Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1846-08-01

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amount of duties the other articles Here is your main
reduction, and il is all articles OF extreme luxury The
whole reduction in the bill such articles as none OF the
middle classes have any direct interest in is now
proposed whether you will will not continue this
process whether you will while reducing duties articles OF
the highest luxury used by the rich alone increase duties on
articles which constitute the material OF home
manufactured articles out Of which all the abong OF the
country their daily lving-artces which furnish occu-
patton handicra labor On these articles you have in
creased your duties You diminish the duty to be paid by the
rich and raise the duty be paid by the masses You
ment the duties under tariff which you declared to be an OBJ
noxious Wing measure and which duties you demanded to
have reduced You asked to send the bill to com
mtee, that they may take off the additional amount where
your duties proposed exceed those laid by the tariff OF
lS42-and you will not do it. You are determined TO indulge
who the richest uxues and to raise your taxes
the poor abore The whole character OF this bill that
reve in the delight Of taking away mems employ
ment This characteristic runs through the whole Of IT,
had hoped that the gentleman Mr.. JAnSAaIS) who de-
cared himself yesterday with much emphasis against The
policy taxing the MATERIAL would have held TO his pur
pose. shall hold mine While this bill reduces the du
ties the highest luxues Of life occasoning thereby vast
loss the revenue and while you refuse to lower the duties
here imposed material down to the level Of the
bill Of ls42 say that your bill holds language which
cannot and which will not be misunderstood The people OF
the United States will that this is not bill for the
that It's bill for the poor that is not bill for employ
men but that is bill for the relief Of the highest and most
luxurious classes Of the community They will perceive and
understand that il is bill which goes take his living from
the poor and the aboous while lessons the taxes OF
his rich neghbor. None so blind that they will not
this the people caous that they will not feel it.
In this view admit that this is question is test which
settles who in favor of raising the material
the ruin of the American aborer and who in favor Of
reducing duties the highest Injuries Of human life That
is the test, and none can escape from it.
am in favor of keeping this bill in the committee. shall
for that The committee here and tell there is
time do what we have directed They say they
do it Sir, the like heard Could not the
ee have at least said ready to do what the Senate
requires, but it will take long time TO do it
Mr.. SPEIGHT That is the very report made.
Mr.. WEBSTER No such thing. The committee made
report They have not presented any report to this body
which would submit their views to the Senate and let the
Senate decide upon them do believe that that commit
have conferred half hour do not think they have
considered the thing for ten minutes indeed doubt if they
have met at ALL Yet they tell they cannot do what
have instructed them to do Why the first branch of
the instructions there difficulty at all Where is it
There is not gentleman here who could not do it in
hour No the committee decline doing it, not from Of
time, but from want of purpose. -
Here Mr.. SEWER called Mr.. WEBSTER to order.
Mr.. WEBSTER. To order How am out of order :
Mr. SEWER The Senator is out Of order in rejecting
the purposes of the committee.
Mr.. WEBSTER. / said it from the purpose of the
committee and is not Is the purpose Of the
mittee that this bill shall pass is Is not that your pur-
pose
Mr.. SEWER insisting on his point Of order
The CHAIR decided that there was nothing in the
marks of the Senator from Massachusetts the least out Of
order.
Mr.. WEBSTER. Now, then, think that for such an
interruption the Senator from Arkansas and the Sc
nate a handsome apology,
Mr. SEWER (laughing.) Well, | make you hand
a a know how.
Mr. WEBSTER. 1t somehow always happens that my
differences with the Senator from Arkansas end good
ured sort of way. A laugh.
To what saying say still, that If the Com
mitee Finance had thought incumbent them to obey
the instructions Of the Senate they would have found time to
do it. Before meridian this day they might readily have
r..
tons But rather think they did greatly fatigue them
selves but concluded that the best way would be to take
short cut and ask to be discharged in the hope that
thing might which would enable them to pass this bill
do not believe they so much opened book.
And now say that when this bill shall be passed. there will
be need Of writing the body Of whether lisa Democ
tic aristocratc bill When the laborng that
the duty the material which forms the staple Of his
work is ased while that silks, Spices preserved
fruits, rich carpets and rich lowered he will
not ask any to give the bill its nameits its
face an arsocratc bill, and every item in corresponds
to that general character.
Mr. McDUFFIE said that the Senator from Massachusetts,
in cbaracerizing this asocrac bill, imposed him
the duty of saying few words before the question should be
taken that he might dsabusc the public mind Of any such
impression. The Senator had asked with great confidence,
and surely with the expectation Of being replied to- where
the democratic feature in this bill Where wasthe pro-
vision for the abong classes He had selected few articles
of luxury which the duties reduced leaving to be
inferred that these were the principal reductions the BILL
will tell the Senator what the democratic features Of
the bill In the first place it has reduced the duty salt
from eight bushel II has reduced the
duty sugar from and half cents per h.
On all the consumers of cacoes, plain printed species
Of goods used by all the farmers and mechanics and labor
ers, and their families, God knowshow much. believe that
all the articles consumed by the poor and by the middle
classes the reduction greater than all other articles the
BILL The simple repeal of the mnimums cottons
sort of known till the tariff of either in this
in any other country will alone enable the people Of the
United States to consume increased importation to the
value of ten millions Of dollars at prices not than two
thirds of what they pay.
What is the great reduction in this bill which is thought
is to prove injurious TO the country Il is the protecting
duties manufactures made in large establishments by the
of machinery owned by heavy capitalists who
azing from thirty to forty per cent profit The repeal Of
these duties will operate reduce the profits of these
eight ten per do myself believe that the
ney price Of labor will be reduced onehaf much the
price of the commodities used by the aborers and therefore,
that the practical effect Of this bill will be most favorable to
the great Of aborers and Of
all the people Of the United States The aborers in their
factories will get the WHOLE for their labor than they
get now.
But will take leave to refer the honorable Senator from
Massachusetts, certain resolutions passed in Boston in 1920
which said to have been drawn up and supported in
powerful speech by that honorable Senator himself after
The commencement Of the system Of protecting American
by high duties The duties at that time
about 20 25 per cent cottons, wooens, and IRON
proposition had been made enhance these duties they
were afterwards fixed by the tariff Of 1924. And in
opposition to this proposal that at meeting of the merchants
Of Boston, where these resolutions passed. the Senator
took very distinguished part in getting them adopted One
OF those resolutions remember, affirmed that the effect of
protecting laws to benefit the great capitalists and not the
labor Of the country.