The Mississippi Creole. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1841-1851, 1847-01-23
The Tax ON Tea and Cofee.

The following are the yeas and nays on tht
resolution offered in the House of Represents
tives, by Mr.. Wentworth, Of Illinois, declar
ing ssihat it is mex pedient to levy any duty 81
tea and Coffee" vs.
YEAs-Messrs. Abbott, Anderson, Arnold
Barringer, Bell, Benton, James Black, Blanch-
ard, Brink erhof, Brodhead, Milton Brown, Buff
6ngton, VIM. w. Campbell, Carroll, Cathcart
Cooke, CoIlamer, Cranston, Crozier, Garrett
Davis, Deano, De Mott, Dillingham;, Dix IN,
Dockery, Dunlap, Ellsworth, Erdmas, John H
Ewing, Foster, Fries, Garvin, Gentry, Gddings
Graham, Order, Grnnell, Grover, Hamlin,
Hale, Harper, Hastings, Henly, billiard, Hoge,
John w. Houston, Hough, S D. Hubbard, Hud-
son, Hungerford, Washington Hunt, sJoseph R.
Ingersoll, Jenkins, James H Johnson, Joseph
Johnson, Andrew Johnson, Seaborn Jones,
Kennedy, Daniel P. King, Preston King, Leib,
Levin, Lewis, Long, Lumpkin, McClelland, J..
]. Mcdowell, James Mcdowell, McGaughey,
McHenry, McIlvaine, Marsh, Moseley, Moul-
ton, Eiven, No ris, Perrill, Perry, Pollock,
Ramsey, Rathbun, Relic, Ripley, Julius Rock
well, Root, Runk, Sawtelle, Sawyer, Scammon,
Severance, Schenck, Truman Smith, Albert
Smith, Thomas Smith, Caleb B. Smith, Stark
weather, st John, Strohm, Strong, Thbodeaux,
Thomasson, Benjamin Thompson, Tibbatts,
Tilden, Trumbo, Vance, Vinton, Wentworth,
Wheaton, White, Williams, Wilmot, Winthrop,
Wright, Yos--ll5. e..,s~-v
NAYS = Messrs. Stephen Adams, Bayly,
.Biggs, Bowdon, Bowlin, Boyd, VIM. G. Brown,
Burt, Reuben Chapman, Chase, Clarke, Cobb,
Collin, Cottrell, Cull"m, Cunningham, Dargan,
Douglass, Ficklin, Giles, Goodyear, Gordon,
HARRISON, Harmanson, Edmund w. Hubbard,
Isaac E. Holmes, G. s. Houston. Hunter, G. W.
Jones, Lawrence, Leake, La sere, Lyon, Nc
Clernard, Mckay, Barclay Martin, Morse, Pa
IRISH, Payne, Reid, Roberts, Leonard H. Sims,
Simpson, Stanton, Jacob Thompson, Toombs,
Tredway, Woodward-48.
So the resolution was agreed to, and the
House of Representatives have declared it in
expedient to levy duty on tea and coffee.
On this action of the House, the National
Intelligencer remarks as follows:
This vote must, under all the circumstances,
be considered as the answer of the House to
the urgent instance Of the Secretary of the
Treasury addressed to the Committee of WAYS
and Means, and made public and seconded by
the government paper, to lay these identical
taxes, as being indispensable to the Obtaining
of my further loan for the support Of the Gov
eminent. The Administration has very PLAIN
ly disclosed the necessities of the Treasury,
with suggestion Of the only means by which,
in it's opinion, they can be met. The House
of Representatives refuses to vote the necessa-
ny supplies: refuses before the question is tor
tsally put to it, declaring in advance it's deter
mination not to tax the people in the manner
and form proposed by the Executive. We
have never before witnessed just such crisis
in public affairs; and, IL the House adhere to
its determination, 90 far as 20 refuse 10 lay any
productive taxes, we do not see
what is 20 prevent the bankruptcy or the Trea-
sury, il the Administration itself be not bro
ken to pieces.
It may be, however, that, after having TINS
s;urdily shown its want Of confidence in the 7