The daily union., 1846-08-26

the nsgaiive, the vote on the hna passage Of hs
bill enaeting the tariff Of 1912, thlr,y-hye wings,
whose names are:
j. q. Adams Thos. b. King
Thos. ID. Arnold 3. H. Lane
John M Bolts Arch. l.. Linn
Milton Brown Joshua Mathiot
w b. Campbell Anderson Mitchell
Thos. j. Campbell Kenneth Rayner
X. X. Caruthers u. Il, Owsley
Zadok Casey A. II, Sheppard
A L. Foster George W. summer
X. l.. Gamble j. b. Thompson
Meredith p Gentry Philip Tripeu
w. l. Goggin ]. r.. Underwood
Wills Green Lou Warren
r. W Habershnm w. II. Washington
w. C. Johnson @. FL. Williams
III. A. Wise "a
To which add the sixteen wings absent l6
And in the Senate wings voted NAY 6
Total, S
"Exhbiting a solid whig vote in the House and
Senate, of hirty-ine phigs voting against, and Of
fftu. fire ,ohigs NOT giving the bill their support!
"Have the whg presses complained Of this trssch-
cry the. part of their representatives. NO Have
they manifested any desire TO burn them in eifgy
NO And when Speaker White, a whig, and from
Clay's State and neighborhood, gave the casting
vote against engrossing this same bill for third read
ing, did the wings burn him in efigy NO. Yet
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burn him in ethgy, and perpetrate all kinds of indie.
eency and indlgniiy upon him for doing no more
| than Speaker White did. Mr.. Dallas decided by
his vote, 10 engross bill for the third reading which
il carried finally would supersede the act Of 1912 )
White decided against engrosslng the bill Of 1892
for third reading, which would have been the last
Oft had il not been reconsdered, and finally carried
by democrats not because they considered il good
bill, and that II ought not TO be corrected the f
favorable opportunity, but because il was at the close
Of the session and when all hope Of passing another
had vanished. IngrsoIs bill had been voted down.
and other wholesome measures had been violently
objected 10, so that there was no other alternative
but to adopt the bin adjourn without making any
provision for revenue for the support Of govern
ment Let men ofall parties reflect seriously upOa
the facts therein stated. H. A Gn
Besides these statements, it may be added that
in the House Of Representatives the bill was hrs
rejected on its engrossment by the casting vote Of
the speaker, Mr.. White, the devoted friend Of Mr.
Clay;) that then, the motion to reconsider, was
again lost by his casting vote; but by species Of
parliamentary legerdemain which il is not so easy to
explain, two members, (Messrs. Andrews, of Ken
lucky, and Stanley, of North Csrolina,) who had
first refused to vote, but afterwards claimed Ii.
right to vote, because they were within the bar Of
the House, saved the bill by a majority of one
In the Senate it passed through fiery ordeal, sev.
eral senator's who voted in its favor declaring hs,
they voted for il under sheer necessity, and that
they would unite in an effort to correct il at som,
future period; and after all it rubbed through
by majority of only one--24 yeas, 90 nays And
yet this is the bill TO which the wings have recently
declared their unshaken allegiance.
Mr.. Evans, senator ftom Name, said "the bin
was already sufficiently onerous the shipping
interest Of our country. Already every article that
enters into the consumption of shipbuders is heay.
lily taxed" she did not think, for the sake Of some
four or hye manufacturers, that the whole Of the
shipping interest ought TO be sacrificed"
Mr.. Merrick, (from Maryland,) another whig
senator and friend Of protection, sad at a bdl
to tax the interests Of the agcultursts for the ben
EFT of the manufacturer" thar il was "unust and
unequal" and moved that it last but two years ard
said: "His object was to give to the next Congress
| an opportunity to deliberate nine months on the
subject and to readjust and arrange it .on proper
princi pes."
On this limitation motion of Mr.. Merrick, the
votes stood-yeas 81, nays 90 OF the yeas, 9 are
wing votes, and among these are the votes oil
Messrs. Crittenden, Preston, Berrien, and Rives.
But these gentlemen are not contented with SIM
ply voting for the limitation of the measure. They
took care TO define their positions more distinctly
Mr.. CrIttenden stated that he had "with reluet.
ance come to the conclusion of voting for this bill
Mr. Preston said che supposed it must be obyi-
Gus TO everybody that there could now be hardly
such an adjustment of the tariff as could be consd
cred permanent but that some revenue bill was in
dispensnble."
And yet we were lately told that the repeal of the
act of lS42 was to prove the ruin of the country
Some of the democratic senators (as we showed
on former occasion) protested against some of its
provisions, whilst they voted for the bill
Mr.. Buchanan, after pointing out with great
nue. law without delay, said of the tariff of ls42
ut Is a bill of which do not approve, and for
which should not vote, were il not for the present
unparalleled condition of the existing law, the
treasury, and the country"
Mr. Wright said "the alternative presented them
IS this bill or none;" and the deep and deliberate con-
vlclon OF his mind was that the bill should pass,
bad and loaded with defects" as he believed it to be,
rather than none should pass.
Upon the agricultural interest this bill must ops.
rate IN the main as tax and burden; and upon /
very few articles of agricultural production where
protection might be afforded, it is not given to an
extent anything like equal in proportion to that (
which is given to the manufactured article"
We cannot pass this part Of the subjective can.
not pass over the distinguished name of slas
Wright, of New York, who, after having lent so
much grace to the Senate Of the United States,
and was honored with nomination to the chair Of
the Vice President, and now occupies the gubcr. (
material chair Of the Empire State, came forward
to endorse and strengthen by his own message Of !
January last the measures recommended by Mr.. +
Polk in his message to Congress-. Mr.. Wrghts \
opinion deserves the more weight, not only be. I
cause 1t emanates from man of great ability, /
but because is perfectly consistent with the views
which he expressed in 1S42, when he felt himself /
under the necessity Of voting for the law with a
solemn protest against its provisions. The Presi-
dent of the United States, in his message of Decem
Der last protested also against its principles and laid
down the elements which should constitute the \
basis Of proper tariff. He recommended the rev. n
enue principle alone as the legitimate foundation Of
the tariff He recommended the ad paloreyn pin- J
clple also, as the best standard Of taxation. lie
dscaimed Of course, the minimum principle as well
as specific duties: