Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-12-19
From The National Mtelligcnccr.
THE TARIFF.
HOUSE or REPRESENTATIVES,. Dec. IL. 1Si5
To the Hon. Robert J. WALKER.
SccretdrU Ofthe Tredsu,-y:

10 ihe hon. ROBERT J. WALKER,
secretary ofthe Treasury
SIR: am assailed in the official ofthis morn
Ing, on account OF the remarks made day be-
lore yesterday in dApltc on the Message and
your Report on the Finances.
Thcarticie purports to b. editorial, but. from
the manner III which it speaks OF your motives
and intentions, ! infer that ii has cmanated
from you, and therefore feel called upon to
notice it.
This article afirns that '.itn:vcr entered in
to the conception either of the President or
secretary TO recommend excuses" Now. |
3 know not, nor can the official know, what
entered INTO your conception; but know il is
your report, and no language can make il Mai
her than 1t Is. Here are your own words, as
quoted at the time:
In accordance with these principles. it is
believed that the largest practicable portion
oil the aggregate revenue should b. raised by
maximum revenue duties upon luxuries. whc-
ther grown, produced, or manutactur at home
or abroad.
Thus the same duty is proposed to be levied
on tte articles Indicated, "whethergrown pro-
duced, or manufactured at home or abroad"
In reply, II Is said that IA duty is not am
excise, aud, therefore, thu Secretary did not re-.
commend an excise. This is disputinr about
words; but take il that duty nyIcd ON
manufactures made abroad is an impost and
mat duty levied on manufactures made at
home" is an exCisa. So that a duty may he
excise. But the nanc--the word cxcis;-it
seems is objectionable You NAV chance The
name, but this will not change the Thing
The recommendation is to levy a duty on
luxunts, whether grown, produced, or manu-
iactured at home or abroad" No ingenuity
can explain this away and the only escape is
10 Withdraw or modify it," Yet my calling
inns IAN excise" is pronounced 10 be am ..eorp-
gious Misrepresentation" Now. ifthere be a
Misrepresentation III the case submit who i.
guilty OF il
As IN the case Of the l23 per cent. revenue
standard recommended in your circular ,yl,icI,
when exposed the official said the Secretary
had copied verbatim from AN old circnl,r e
1872; so, IN this case, the Secretary NAV H., o.,
copied this suggestion from Mr. McDuC,i...
letter, so highly eulogized i'm the official IN
winch ne recommends the adoption of This yery
Iulo To levy the same duties ON domestic al
foreign goods. This. Mr.. NJ, Danie. bo,veyor
says Is great concession 90 the monuC,c.
lures; Tor, III strict justice he thinks the whole
Vi ine uuues should be taken of the foreign
ana put on the American manuiacturcr ~
did not 60 this length, bat confined il to Inx.
uries. '"N-
Numerous ether misstatcmenfs" arc srol,-
en- OF. Why are they not pointed OUT What
are they! Here are my statemeuts-are s,,,
oil them untruef rc-aiiirm Item. and chai
lenge contradiction. ! said that the Sscrot,,y
had pronounced the protective policy tn be ma,
constitutional. against the authority of \VasL
ington, Jefferson, Madison. Monroe. and I,cL
son. who oil, over snd over again. a,soricJ fine
power and recommended It's exercise by Cor.
gress Tor the protection of American mso,,lsc.
lures. is this a misTeprc
when the popular voice shall be hoard !,
tones OF thunder, dcnOunoinp This noe, ,,,J
pDheard OF doctrine, shall we be tbcn ,ol,l d.,
tlis too never entered into the contention .,
ihe President or ScCretsry7" -
sad that the Secretary had denounced .1,o
tarin % 1917 as "too unjust and uneop,I ,Co
eIorbitant and oppressive. too clead, 4, con.
nict with the fundamental priusiplcs of tbo
Constitution. Is This ini,rpprrsapf,t;l.,5
said the Secretary had asserted II o.aI l,,.
own words that 'cxperirncc proved H,t. b.
Hencrdi rule, twenty per cent ud yalora,o
VIII yield the largest revenue Npcriauc,
proves ihls' docs ", when the f8ct is notoriou,
lhai IN lot< l'h'onIy time wei bad any cxpcri.
cnoe OF Ia - per cent. ad ,dlureiu dat, q, tl. 80
venue vas not h8f what If has sia,y, -,
and Is now under lie protective ta6G ,f $50.
j. ibis al "egUgiOus mistaken And n -
who made if ! said tint the NJ Go ,...,
scrib"d a rrinous ani mi Am ,ricsn 5.ds 81
relation to- revenue, which. iiadot led d., r.,
gross. would NOT only check abb iitufa iuyosi
mshts, but pros rate ev-Ty branch of mcrh,ri
cal AMI manufacturing industry whrp.yr,
manual labor and NOT labor saving p,cbiog,,
was extensively cmplDyed. Iafe Is t,e rnl,
~ uie words Of tlc Message