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

hing at once and forever and to the ncesssnt ding
dong, mpertinent, and provoking lectures oil the Or
gan upon It. Whether any thing have said or
DONE or could say or do had any influence In bring
| ing about such result, know NOT but, al all
events | did my best towards IL and trust that the
Union will now find leisure TO harp on some theme
other than the beauties OF tea and coffee tax. lhIs
provision of the bill having been stricken out, one
with me, iIsuperabe objection to the bill was reno
we'd.
| NV minor, but still important objections 70 The
| bill were also either entirely removed or rendered
much less excepuonable, by amendment IN Commit
tee Of the Whole. The duties on spirits and cor
dias have been raised from rs to 100 per cent and
those on wines from 80 10 40 per cent. The duty
on wool has been raised from IS per cent to 80 per
cent, and the raw material placed on an equality
with the manufactured article. The duty on nax-
seed and that ofthe oil manufactured from have also
been equatzsd. In the progress OF the bill through
the Committee Of the Whole, long catalogue OF ar
ticles have either been transferred from the free TO
the dutiable lists, from the schedules paying
lower rate Of duty those which higher rate Is
assessed; and thus, the bill having been materially
amended and rendered, as believe, far more effec-
tive as revenue measure; and, being sincerely desi-
rous Of getting rid OF the noongrues and inequall-
ties which characterize the tariff ACT Of 1912, felt
TO be my duty vote for its PASSAGE although can
dor compels me 10 say, 1 still entertain serious
doubts whether il will be found 70 furnish the me-
oessary revenue, ard satisfied II would have been
wlser, and much more likely TO prove a permanent.
ly satisfactory measure, had somewhat more been
yielded in the way Of compromise, to the peculiar
wishes and views Of the delegation from Pennsylya-
MIA Time, which tries all thiags, will test the ac-
euracy Of these opinions.
But, sir, the organ proper to charge upon me
change Of sentiment OF action in reference TO this
question. Now, sir, report Of my remarks has
been made out by the Unions own excellent report
err from notes taken in shorthand at the time they
were delivered and published in that paper on the
ID inst That report, so far as am capable OF rec
ollecting what did say is literally correc and, al
though my remarks were made under the impulse OF
no Uncomfortable feeling, arising from the constant
teasing of the Unions lectures to which have alu-
den, yet | defy the world to point out
single expression in that speech at all
ncon with either any past declaration or sub.
sequeDt vote Of mine. The Committee OF Ways
and Means have yielded far more to me than have
| Welded TO them-far more. The mountain has
| gone TO Mahomet--not Mahomet to the mountain
There has been no change on my part-none what
ever, sir.
Bot the Union, without any foundation in fact,
assumes the existence of a change on my part, and
then proceeds to attribute that change to private,
personal and selfish considerations. Sir, It i'll be-
comes a man who has denounced an independent
treasury day, and has been its eulogst the next
who has been on all sides Of the Oregon question,
from the extreme of $40 4V to far less than Ago
| within the period of a single week; who, though
the organ of an administration pledged both before
and after it's election and its installation into power
TO the maintenance of rights 10 "ths tchole Of
Oregon" has expressed his satisfaction at the cleo
ton Of the station of chairman of the Com
| mittee on Foreign Relations in the Senate, who, of
| all American statesmen, Is the only one who has
uniformly gone for none al all of Oregon say, sir,
il III becomes such man to talk OF changein others;
and still less does it become him to attribute an
| assumed change to selfish and corrupt consldera-
TONS when he himselfs stipendiary upon govern
mental bounty and in the receipt OF tens Of thou
! sands from the public crib.
| Sir, made no charges Of personal character
against either the administration its organ com
planned Of no private griefs, for had none to com
plain Of Personally, the dealings of the admins
trafion towards me had been courteous and not un-
kind. My specifications we're Of public character
in reference to its public action on public ques
TONS and they true. IL has abandoned its posi-
| ton on the Oregon question. IL has sought, and
taken and acted on wing advice in its adjustment;
and the voice Of the democratic press OF the whole
| West comes back TO us in one unbroken volume Of
condemnation. II ha, been garngly partial To the
South in its distribution Of the influential public ap-
poinments Of the government, and ourageoosly
unjust to the West In general and to Ohio IN par.
| ticuar Let the organ answer these things instead
| ofendeavoring to escape from them behind cloud
Of personalities For my SELF will not now descend
TO the employment Of such weapons; and there are
| circumstances connected with the history Of this
administration and its dispensation Of public Office,
which should make its organ cautious how 1t re-
| sorted to thsir use.
As to the member from Indiana, whom the Union
quotes with much gusto, Me-. WroK,l | will
| leave him to the tender mercies ef the gentleman
from New York, Mr.. RArHHUN. | am humane
man, and not at all disposed TO muiate the dead or
to impart additional pang to the tortures Of the
| damned.
Mr.. B having concluded,
| Mr. HAML1N obtained the floor.
MIR. WICK rose and asked leave to make per-
sohal explanation.
| After brief conversation, Mr. HAMLIN yield
ed the floor, and leave was given to Mr.. Wick
to make personal explanation.
| Mr.. WICK said:
| Mr.. SPEAKER: On the Both ult., as is known, l
delivered speech on this floor the subject of the
tariff. In so doing, took occasion to state in
advance, and alphabetically, the causes of our failure
to act upon that sube in accordance with the vows
Of the democratic party, made as such to the coun-
| try and to the world. OF course, all said was
hypothetical, as we had not as yet taken single
vote, indicative Of ultimate decision. | stated, as
those can see, inter ala and in substance as fol-
lows lst. That the dem ocrats from the State OF
Pennsylvania with one or two exceptions, were un-
derstood to be pledged vote against any change IN
tariff law Of lS42. Cd, That it was anticipated that
feeling in favor of that principle, called by Its ad
vocates protection, would operate to some extent
upon the votes of democratic friends from New
York; and, Sd. | alluded to certain ofice-seekns
instincts, and disappointments; and in connection
with this drew picture of the demeanor here OF a
tricky New Yorker. | alluded to no gentleman by
name except to the honorable member from Ohio,
[Mr. BRlNKERHoFF.] Although, with the excep-
ton stated, made personal remark, the honor.
able member from Ohio, Mr.. McDowELL, seemed
to take offence at what said, and, in personal ex-
PLANTATION, made on the morning of the ls instant,
when | was not present, because of illness,
took occasion to speak of "vei which
he proposed threatened "to lift" This was
said with direct reference to myself person.
ally and was understood to have reference to my
political course. Now, sir, in the course Of my
speech on the 30th ut, lifted the only veil that
| have any knowledge of, by stating that twelve
voted with tae side in politics now called wing;
and that ten years ago come August, had voted
with the democrats, and constantly since. | will
now make one exception. In my representative
lcapacity, in the 26lh Congress, voted, under in
attractions spaiuat the passage of the ndependent