Mobile register and journal., 1845-12-15

rewnuc, il should be procured by taxing the free nr- tcler, rather than transcend. in any e. the lowest revenue duties. IL Is thought, however, that, with out exec edIne lis limit in any. adequate revenue will snli be produced, and De nit the addi- ton h the free list oI Pa and gu'no. ln one of his annial messages, Mr. Jefferson recommended To Congress he suppression of the duties upon salt. A large portion of this duly is exhausted in heavy expsnses Of measaring sali and Tn large spins Hd for fishing bounties and allowances in lieu of the draS back of the duly, both which expenditures wosld lail with llle repeal oi the which repeal, therefore can considerable reduction Dl tue revenue Salt is necessary of lie and should be as hee from tax air or water. IL is used m large quantities be the iarner and planter; and 10 lhe Dotr this nx operates msst oppI essiyely, not only in inc use of ihe article itseif but as combined with saltd provisions. The salt made abroad by solar eyapora Is also most pure and wholesome, and i, as conservative of health, should be exempt from taxation.
 The duty on cotton-bagging is equivalent to 55, 20 per cent ad d-vai1rem on the Scotch baggmg, and lo l23II per cent. the gunny bag aad yet the whole revenue from these duties has fallen o $66,O64 DO Nearly tlie entire amount, therefore, of ihis enor- nous tax makes addition To the revenue, but en- ures to he benefit of about thirty manufacturers As sxhs ofl cotton crop Is exported abroad, the same prbportion of the bsgging around the bale Is exported, aHd sold abroad al heavy loss, growing out of deduction for tare.--Now, duties are de- signed b operate only the domestic consumption, there ohght to ie draWbark of inc whole duty on cotlon.mggug re-exporied around the bale, on the same principles which drawbacks are allowed in other cases. The cotton planting IS ihe great ex- porting interest, and suffers from the tariff in the double capacity of consumer and exporter Cotton IS the great basls oi our foregH exchange, furnishing most of he means to pm chase imports and supply the revenue It is thus the of tw0.ihirds of the revenue, snd of our foreign freight and com merce unfolding our commercial marine and mari tune power Iuis also a bond of peace with foreign nations, constituting stronger preventive oi War than armies or naves, forts CT aImaments. Al pte sent prices. our cotton crop will yield an annual product of t72 GOO 000, and lhe manufactured fabric S504 00O ,O00, furnishing profit abroad 10 thousands of capitalists, and wages 10 hundreds ot thousands of the working casses--all of whom would he doep- y injured by any disturbance growing out Of state of var 10 the direct and adequate supply oi the raw material. If our manufacturers consume 4O0 ,OOO bales, il would them SIP ,O00 O00. whilst selling the manufactured fabric for $pS4.U00 ,0O0 and they should be he last To unite in imposing heavy taxes upon that great inieres which supplies them with the material, but of which they realize suc' iit- Inense profits. Accompanying the drawback of the duty un lorign coitonbaggng should be the repeal of the duty foreign cotton, which is imperative and delusiye, and mol desired b, the domestic pro ducer.
 The sum of $l 5is9s7 for supplying deficiency of for postage and nlso $500 00O for postage ofon-
 ess and of executive oecrs uded in tho above sum of $29 ,627,o5l 90.
 The sum Of Sl2I 05o for debt assumed the ctirs in the District of Cslambia the of 100000 for sup ply ing deficiency in the from postage and $350 UU0 for postages for Congress and executive departments included in the foregoing of $5,9 ,925 292 62.
 ITO be continued