of Ways and Means dssented from it.
and therefore they he'd framed bill whose operation would
gradually bring back the country principles
such as prevailed in the days Of w ashington.
Mr.. HUDSON here to order, and inquired whether
in order 60 into the Of the bill the pending
amendment.
The CHAIRMAN suggested that he presumed there
could be desire 60 long debate the question OF
time and all difficulty would be obvated by permitting the
question TO be taken
General assent being given
The question taken first the amendment Of Mr..
McKAr TO the amendment Of Mr. G. J. IseERsoLL) to
substitute the first day of July for the first of January
aud the vote siood Ayes 49, noes 95
So the amendment to the amendment rejected
MI. STEWART ,yof Penn. moved to amend the amend
ment by inserting the first day Of January 1916.
The vote stood Ayes 20, noes 10.
So the amendment to the amendment rejected
Mr.. STEWART then moved amend the amendment
by inserting the first day Of January ls47 but CATER
desulory conversaon) Withdrew the motion.
The question then required and taken the amend
of Mr. q. ]. ISsERsoLL, o insert the first day Of Jan
uary next and the vote stood Ayes "A, noes rs.
So the amendment rejected ,
Whereupon Mr. SEYMOUR, of New York, moved TO amend
the first section Of the bill by raising the duty on all coarse
unmsnuac,ured WOOL the value whereof the last port
place whence exported to the United States shall be
under per pound, from fifteen per cent ad vaorem
Gas provided in the billy to thirty per cent
Mr. OWEN then proceeded III regular speech upon the
general merits of the BILL which he condemned the present
tariff as niquitous and unpoitic.
He followed the side Of the question, by Mr..
WRIGHT Of indiana who had concluded his speech,
when he yielded for the rising Of The committee
which motion prevailed, aud the House adjourned.