The Columbia Democrat. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1837-1850, 1846-09-26

,cusIi6sd aud explained IT, il could be made
TO snbierve political purposes!
10 our paper of August 22d we exposed
lhe deception of our neighbours Article and
that too in ,he most fair and unexcepdona-
IbIs manner. We copied his article entire
into our coluMns, aud underneath, gave the
proceedings sud votes ia the Senate, upon
the subject 81 thai hiS article and he rub
llshed facts appeared IN contrast, both pre-
senled at one view, 20 the eye Of the read
ler,
This exposition OF ours appears to have
been sufficiently Calling to call forth an edl-
lorsI rejoinder in The DanyiIle DsmocIaI OF
August 2sIh aud (n connection with SIM
liar article to ours 10 a neighboriug print J a
furious article from a correspondent OF the
same paper under the date Of Sept. 4'h,
These articles We how propose 10 notice.
The editor charges upon US, that in quot
ing from the proceedings Of the Senate, we
carefully excluded lhe votes 90 Mr., Dick
Ilnsnn's amendment We did no such
,hingl The yeas and nays are not gwen in
the published proceedings and consequently
we could not exclude them, in making out
quotations.
The correspondent seems to think thai
Mr.. Evans's biIi was 'eminenhy wise and
lust and Mr.. Evans himself, ian honorable
Senator, generally acknowledged among all
honest and sensible men, TO be one Cf firm
eat and most intelligent friends Of the pro.
tecve policy We are quite willing lhal
Mr. Evans should should wear all his Iau
rels, and that they should be un(ading. We
are willing moreover, that our neighbor and
his correspondents should euIogize him TO
their hearts content and mourn over bis re-
trsnent from the Senate TO The walks oil
private life. But, upon this particular sub
iect Of Rail Road lion duties, perhaps
he meriS no grea! degree of commenda'
lion.
| Ne say, and the journals o. Congress
Prove il. that ever since 1912, at every see.
sion, George Evans, Whig Senator from
Maine, has heen engaged in efforts to pro-
cure rail road iron to be imported fee OF
duty OF 10 remit duIi!s on impnrtaGons al,
ready made. Sometimes the bill has been
Especial, and sometimes general, --sOmeines
it has been for particular companies, and
sometimes for all importing states and com
panies sometimes ii has spilled 10 future
nporiatiOns and sometimes TO past.
ca The 2lst OF February 1874, Mr.,
Evans reported from the comMiuee on Fl.
nance 10 The Senate, a tilI, entitled an act
providing for The remission Of dS,y on rail
road iron. The following we're lis provis.
ions.
list. That whenever any rail road iron
ready for use should be imported within
fuc years thereafter by any state or ncolpo
rated company, and should De actually laid
down within three years from the date OF its
importation, il should DO DU rY FREE,
upon the mere paymen! OF fees and expen-
ses.
ID. That in case Of all rail road iron i'm
ported subsequnt to IA July 1882, that had
been or should be. laid down within three
years after ts importation, the du!ies paid
thereon should be REFUNDED out of the
Treasury Of the United States; and if the
duties were unpaid, all bonds given for their
payment ahsuld be cancelled and discharg-
led,
This was Mr.. Evans's bIII and il defines
his position for !he last FIVE years, upon
the euoject Of railroad ircn imporrstions
But, upon the 25lh, Of May 1914, he cub.
niileG amendments TO the foregoing bill, for
STRIKING oOt 'hVe' years IN the frs! section
and inserting Two years &c. &c. These
amendments were offered, lie eaid with a
view Of rendering the bill more acceptable
to those be expected would oppose it, He
obviously, 9as in favor Of The bill as it
stood; but he agreed 10 some slight amend,
msnis, in order to gain additional support.
or U'e ViH continue Mi8 subject in
om neTt nnmbr
CONGRESSIONAL CONFERENCE.
The Congressional Conferees Of CoIum,
bia Luzcrne and Wyoming, met AT Wilkes.
barre, on Friday, the 18th inst. and unani-
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