The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1848-03-10
2 An Instructive al,mp.. OF the WING pol,,y.

u'eS WI Hahploh, OF rttsbufg, made avowal as fol
lows OF the settled purpose OF his party to link together
their two cherished Objects of high protective tariff and
gigantic and unconstitutional system of internal i'm
provements 1t viii be from Mr. Hampton's state
men mat the now undsgused policy of the wings is 10
wg money from The producing classes of the country
by renewal of the nefarous taxes imposed by the TART;
Oh 1872 IN order to secure surplus fund be conuptv
expended, IN violation of the constitution in buyinc nm
local votes IN various sections under the specous pre-
tence OF making harbo and clearing out rivers bv the
general government In defiance of State sovereignty and
jurisdiction
we copy from the congressional report of this morn
ng's National ntelli gencer. Mr. Wentworths motion
10 refer 10 the COMMITTEE on Commerce the Presidents
late veto message upon the internal Improvement bill
coming up
| "Mr. HAMPTON, of Pennsylvania, who had the floor
rom day long since passed, when the subject war
last before the House, commenced by observing that
prior 10 taking up the subject which he intended TO
discuss al the present ume it might be inappro-
pirate TO submit lew remarks-and they should be
very few-on subject intimately connected ,oith the
making If appropriations for the improvement of rvers
asd mar bors He referred TO the question of the tariff
He sho aid go fully into the discussion of thar
question: because it had been already ably discussed by
several gentlemen this foo and particularly by his col
leag (Mr Stewart understood by the asion) But
the district which he had the honor represent on this
ueor deeply interested in the question the protection
or American labor and American capital They believe
that Notwithstanding the boosted benefits of the tariff OF
1886 the od-fashioned American wing tariff of 1912 was
best calculated to promote their interest and the
the whole country and, accordingly a recent county
conpen tion held in the county of ANgeny resolutions ,oere
passed calling on Congress TO repeal the tariff of 1876
store the tariff Of 1872 He regretted that he had
paper before him containing those resolutions for he should
cheerfuy submit them the consideration the House
He ashamed of the contents of those resolutions
for he cheerfuy and cordially concurred with the
A.
ought TO be repealed and the tariff of 1912 restored and he
hoped the appropriate ioo,d bring in bill for that
purpose, aud that the House ,cod be brought to direct pote
upon it in short time
"Alr BEDNoER and said the question: as he under
stood it, the message of the President in rea
ton to the Improvement of rivers aud harbors gem
tleraan discussing the tariff Now, he asked if the
gentleman in order?
s.The SPEAKER understood say that the gentleman
ieas not out of order.
'Mr HAMPTON said, if they proceeded to make appropyia
tons for the improvement of rivers and harbors coud be
necessary to look 10 the Dhenc the make the
expenditures for that purpose be derived That there
fore, question affecting the tariff, the
ating and he should proceed being perfectly
order, express his opinion that the tariff of lS21f
substituted for the act Of 1885, oomd furnish ample
means for the purpose"
This is plain speaking. "Gve us (say the whigs) the
black tar tac of money, and an internal i'm
provement scheme upon which to spend it. The two
parts of one and the same wing policyw A little while
ago, in discussing this veto message wing gentle
thought it necessary far to cloak their designs as
to say hathey wanted internal Improvement bill only
as means OF expendng any surplus which might be
found in the treasury We reminded them the time of
the large expenditures needed to sustain the character of
the country in the war, and to speedy peace
and of the loans already negotiated and those est
atod assfiIln for We
the surplus should to the treasury before the wings
needed trouble themselves about wild schemes for its
expenditure But in the present avowa of their policy,
the wings strike higher key and boldly proclaim that if
they have their way in the matter, they yei
grind the people down again with the old, odious, and
repudiated taxation, in order to raise money to be
pended in local political jobbing.
Mr. Hampton, however, attempts to represent the peo
pie of Pennsylvania believing that the tariff of 1912 is
great blessing per se and that ought be restored
in place of the tariff of 1916 This "dodge" will not do
The country has very different, and very recent and
very conclusive information that subject The egh-
teen thousand democratic majority in the last election of
the old Keystone State speaks very different language
and registers its great verdict fully in favor of the tariff
of 1886 The strong resolution in favor of that measure
adopted by reclamation at the late Harrisburg convention
goes directly and irreutably to the same point
And this being in Pennsylvania how is it with this
doctrine OF Mr. Hampton and the wings in other parts of
the Union, where Internal Improvements the corrupt
and unconstitutional wing plan claimed TO have
most popularity Is the Great West willing to take the
black tariff bill of s42 and internal improvement bill
together necessary parts of the pocy' Did even
the Chicago conventon-ura it was, and squirting
whigward as it did-did that convention dare to
that issue to the Wests Is the great State of
New York ready saddle upon itself the tariff of 1912
once MORE in order TO set the general government to
work at digging out harbors, and buying up political
parsans, under the of contractors and laborers on
an immense and wholly indefinite and indenable sys
tenn of public works not warranted contemplated by
the constitution Is the great agricultural interest any
where-certainy the basis interest of this country
willing again for such object to hamper and cramp
commerce by the olious restrictions of 1Si2 and thus
throw away, great measure the foreign market just
opened to its eeming productive powers, and which,
under the wise and just tariff legislation of 1885, has just
brought them in so rich and golden harvest Is the
agriculture of the country ready TO make this vast sacr
fce in order that the wings Of Congress may by such
TAXATION scrape together money enough to scoop out
harbors and rivers at their good pleasure, and make of
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