The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-11-22
In the New York market, the prices for lsd5 are
quoted in the prices current as follows;

cts. cts.
American-Saxony, per To-. ..............36 to 50
American and blood merino. .........33 80
American native blood merino. ........H *
The tables above establish the fact, that the
prices Of the higher grades Of wool are as high IN
Europe they in this country; ranging in 1886
from 60 to so cents per pound in this country and
in London from 80 cents to 81 30. They are at
the present time higher, is abundantly proved by
the fact, that during The present several emgoes
Of fine ~ool hare been exported from this country 10
England. | have before me several paragraphs
which | have taken from newspapers during the
present season, proving this fact; one of which
copy from the New York Journal of Commerce:
"EsroRr.r,oS weor.-There have been shipments q
there further orders in market The reason OF these
shipments is that wool nowhere else DO fought SO
this country This is the high price which was
promised the farmers the effect Of the arn and to re-
them for paying double price foy manufactured goods
Henceorth American woods to lie the cheapest IN the
world, and our exports increase rapidly from year to
year until they value which can now fore
its present range The days OF dollar pound have passed
away, to return Nothing keeps the price o. wool
where IL Is and certainly nothing Will prevent from
falling to half its present rates hut the policy OF England
which admits It duty free
Thus is the fact inconrovertbly established, thai
the fpoegro,per Of this country derires no protection
from The tariff system.
| The duty upon wool is mere h,'nlbug duty
like the duties upon corn, wheat, potatoes, &c,
&C.. delude the farmer into the support Of sys-
tenn which flches his pockets while il pretends to
| fill them.
The trainers of the present tariff knew that the
manufacturers Of this country would not import the
dearer qualities Of WOOL because they were higher
in other countries than in this, and because this
country produced an ample supply of those quail
iies and therefore, order to carry out the system
of humbuggery in respect to the farmer, they i'm
posed higher duty on those qualities Of wool which
the manufacturers do not want, ,chile they let in The
cheaper kinds, ,chich the manufacturers do rant ana
,rhica dsplace so much .aaericn roooi al The paL1
duty cfh,ee and ha!f mills per pound.
To show that the wing trainers Of the present tariff
were determined 10 protect The manufacture, al me err
pense ofits farmer, will recur few of the votes
taken in the Senate, while the subject under
going discussion in that body, in the session OF
l84I-42. While the bill was pending in the Sen.
ate, Mr.. Preston of South Carolina moved to Strike
out the duty Of fire per cent cheap acoois, and insert
TWENTY PER CENT. The vote upon the PROPOSE
ton was taken by yeas and nays, and resulted as
| follows:
YEAs-Messrs. Allen, Benton, Fulton, King Linn,
McRober,s, Phelps, Preston, Sewer, Smith Of Con-
necticu, Tappan, Wilcox, Williams, Woodbury.,
Wright, and Young-l7.
NAYs-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Bates, Bayard,
Choa,e Clayton, Conrad, Crafts, Crittenden, Day
ton, Evans, Graham, Huntington, Kerr, Mangun,,
Merrick, Morehead, Porter, Simmons, Smith of
Indiana, Sprague, Talmadge, White, and Wood
bridge--27 See Senate Journal, 1912, p. 53I.
The senators who voted in favor of the increase Of
duty on ,pooi, were all democrats except Messrs
Phelps and Preston while all those voting against
it were wings.
Afterwards, on the same clause Of the bill, Col
Benton moved to strike out "sepsn and insert fire.
The effect Of this amendment, if adopted, would
have been to impose duty Of 30 per cent. ad valo
rem, and three cents specific, on all wool imported
into the country costing over fire cents instead o
seven. As but little if any wool can be obtained fol-
less than five cents per pound, the effect Of the
amendment would have been to impose the highe.'
duty, viz: 80 per cent. and three cents, on all kinds
Of ,cool imported into the country On that propo-
sition the vote was as follows, viz:
1EAs--Messrs. Alief, Benton, buchanan, Ming,
Linn, McRoberis, Preston, Smith of Connecticut
Sturgeon, Tnppan, Wilcox, Williams Woodbury.
Wright, and Young-l5.
NAys.-Messrs. Bagby, Barrow, Bates, Bayard
Calhoun, Choate Clayton, Conrad, Crafts, Dayton
Evans, Graham, Huntington, Kerr, Mangum, Mer-
rick, Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Simmons
Sprague, Talmadge, Walker, White, and Wood
bridge-26 tSes Senate Journal, 1912, p. 531.
All the senators voting in the Affirmative except
Mr.. Preston democrats; and all those voting in
the negative, except Messrs Bagby, Calhoun, and
Walker nre wings. But this is not all. During the
first session Of the last Congress, the whig member,
| of the House Of Representatives voted against Gen
McKay's bill, which raised the duty on cheap wool.
from fire to fifteen per cent. And further: when tina
bill in Committee of the Whole on the state o
| the Union, they poied against motion TO raise Ma
item ofihs bill from Is to 25 per cent
| For the purpose of further testing the proEsse,
friendship of the wing trainers of the present iarif
for the farmer, Mr. Tappan, of Ohio, offered tn
following amendment to the bill then pending bef;r
| the Senate, viz:
the United States shall receive satisfactory evidence tina
the gram -four aud aited prorsions, exported from TIN
|
States are admitted free IF duty into the ports Of an
European state or kingdom, he shall make proclamaiio
to the people OF the United staes and thercupo
after the expiration three from tho date Of sue
proclamation the duties imposed by this upon all art
Giles the growth and manufacture Of such kingdom
so odmng such grain -four, and sailed pyo,Isions Re-
duty SO far the exceed 90 per cent ad valorem
shall henceorth be chargeabc with duty Of per
| ad yaorem, and no more.n
! This amendment proposed to all foreign nation
that would admit these important agricultural prod
ucts duty free, TO admit into this country their pro
duciions under duty of 20 per cent. The PROPOSE
ton 'oas intended for the benefit the american farmer
and it secured to the American government the bes
end of the bargain by 20 per cent. Yet, the ,ehi
majority in the Senate poied il dorm.
The following is the vote upon the amendment o
Mr. Tappan, after il was so modified as to embrace
"unmanufactured tobacco viz: