The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-07-15


would not be permitted 10 come here, and make
known as freemen might, their wants, and explain
their interests He trusted that the bill would be
referred aud that there yet would be some reflection,
some deliberaon, before the country would be
driven 10 the verge OF ruin. ~
The question was then taken on the motion TO
refer, and il was adopted-yeas "a, nays III.
RESOLUTION.
Mr. WESTCoTT submitted the following reso-
luton which lies over;
Resoiusd. That the Committee the judiciary be re-
questsd to report bill making an appropriation Tor mar
Chief Justice OF United states to be made by Hiram
Powers, similar to those heretofore made by authority Of
States the said bust 10 be placed IN the supreme Court
room.
REPORT or conmrrEE
Mr.. JOHNSON, of Louisiana, from the Com
mitiee on Pensions, reported without amendment,
the (House) bill for the relief of Samuel Jordan.
..s THE WAREHOUSE SYSTEM.
Mr. DIX moved that the Senate should resume
the consideration Of the warehouse bill.
Mr.. RUSK said that short bill In relation 10 the
Texan navy had been made the special order for
II O'Clock and that il the warehouse bill was now
taken up il would be likely TO interfere herewith.
Mr.. DIX hoped that the senator from Texas
would allow his bill 10 be passed over until tomor-
row. in order that the warehouse bill might he dis
posed OF The honorable senator from Delaware
tMr. J. M. CLAYrosl had been interrupted in his
remarks and Il was desirable that he should now be
allowed to proceed and conclude before the special
order for l O'Clock should arrive.
Mr.. RUSK sssented to the postponement until
tomorrow; and
The warehouse bill was then taken up; the ques-
lion being, Shall this bill pass?"
Mr. J, NJ. CLAYTON then resumed and
cluded his remarks in opposition to the bill.
Mr.. HUNTING TON said that he did not intend
to renew the discussion ON this bill. On former
las. k.al aHa htaa had
proposed amendments, some Of which had been
adopted, and which had deprived II Of portion Of
It's previous obnoxious provisions. Still, he was Of
opinion that the bill in its present form, is unaccep
able to great portion Of the people Of the country
and is deemed by them TO be, he had no doubt t
would prove to be, prejudical TO their essential
terests. He considered the bill as one Of the auxi-
aries of the proposed tariff and sub-reasury bills,
and designed 10 bear part IN promoting the same
objects And he believed that the bill, should Il
become law (as he foresaw II would) would, in its
results, prove beneficial only to few rich capital
sts and mainly to foreigners and their factors and
deleterious to American merchants, mechanics, and
manufacturers, and To the labor, commerce, ship
ping, and other important interests Of our own coun-
try, he was DESTROYS Of recording his vote against it,
and TO effect that object, he moved that the question
be taken by yeas and nays.
Mr.. ok briefly replied to Mr.. J. NJ. CLAYTON,
combining his remarks principally to the objections
urged by that gentleman against the final action up
on the bill, until afer action shall have been had
upon the tariff
MONS and CRITTENDEN against the BILL
Mr.. WEBSTER said: feel Il my duty TO vote
for a measure to which 80 many friends, Of expert
ence and judgment, have objected. have, however,
been in favor of a warehousng system for long
time-slnce have been in Congress. The reasons
upon which that opinion has been founded are that
believe that well-regulated warehouse system
Toes give considerable facilities to the foreign COM
merce of the country. IL has been represented by
the mercantile intereats uniformly for thirty years.
The objection against it, principally relied now,
u.s. that may interfere, or is likely to interfere pre-
udielay with the domestic industry Of the country
oy creating accumulation Of foreign commodities
always ready to come into the market. agree there
10 something in that argument. Another objection is
that II Is connected, appears to be connected, with
| other measures to which Others and myself, en-
tlrey opposed. And agree that there Is something
in that argument | wish il had been made TO
| succeed rather than TO precede the decision of
| the Senate upon the tariff. But nevertheless, my
opinion is, that it should rather be object pro-
tect the domestic industry of the country by laying
protective duties upon such articles manufac-
tured at home rather than by obsructng the foreign
| commerce Of the country, or Withholding from it
| such facilities as may make II more and more ex-
tensve; and this bill provides that the goods shall
| remain in store but one year, do not apprehend
any such accumulation for short period as other
II
Of the bill ID open TO the OF the American
chant, and with the same great facilities the for
eIgn importer, am, upon the whole, inclined givs
ibis system an experiment II il be found prejudi-
cial, we can get rid Of 1t.
The question then taken on the passage Of
the bill, and resulted follows:
YEAs-Mcssrs. Allen, Archer Ashley Aichson Ather.
ton Bagby, Benton, Berrien, Breese, Bright Calhoun,
ass Ghalmers G9lqu,t Dickinson Dix Fairfield Hanns'
,lcDuie, Pennyhacker, Rnsk SEWER speght, Turney,
Webster Westcott, and Yuee-si
NAlS-Messrs. Barrow Cameron, Cilley. Thomas
Clayton, John NJ. Clayton. Crittenden. Davis, Dayton
Greene Hant d Jar1agn johnson Of Maryland,
seon, and w oodbridge-20.
So the bill was passed. .
THE TARIFF AGAIN.
The Senate then resumed the consider ration of the
"b to provide revenue from imports, and for other
purposes"
TARIFF.
The Senate then resumed the consideration of the
| tariff bill.
Mr.. EVANS proceeded in his remarks in oppo-
ston to the bill.
We insert here the following portion of the re-
marks made by Mr.. E. yesterday, the report OF
which was prepared, but accidentally omitted in the
"Union" last evening. We give also his estimate of
the losses to the unde. the operation of the
bill 1t is proper to add that in apologizing for the
omission of this table, the proeEreader made re-
mark which, as II appeared TO convey the erroneous
impression that Mr.. EVANS had had something to
do with the preparation of the report requires cor.
rectlon. The report was made exclusively by our
reporter, and for all oft he is solely responsible
REP.
We hear it said that this law was designed for
protection alone. No, sir. We knew it would
yield good protection, but passed this at a time
when your treasury was empty and your cred
II gone. We passed it as revenue measure.
Why, often hear it said--I saw il in the news
papers the other day-that this tariff of lS42 was
never designed for permanence- it was a tenn
porary measure-that it was forced upon us by the
necessities of the times. Well, 10 not that tanta-
mount to an admission that il passed as a rev.
cnue measured We know that there were three
gentlemen who voted for that bill on that ground,
and without whose votes the bill could not have
been passed. refer to gentleman from Pennsylva-
MIA, now in high station, (Mr. Buchanan "a gen.
tleman from New York. also in high station, (Mr
Wright and my colleague at the time, iMr. VIII
LIAMs who gave as their reasons for voting for the
bill the necessitous state of the treasury Well
has Ia- th,N IL.