Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1846-07-18
We are truly your most
Obedient Servants,
WILLIAM DAVIDSON e. CO.

TnB TARtfr.-The blow has been
struck, the free trade principles OF the adj
ministration are beginning to show them.
selves. Gen, Mekay's Tariff bin, with
some notifications passed in tho House of
Representatives on tho 3D. instant. The
duty on all kinda of sugars, and OIL molas-
ses, is fixed at thirty per cent at yalorem.
Thus Cuba sugar valued at > cents, per
invoice, can pay the duty; and be sold in
the New Orleans market IN 81 cents-a
ruinous composition to our planters. Those
who are established and out of debt. may
ride the storm, hut those who are preparing
10 manufacture sugar and may be
what involved, may rest assured that this
bill leaves them no chance of getting out
OF their dilemma. BY this bin the foreign
merchant and manufacturer will have the
advantage oyer our owl. The tariffbeing
so much on the value, the foreign merchant
or manufacturer can place whatever value
he may think ii and after paying the duty,
bring his goods in markets Of a cheaper rate
than our American manufactures can do.
However let the system have II fair trial.
let our manufactures be broken down and
our country become dependent on Great
Britain, and tho eyes of the american PEG.
pie may be opened to their own interests
and to the true policy the government ought
to pursue. There is still some hope that
the bill will either not be taken up, or may
ho rejected by the Senate. That body is
full at present and stands u wings to
30 democrats, as the whole delegation
in the house, from Pennsylvania, with one
exception, voted against the bin, we may
hope that their Senators win also obey The
obstruction they have received from the le-
gislature and people of their state, and vote
against any change in the tariff of 1s42. in
which case Gen, McKay's bill would be
defeated.
The Picayune makes the following sum.
mary of the proceedings at the passage of
the bin.
The final vote on the passage of the hin
was III 70 a5. Mr.. Brinkerhof. of Ohio,
voting with the majority. Tea and coffee
were struck out Of the original bin, and re-
main therefore, duty free. A duty of20 per
cent, was laid upon salt, aud the fishing
hounties restored, The bill totally rejects
the minimum principle and all specific du.
ties. The scene in The House while the
voting was going on upon the several 4.
mendmeRts was intensely interesting, but
there is hardly occasion to give more than
the above result, The following States nm.
a~nimously supported the bill; New Hamps-
hire, South Carolina, Alabama, Mississin-
pi, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri. II.
linois and Michigan. Maine, Virginia and
Louisiana had each but n dissentiant
and a majority of the delegations from
Tennessee, Ohio aud North Carolina srn.
ported the bHl-in all, Is States. New
York was equally diyided-but one mem.
Der from Pennsylvania voted for the BIN.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connection.
Vermont, New Jersey and Delaware voted
unanimously against il, and a majority from
Maryland and kentuckw-in all, @ States.
The Secretary Of The Treasury at Wash
thg on, has received all anonymous letter en.
closing $40, the amount purloined DIV some
government ahicer, 81 years ago. Conscience
him at last.