The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1845-08-27

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either yielding mud or dangerous quicksand.
[UMos.
CIRCULAR OF THE SECRETARY OF gAE
TREASURY.
1 "Although the suboined statement has been in
circulation some. days uncontradiced, and we have
cruise TO put personal confidence in the individual
from whom we presume !. To have been derived. we
hesitate TO believe the statement, while we think IL
due to the government officers here TO place IL before
them. The New York Tribune Of the 2ad says:
"THE INQUisITWE CIRCULARS"
"A SHAMEFUL rnAvD.A list is going the rounds, Of
forty questions propounded practical manufacturers
and others by Mr. Secretary Walker of the Treasury De-
that this circular Is sent out to isanuhcures &C. ads
efmiaeIy with the view OF collecting testimony from pTnc
tical men OF all of opinions to be submitted 10 Con
Tor the information Of that body But assured
oy gentleman who has recently been engaged in visiting
drk Paterson sc. tai fhsss circulars mainly
:" BY them handed out 10 those aeters
g's Of Sss S fS :, cur
has recently visited oi has Received one OF Mr. Walk
ers nquistive circulars while the only sir locoioco manu
iactnrer he has found (oply three of them AeraD have
each been blessed with the secretarys inquiries and viii
"ef we shall have great body locooco siatis
tics made 70 order showing that the tariff ought 70 be up
that he pubic shah understand they are got together
"There is iittle need 70 argue OF that which is not
yet ascertained. Should prove true that postmas-
ters acting for the Secretary Of the Treasury 1--WE
have no idea that the secretary himself hsd any
share in such procedure,) have thought fit to con-
fine inquiries as TO of the most important of pub
lie interests single side ia partisan politics. they
will Of course be able TO explain the secretary,
and he TO the country, the motives of such course.
The whole affair will prove, We trust, TO be mis-
conception, or the work of some tools of faction,
which the baneful spolls system has placed in Office,
and unused think of anything but party tricks,
that, in their eagerness to please their superors,
they execute that which their superiors never de-
signed. n--.Natoaai mteiLgsncer Of this morning.
| On the above article from the "New York
Tribune" QUOTED by the "National Inelligencer
of this nlorning,) the "New York Morning News"
gives the following comments
"our high.pressurc tariff contemporary appears sadly
afraid din advonce) OF the facts and figures TO be furnished
ssaton il IS 50 10 sustain What fthey were To-
coioeo manufacturers wotd they be manufacturers
sli And is livery likely that their politics would so far
their business interests cause them
to forty lies to as many questions for the dsier
esied purpose of cutting their throasf Is ocoioeo
manufacturer much likely than wing falsely
the truth Of matters within his experience and obser
which ihe Tfhahes philosophy be sound Is his vital
| interes. 10 sustafni
But the outcry agahs the mode adopted for the disri
button Of the set Of nterrosaories a copy Of which we
have already Pubshe Is quite sIat ntons What more
adopted than to send number OF them to all the rosma
tersf The great body OF these officers will undoubtedly
intelligent manufacturers in their neighborhood
heneVer any uninterrupted wing manufacturers shall
win guaranty that his application TO the Treasury De
parment for cory Of ie qdestioas WIN meet win NJ
Papers the country win probably copy them this viii
and there he doubt that respect
able 10 exhibit to il respectable certificate to ihst effect
may send in his testimony assured Of welcome and tank
present able head Treasury Department The
statistics and testimony which viii be ELECTED by these
the replies is well performed win produce Of
mretse value We shall await its appearance with imPa
politics Of each respondent and whether wing democrat
we sSua be g,ad 70 see guslshsd in sseaion with
We (of the Union offcey have also reply to
make for ourselves Upon another theatre,
during the last winter called the attention
of the public to the fact of Mr.. McLane, when
Secretary Of the Treasury, having, in 1892, adj
dressed circular, (somehing like MIR. Walker's,)
and, upon the answers which he obtained, forming
his bill, afterwards called Verplanck's BILL Not sat
sfed with throwing out suggestion TO this effect in
the newspapers we wrote to two of our friends in
the last House Of Representatives and begged them
to move resolution calling upon the Secretary Of
the Treasury to obtain body of statistics like Mr..
McLane's and lay it before the next Congress
urging, of the reasons in behalf of the prop
osition, that the Secretary would be prepared to
meet the next Congress with wel-digested report,
founded upon valuable mass Of statistics Thus
Congress might go to work at once, and upon the
best and most authentic materials Neither of our
correspondents thought fit TO make the motion.
Fortunately, the present Secretary has undertaken,
upon his own responsibility, to obtain the requisite
information but, not having the assistance which
Mr.. McLane possessed, under the then existing
law of the country, of employing commissioners,
taking evidence Of the manufacturers and merchants,
and paying the commissioners for their labors out
of the contingent fund, Congress having since
Withdrawn that power,) Mr.. Walker is compelled
to throw himself upon the liberal manufacturers
themselves, and address copy of his circular
questions to persons who give him information,
in the best way he can command
And now state, upon the best authority, in
reply to the article of the National lntegencer of
this morning, that the assertions Of the New York
Tribune, to the alleged designs Of the Treasury
Department, are just the reverse of the truth.
The proper weight would not be attached, by
either party, to statistical information collected
exclusively from the other; and it is the anx-
lOWs ucSHc vi otSIttary Vi treasury w
lect the facts, as regards the tariff from all parties
The editors of the Integencer, ii they will call at
the Treasury Department, can receive any number
of these circulars, free of Charge and the postage
will be paid by the department on all they may d.
rect to their correspondents; and to all persons of
any party, who may desire the circular with
a view to answer the questions, copies OF IL
will be sent by mail free Of charge or postage.
We shall attempt to procure one hundred copies
from the Secretary; and the first fair opportunity
we possess, we will send them TO the Office Of the
"New York Tribune" to be distributed, at its own
discretion, among its fhvore wing manufacturers.
We may not be able to send on these circulars inn
mediatly until the Secretary may have an opPor-
tunity Of attaching additional queries to them.
ISWe have an interesting number hand,