The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1847-01-21

ry out, even after the circumstances of the
country had changed.
The measure was passed-to reduce the
revenue even below tie demands of peace
This could be proved by simple arithmetic
In order to obtain from the tariff Of 1915 the
same amount that the tariff of 1912 gave
there must be an importation of dutiable ar
tlcleS to the extent of146 million of dollars
Whether this would be the case let every one
Judge.
The Secretary without disturbing his the
DRY, might have recommended general adj
dition to the rates of duty on articles. In
the last war import duties were doubled
Then our commerce was cut up, Fortunate
ly this war left our commerce unobstructed
But the Secretary would not propose and did
not intend to propose, to look to commerce
as resource for an ample revenue.
Direct taxes had been spoken of. But he
could tell the gentlemen that, with a COM
merce of 12O millions consumed in the country
there was great source of revenue still I'M
touched, to which the people looked for all
the revenue. That source muStbc exhausted
before the people would submit to direct tao.
eS!
lie had no objection to an inquiry into the
expcdiency of diminishing duties. He liked
to see systems carried out. Let it be tried.
But all experience had shown that the rev.
enue was greatest when the rate Of duties
was highest. This experiment of raising al
a large revenue from low duties had been eX-
Ploded, He protested against this policy as
inconsistent with the prosecution Of the war
and tending to createa great national debt.
Nothing buta war in which our national
existence was involved would justify q reli- |
ancc upon loans for revenue.
This idea of free trade was bubble, as !
long as our revenue was derived from i'm
ports-ther could be no such thing. We |
might spread the amount of duties over a
greater or less number Of articles, but still !
commerce would not be entirely freed from
burdens
But free trade gentlemen propose to make
the basis Of their free trade national debt of
u hundred or two millions. The interest
mua be paid, and evW be pail from duties on
imports. This thing was to bend in 1913, to
q higher Tariff duties than we ever had
yet!
Oar course was every way anti-democratic
inconsistent with the prosecution of the war,
and utterly destructive Of the system of low
duties.
[ would said Mr. Niles, propose to repeal the
geSt'ictiOe clauses ofMe Sub Treasury, and in
crease the rate Of duties on all or certain ar
ticlcs.
Mr. Beverly johnson proposed an addition
al inquiry, whether tho price Of the articles
would be increased by the augmentations of
duties, and to what extent.
All the amendments suggested were adopt
ell and the resolution was agreed to.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION IN Iowa.
The action of the Legislature of Iowa, now
a State Of the Union, as the election of two s
United States Senators is to be made, is look
cd to with no little anxiety, especially by the {
Locotocos, who in times p st have held entire
control over that body. 1t is doubtless with {
ia the recollection of all, that the " Official
Organ" here, months agoset down the return ,
OF Locotoco Senators from Iowa as a question |
beyond dispute. The election returns PROV {
ed however, that the people, who have as yet {
some say IN these matters, were unwilling TO !
confirm these pretensions. A Legislature was c
chosen altogether untractable, in which the f
'Fhigs, with three Independent Democrats /
two in the House and one in the Senate a
have the power to do whateverthey will, In =
this condition of things, in order to make 7
good the assumptions of the Organ" it be- c
came necessary to use other than honest T.
means, ard adopt another rule than that Of
political integrity. Overtures were there o
tore made to Mr. Nelson King, Wing mem a
Der OF the House from the county of Keokuk, b
to desert his friends and vote for the Demo il
cratic Senators and, to accomplish this,prom- a
lSes Of reward, present and remote, were most
lavishly made to him. The principal agent Il
IN this most corrupt attempt to defeat the t.
will of the people, by destroying the purity u
of their Legislature, is represented to have a
been Mr. S. I. Marshall, of Lee county, to v
whom, it seems, active "aid and comfort" c
were given by a certain Mr. Stott and GOV v
ernmcnt agent By the name Of IIaight. This a
latter parsonage, we have reason to believes e
in the employment Of the Secretary of the ii
Treasury, under what law we know not, ut 0
live dollars day,to detect countereiters and
others guilty Of offences against the United a
States. Whether his recent manifestation "
Of tealty to the powers that be" falls within tt
the sphere of his secret agency we leave an
intelligent public to determine. t,
We rejoice to know that the whole matter l.
is undergoing strict investigation, and can t,
only regret that the House has no power to
punish the actors in this most nefarious tran r.
saction Gone Of them, Mr. Marshall, is in Gus e
tody) as they deserve. The remarks of Mr. a
King, on bringing the subject before the ii
House, which are hereto subjoined, will ena, ii
bic our readers to form proper estimate of I
the act, and those engaged in it. 1t is only D
necessary to add that Mcssrs Clifton and Con- a
lee, Independent democrats, from Lee county, a
stated to the House that similar efforts had G
been malo to bride Unconstitutional Intel II
iigencer. t,
SALT. 1t may not have been forgotten by !,
the readers Of this paper that some time last u
Summer we were abused, most numerically, a
by some of the Free Trade papers, because t1
we dared to doubt that SALT had not been u
materially reduced in price to the consumer ST
by the neC Tariff. But now that the British a
Bill is in operation, what is the result? Why t'
just this, that the salt rakers at Turks Island