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

working most diligently fulfil the DEGREES OF the Baltimore
Convention while they utterly dsegaded the petitions anc
memorials Of the people Then had great disputes among
the faithful to what was promised at Baltimore and what
promised All these questions about free trade and
Subteasry, Oregon DC were but 50 many empty barrels
which had been aoat the of the late Presen-
a election. They had answered that purpose, and
for Gods sake let gentlemen throw them overheard As fol-
the subeasuy he believed that overheard already Let
gentlemen throw the rest after IT, and then set
gently to do the public business and go home.
As TO this amendment his friend from Delaware had in
oduced it he might out Of courtesy consent to vote for it
but, if should pass what would the committee do They
would only turn the bill and put little new color on It,
make it little like Gods truth, and then VIC
should have il back again. 1E
Mr.. LEWIS, chairman of the Committee Finance
said that as one of the members of that committee he wished
understand what this resolution really meant for seemed
I'd him quite unnteligbe The object he compehendet
it, take the duty imposed by the bill off Of all articles
Of material If he supposed hemp one and HI
took for granted the gentleman meant that the committed
must reduce the duty hemp. Was wool another : He
supposed they must reduce the duty wool and if So how
much
/ Mr.. JOHN M CLAYTON said he thought there could be
great difficulty in understanding wha, his resolution meant
The law Of ls42 imposed specific duties those imported
articles which constituted the materials of American mann
acures The chairman Of the committee would have nothing
do but to consult the Of s42 and what those ar
Giles II he found Of them present free OF duy
the resolution required him to leave them free Of duty if he
found of them under moderate duty then the resolution
required him report the duty in the present bill
And word two to what had been said by his
friend from Kentucky II any gentleman took it for granted
that Mr. c. that all who voted for this resolution of in
ucons would ocourse be bound to vote bill lift should
be amended he greatly mistaken Mr. g. considered
gentleman under any such pledge. No man was bound
for bill like this because the committee should obey
the instructions by making slight alterations in it. If
those instructions should be honestly and fully carried out the
result would be found utterly hostile the wishes and notions
of all the gentlemen the other side OF the chamber and all
the doctrines of the Secretary Of the Treasury There was no
of that He presumed that must evident to every man.
eanffpr
might upon il they pleased Mr.. z. offered II
that he might show his hand and that the world might he
had made least effort the interests OF tie mechanics
and the manufacturers those instructions should be carried
out while the material admitted free under light
duty, the of required by the Government
would have be raised the articles in the bill but if the
committee evadng the instructions should send back to the
Senate brutnm uten, all those who voted honestly
for the instructions would Of vote against the bill
kill it. He assured his friend from Kentucky that neither he
any other could by possibility be hostile to the
bill than Mr. c. was and he freely admitted that of the
primary objects he had in view in offering these resolutions
instructions had been defeat the BILL That and that alone
his object He anxious to destroy it, and should
oice to see it dead.
Loud for the question. The question thereupon
put by the Chair and decided, by yeas and nays follows
YEAS-Messrs. Archer, Barrow, Berrien Cameron, Gil
ley, John NJ Clayton, Thomas Clayton, Corwin Crenden,
Davis Dayton Evans, Greene Huntington Jarnagn John
of Louisiana, Johnson of MARYLAND, Mangum Miller,
Morehead, Miles, Pearee Phelps Simmons, Sturgeon, Up
NAYs-Messrs Allen Ashley, Atchison, Atherton Bag
by Benton, Breese, Bright Calhoun, Glass; Chalmers, Col
qu Dickinson, Dix, Fairfield Hannegan, Houston, Lewis
McDufe Penny Rusk Sempe Sewer, speght Tur
ney, Westcott, and fulee--N.
So the first portion Of the resolution agreed to- Tn
question the latter part OF the resolution then put
carried by precisely the vote.
And them motion Mr. BREESE the Senate adjourned
j IN SENATE-JULI %, 1876.
Mr. BENTON and asked the indulgence Of the Sen
ate for few moments he might recur to proceeding
of He AL
ing when the resignation of Mr. HAYweoD announced
the Senate he would have awaited himself of that oppor
ny make the remarks which he about make.
Had he been in his that moment he would have made
the Senate Of what he knew the
which led Mr. Haywoods resignation and of the motives
which had induced him resign his in the Senate Mr.
Haywood absent the time the tariff bill from the
House of Representatives At the very first of his
appearance in the Senate after his return he took aside
and impaired his nsupeabe objections TO the BILL He
stated that he could not go for it and proposed to en-
deavor amend it. gave him understand very poinedy
and did the Senate subsequently, that my objections to
the bill very strong, and that the only why
should for it that might get rid Of the of SAG;
that, for any amendment deemed utterly impossible in
the present ohngs that there could be the debaton
necessary perfect the details of the Mr.. Hay
wood then sgned intention to move postponemen
told him it impossible that il could prevail He then said
that he would resign his seat and from that time his mind
remained mmovabe.
give these details to show that his mind consistent
and uniform in regard the before the Senate
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higher nober motives than he has in regard to this matter
in every thing that he did up the time OF his resignation
endeavored to dssuade him from the act All that desire to
say is repeat that believe there who,
in the performance Of public duty, actuated by purer,
| higher, or more noble motives than Mr.. Haywood.
Mr.. MANGUM said he very much grati6ed that the
Senator from Missouri had thought proper advert this
He the so, nasmuch the organ of the
Government this city, had assaied Mr. HArwooDs pub
lie and private character with such degree Of eocity and
in his judgment unusty, that he thought every liberal
Senator should stand forward and sustain and commend
what every acknowledge to be the perfect purity
and dsnteesedness his in regard the subject which
the occasion Of his resignation No in the State of
North Carolina perhaps, differed widely than himself
from the late Senator in political sentiment that difference
had long existed and likely To continue but political
considerations could be permitted 10 interfere far he
concerned with feelings of personal respect for gentle
whose honor and probty uncontamnated and
trely above suspicion, though assaed the unworthy
which they had witnessed in the government paper
this city, Without advertng TO the wisdom righteousness
of the adopted by his late colleague he satisfied
that he had acted upon the best consideration and upon his
honest conception of what due to himself and the
country patriotic citizen and he felt that il due TO
him that this expression should he made public in
the nsidous ISLANDERS which propagaled by the
government paper and that the State Of which he
able representative should I've deceived by any false
representations.
Mr. NJ further felt that il due TO the good old North
State that her public here should be vndcaed against
aspersions touching purity and fidelity in oiceaspersons
unknown that State from the period OF her colonial history
eectng either the judicial emine legislative integrity
Errors both she and her may have fallen no but the
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