Staunton spectator, and general advertiser. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 183?-1849, 1848-05-31
AWFUL CALAMITY-A MEMBER OF
CONGRESS STRUCK DUMB.

I'll
CONGRESS STRUCK DUMB.
The Democracy Of the Accomac District will be
In sack cloth and ashes when they learn that their
Representative in Congress will no longer be able
TO use his tongue in that body. In the course of
debate the other day thequantity ofexports from
this country under high and low Tariffs, the follow
ing passed between Messrs. Stewart and Bayly:
Mr.. Stewart. advertng to the declaration of Mr..
Dayiy OF his intention to correct certain mistakes
which he Mr.. S. had made some time apo. said
the gentleman from North Carolina (NIr McKay)
| had said at the tme-some four or five months auo
that these mistakes should be corrected PROMPTLY
but they had not heard one word of the printed cor
rectlon up to this time.
The gentleman from Virginia had said that we
exported more agricultural products under low
than under high tariff. Under four years of the
highest tariff we had had we had exported more to
great Britain, hundred times, than we had done
Tor four years under a low tariff
MIR. Bayly beg leave to take issue with the
Mr.. Stewart. thank you. make that state
ment, and challenge any gentleman to controyert it
| If he can.
Mr.. Bayly. If the gentleman will take anv ne.
Rod of four consecutive years. do not mean tia,
ne may run over the whole period of twenty or thir-
" years, and select year here and there to make
up four years of high tariff; but let the gentleman
select any cycle Of four years under high pro,ec
| tive tariff
Mr. Stewart. Four consecutive years?
| MIR. Bayly. -Four consecutive wears
MIR. Stewart. tako four years Of the tariff ~
1873 and four years Of the lowest part of the com
promise act.
Mr.. Bayly. Then understand, and this House
understands, the issue between the gentleman and
myself, and we will decide it by the document
lie states he will take four consecutive wears under
high tariff and will show that the exports Of arri-
cultural products were greater than under any four
years OF low tariff which may select If the gen
tleman convicts me of an error, will agree never
10 make another assertion in this House.
Mr.. Bayy, it will be seen, pledges himself on con-
vIction of error "never to make another assertion in
the House,
In the last National lntelligencer, Mr.. Stewart
does convict MIR. Bayly of error, as the following
article will show:
TO THE EDITORS.
Gentlemen AT the suggestion of Mr. Mckay.
OF North Carolina, have to request YOU TO correct
your report OF yesterdays debate in the following
sentence:
"Mr. Stewart, adverting to the declaration Of Mr.
bayiy o his Intention to correct certain mistakes
which he Mr. ) had made some time auo. said
tne gentleman from North Carolina (Mr Mckay
mad said at the iime-some four or five months ano
that these mistakes should be corrected promptly
but they had not heard word of the printed cor
rection up TO this time'
1t was not MIR. Mckay but Mr. Venable, of N.
Carolina. who had pledged himself that MIR. S %
speech delivered more than four months since. sbould
be fully and promptly answered. | did not saw
That no printed correction had been given but that
no answer had been given by that gentleman, OF
any one else IN the House, in the Union or any
other public print
There Is another error requiring correction in the
following paragraph:
'Mr Stewart said, from a statement which ,r,s
published in the Union last Friday or Saturday il
appeared that taking the export of breadstus flour
ana wheat TO England and Ireland during the last
tiee months, and surprising them for the next three
10 DC on the same average, we would have export
ed to Great Britain this whole year not one fifth
e'h part OF the amount we exported last year. He
naa that statement on the authority of the Union
he asked the gentleman from Virginia if he denied
n2
"Mr. Bayly replied that he denied no such pro-
! position"
The declaration was sone tenth part not one ff-
tieth.
Also. in this sentence there is another error:
MIR. Stewart observed that the gentleman had said
that the expectation of corn TO Great Britain this
year was two million bushels he asked him whe-
Their last year the expectation of corn did not exceed
fourteen million bushels?
"Mr. Bayly replied it did,"
This ought TO read fourteen millions of dollars
worth, and not ID 100000 of bushels.
Mr.. Bayly insisted thatt the Secretary of the Trea-
sury was right in saying that we always exported
more breadstufls under low than under high tariffs.
said that we had exported a hundred times more
to Great Britain during the four years of the tariff
of 1928 (the highest we had) than we did I'M
der the low duties Of the compromise bill. This
Mr. Bayly peremptorily denied and challenged the
production of the evidence. Here is is from the Of
fetal reports:
gears under the high a gears under the lo,o
tariff Of 1928 tarif-comprou,is bin
Exports OF Dreadstuffs TO Exports of breadstufs to
Great Britain. Great Britain