The Woodstock age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1844-1845, 1844-10-17

lound prepared to my hand.
On the passage of the present tariff bill
in the House of Representatives, Angus
, 22d. 1914, the vote stood,
!, For the bill, I0l
: Against the bill, IOl
The Speaker announced the vote as
bove and roted hims'T IN the Negative.
so the bill was rejected by THAT VOTE.
Thirty nine 'vhigs voting the Bill; q
mong whom were Mr. Adams, Mr. Bolt
and several of Mr. Clay's Kentucky viii!
friends
Besides thes wings who voted ayains
the Bill, there were absent wings who die
not vote Sirteen-making IN all Nly-fr
viii gs who did not vote for the Bill,
Alter the above vote, Reconsideration
was carried, and second trial had, whel
it appeard the vote stood,
Ayes 1913, Nays IO2.
"hereupon Mr. Clay's Kentucky Wing
Speaker, MIR White, ogain rot,d No, max
ing tie vote, and thus defeating the Bill
second time. At this jnncture, tw,
wing members who had dodged the vote
now voted for the bill, and thus it was
carried
During all this time, twenly-one DEM
ocralc members voted steadily for the bill
though several ofils details were not a.
greeable to them.
On the las, vote, another o! Mr. Claws
ken,uckey Wing friends, Mr. Sprlgg, w.
ted agalns the bill, making out of ellrfn
wing members from that state, GgM who
voted against the Bill.
So much for the passage OF the 'whig-
tariff through the wing House Of Reprcsn-
tallves, end now we intend to show from
the same source, how it got through n
Wing Senate. Our readers should bear il
in mlnd also, that Mr. Adams aud other
wings had for more than two months as
serted that the country was without any
tariff, and that there existed no legal right
to collect one cent OF duties on any article
imported
The Bill after it had escaped from the
House by the skin Of its teeth, came up
in the Senate for a. final vote con the 9th
August, 1912, and the vote stood,
Yeas "a, Nays 23-one majority,
FOm democrats voting for it, and nine
wings against it Mr. Clayton of Delaware
among them.
Before The vote was taken, Mr. White
the wing Senator from Indiana, said:
without the votes Of the opposition
Congress mOuld hare to adjoun wthout
giring any rertnne 10 the gorunment.' -
For this aid he thanked them.
Mr. Moorhead said, he congratulated
the Senators from Pennsylvania and
New York in having come forward to res
cue the country and the government in
their need
This bill thus opposed by wings and
passed against their votes and wishes, have
Mr. Clay and his friends now seized upon
as their only hope-,heir last plank ON
which he is to float into the Presidency.
The sincerity 9th present enthusiastic
regard of Mr. Clay aud his party for the
present tariff, and their painful anxiety for
its safety, may well be questioned, when
we rellec, upon the rude treatment it re-
ceived from them at its birth, and the cold.
ness with which they looked upon it in lis
infancy. To meet it is apparcn, that their
recent and present friendship is more from
party political calculation than from any
thing national or patriotic. In 1910 they
declared that the country never could or
would prosper unless it was under Il Wing
adminlstralion-they went for change
and promised thousand blessings upon
every body and every interest, 1.-THE people
would place the Government in their hands.
The people in an evil hour did so, but i,
was The will ofProvidencc that they should
no, be allowed to hold that power long.
They failed. as they say themselves, TO
carry out their plans; and yet time went
on. and the country became prosperous
without Wing administration or Wing
measures.
This fnlsifed all their assertions in 1910.
It the country could prosper without
Wing administration, or without the con.
sumation Of Wing measures, what could
they say in 1914 to induce the people a.
gain to cn,rust them with power' In this
dilemma they looked over all they had
done, or tried to do, during the brief peri
cd of their poll iicaI life, and among it all
there was nothing that they dared to seize
upon but the Tariff act The country was
prosperous, and the currency and the ey-
changes, sound wilou,a Bank-lh they dare
not, therefore place the issue upon the
Bank. They had lalsied all their promis-
es of rc,renchment aud reform, and pro.
scribing prescription, and every thing else;
they therefore dare not place the issue
upon any or all ofihem. VIVA, could they
do but seize upon the Tariff! And little
as is their hold upon it. or their right 10
claim it as their own, it is all the political
capital they have-all they dare turn to of
all the many acts proposed or performed
during their two years administration
in Congress. who can blame them. for
taking such death grasp at this last plank
left them to stand nponl
Whether the present prosperity of the
country is solely or mainly attributable
to the present tariff act, is question too
new tn be fully settled. If it is meant by