Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, IA [i.e. Ind.]) 1839-1854, 1847-03-09

Correspondence Of Tie Bati0t9fe Patrto'.
Washington, Feb, p, l5dI.

the little Tariff bill.
In all the confusion, however, there vas much
method. The Wings, who, party, ash -
have a whole and wholesome Tariff bill passed
or none, had their wishes grafGsd by the defeat
Of such a two-penny affair, and the opponents 0!
the tax on tea and coffee, who Administration
mon. had their triumph in the success Of their
one. idea pe-resistancc 70 the t.tx'
But after all, allow me 10 say, the wings dli
not manage the matter with tIle most coHsam-
mate adroitness. They should have defeated, a.
they could have done, while the House was III
committee OF the whole, the adoption Of Dir.
Hamlin's substitute for tie bill reported hy t!ls
Ways and Means Committee The Items 70 tax
tea and coffee and graduate the price Of the pub
lic lands, having been struck out Of TIL orig
nal bill, in committee Of the whole, the bi'i
should have been agreed upon, when the COM
mittee would have risen and reported i with
those two anne ndments to the Iion5e. Then Tire
question would have come up in tic IIouss, sa ~
yea an! nay vote, .'.5hall these amendments b.
concurrcd mr. The country coula thereby
have seen, in black and white, tct3 were for taN-
ing tea and coffee, and who were fot such grad
untion Of the price Of thu public anis as tha LII
proposed-for the question woula have lcen III
vided.
Bu, instead OF this, tie tea and coffee tar an@
the land graduation clause were atFue@ out q
Mr.. Hamlin's substitute, ia committee o. the
whole, and then the substitute adopted at! re-
ported to the House for is acton hts br"dst't
the House to Il VOTE, not on the TIA AMI co.i3 tax
nor on the land graduation clun*e, but Oh the g.
doption Of the substitute as amended. 20 no
body can tell. by the yeas and nays, 'e''3 were Ter
taxing tea and coffee and srho were feE the graz
nation. The matter ought to have been better
managed
When the vote Of the Hoaae adopting tie
substitute was announced t. he yeas l9' ana
nays .O3 Mr. Cummins Of Ohio, who certainty
could hardly have known the object hc was dri-
wing at. moved reconsideration Of the vote,
md on this motion tile yeas AMI nays were or
dcrea. From the fact that Mr.. Cunimins voted
apainst his own motion, it is presumed he
though, The bill had passed, and he would, as
friends of measures passed after a hard struggle
sometimes do, move a reconsideration Of me vote
as a clincher-as u motion to reconsider once lost
cannot again be made
Be this as it may-that H. BE his opinion what
il may-the vote was very close ana tight one.
Tho Clerk showed it BY the slow ana careful
members and announced the side which they
voted! 1t looked like tic. One h4ndraa ana
fou, 10 one hundred ant fur. Mr., Hopkins was
temporarily in the Chair. lie looked like abli-
eating. The Speakers casting vote would BE-
wantcd7 Mr.. Speaker Davis made his appear
ancc, looking taller aud more consequential than
over. lie walked down the aisle with porty
front. All eyes and two hundred ana fifty sPer-
maceti candles were shining upon hiui. The i1te
of tho GREAT G4ie Tariff ball rested rim him,
with its ent,ilnents, tho tax on tea and cot.@e,
the three millions 10 pay to santa Anna, an t's
hopes Of the Administration. What notnen-
,ous moment! He walked do~n tn aisic and
then assembled 10 the Speakers Chatr! = BREATH
less moments pause ensues. ona hHtffe1 "ta
four-one hundred AMI 5our' voice cries out
'.Mr. billiard has not voted Mr. lislllarl
assented to the fact, ana signitiei his desire 70
vote! Here was rovulsion Of things! y NIGH
" rcvulsion. Not with Mr.. Speaker Dayi; nor,
but with Mr. Hilliard, Of Alabama. rested tie
fate Of the bill, He gave the vote. lie voted
NO, and swelled the negatives 70 hundred
and free. 50 the vote adopting the substitute
was not reconsIered Had it been, the substi-
tute would have been rejected, and then the orig
NAL bill of the Ways and Means Committee,
with the coffee and tea tax and tho graduation
feature, would have come up for vote on the
whole in lump, and probably wond have pass
cd, by means OF the party screws and drills. l
know Of one member from Ilinois-but know
not how many othcrs-who was drilled and teas
ed unme rcifully on the subject, the matter
stood.
But the substitute adopted, AM as i did
not suit ma ority of the House BY long shot
it was put to vote AMI rejected; yeas =, nays
1876. So ends tie penny Tariff pro5ect!-
The defeat of the three million bill. ii IS predic-
ted, will follow. Ii for no other reason, the de- /
feat of this bill TO raise the money-thc two-pen-
ny affair was designed 70 raise just three millions
would, it is asserted, be sufficient
The amendment Of the House. t. the sapple
entail army bill for more Generals, authorizing
Mr. Polk to appoint Col. Benton General W.
O. Butler, or any body else, 10 the connanl-in
chief of the military forces Of ii, oouatry, viii
not pass the Senate If the two Senators from
Florida ana the two from South Carolina vote a
ganst it. Should It pass and the nomination he
given to Col. Benton, courtesy viii carry the
nomination through the Senate Of course
The correspondence between Gov Marcy AMI
Gov. Wright, about Steyensoa's aliforula Regi- i
ment, recently Published. is decidedly rich.--
Gov. Marcy's explanation IS smooth As oil
hand "a, smoothing over things | viii give one