The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1846-08-17
Correspondence Of the New Orleans Bulletin !
WAsHIHoros. Julv 90 1915

As anticipated yesterday, the House concurred
without dfhculty In the amendment of the Senate 20
the tarih bill, and that important measure has be.
come law, or al least lacks only the Formally of the
Executive approval. The new duties 70 INTO effect
on the LIST OF December. am moi surorissd =, hi.
triumph OF the doctrine OF low duties although 1
haTuly believed, until within a few weeks that il
would have occurred at the present session of Con-
gross, Out l have considered, and frequently so
sateu 10 'he Bulletin, that the Introduction into the
prlsh Parliament OF Sir Robert Peel's new tariff
and especially Of the proposition 10 anDuI the corn
laws as ioresnadowng the fate Of the protective doc
trlne everywhere. IL takes away the ground unon
which the system has always been ad yoc,ted in ms
country and leaves II naked proposition to take
o certain Classes OF Industrial pursuits and give to
certain other classes. And so | have noted in all
the discussions which have heard in the Senate
uhat the doctrine Is no longer contended for as a
means merely OF nursing the infancy of the pursuits
Pr1Posei TO be encouraged and setting them on their
lee', or as necessary retaliation on the onereus
exacuons Of other governments but as A princinle 10
oe permanently engrafted into the economy of the
country system OF bounties TO be perne,uaIIy
levied. Thus, Mr.. Webster's chief argument for
the continuance OF protective duties, was the fact
That they had already operated for so long a time
ana Quilt up 30 many interests; and the elaborate
examination into which he entered in. favor Of ths
ooa ana iron trudes, was based solely on the prop
ostlon that, owing TO various causes which he re-
cited, those interests could not survive without a
constant guarantee against foreign competition.
mus, also Mr.. Mics in his closing speech, boast
ed and threatened that the protected interests had
grown IN power and importance "three hundred Der
cent since the enactment Of the tariff Of IS42, and
could not and would not now be put down or have
their bounty Withdrawn. No wonder the Congress
thought thigh time to stop the meat on which this
Caesar had grown so great
Iouching the sugar interest, it lie believed by
many who have specially noted the operation of the
existing law, that Me new bill wall prove quite as
favorable III certain that very great frauds have
been committed under the present law by the intro
dueton OF sugar in liquid state at the rate of duty
charged on moasses; thus giving the sugar of Lou.
isana the advantage of ess than FIVE mills, instead of
me protection which 1t nominaIly has of two and
hait cents pound; but whether these frauds have
oeen 10 an extent to the assumption that the
new law will afford the planter as large protection
as he has actually enjoyed under the act of I842.
nave not had an opportunity to verify. Three OF
the four representatives from Louisiana. however
nave thought well enough of the new bill to vote for
IL, though both of our senators and of our rep
reseniat'ves opposed it, thus in fact, dividing the
delegation of the State