Baton-Rouge gazette. [volume] (Baton-Rouge, La.) 1819-1856, 1848-10-14

During thg discussion on that important
bill, the sugar teflnefs Of the North wire
nutusrously and ably represented at Wash.
ington, and by the mUgt unremiHed and
constant attention, had finally succeeded
in getting he section In The Bill relative
10 Sugar, wotted in The most ingenious and
cunning manner, so as to completely meet
their own interest, though at tho sacrifice
Of the whole sugar culture on tho South.
The section read IN The following man,
ner,
"Seetion 0. First, on taw sugars (c0n.
monty called brown sunar,) not advanced
beyond IT, raw state by etayibg, boiling,
clarifying, Or other process, and on tie
syrup Of sugar or sugar cane, two and "a
half cents per pound. On white sugar,
Commonly called elayed sugar. when
advanced beyond The raw state, BY eiayjng
boiling, clarifying Of other process, and
not yet refined, four cents per pound.
A cursofy persual Of this section would
convey The idea that ii covered all kinds 81
sugar, whereas IT embraces no kind III
ctayed sugar, except Hhitc, and does not
include the bromn ctayed sugar which forms
The principal portion Of the crop Of Cuba.
That description wanld In consequence
have CONS in, under tho non.cnumeraked
articles, al d duty 81 tgeHty per cent all
parlorem, which would have been sq6al 10
about half a cent per pound. The disco
very was lot made until The bill was In
lis last stage In tie House, and after both
patties had come 10 the resolution not
again to open the debate, but 10 pass or
reject the bill as It then stood. The dam.
ger, therefore, wa most imminent.
Mr.. EDMUDD ]. F~tasTALL, Of this city
who was then NJ Washington, wfots d
note on the subject, and SEM 1t into the
House, to the late Gov. WmtTH, then the
representative from this district, which
note Gov. WH1rB placed 81 once In the
hands Of the chairman of tbs Finanso
Committee, WILLARD FILLMORE.
whilst no was actually on The floor Of The
House carrying..throngh the bill, section
| by section, on lis final reading. Mr.. FIJI.
LNoRE was startled at The discovery, the
importance Of which, 10 the Sugar Planners
he at nee saw, and fully appreciated.
But what was to be- done1 No ftffheF
debate wa TO be permitted no alteration
10 be allowedl The bhl was to pass Or to
be rejected as II was; that too, ns fast ~
the different sections could be- reads and
the votg taken on each separately, The
previous sections having been pissed, tho
sugar section then came up In It's order,
when MIR. FILLMORE rose and asked per-
mission Of the house TO make q verbal
correction by striking oalt The word "a0bAe''
and inserting In the place Of IL "on osheg,t'
which was adopted by tho House without
d single observation, and thus fixed tho
duty at foHr cents upon all Ill claved Sugar
br0cn as we'll as Wbte. In one AOyr utter
yards The bin had gone through as third
realizing, IRA passed by tie House and sent
10 The SenaaeN Il was . death blow ~
The hopes Of the Refners, who bad the
tables completely turned upon them by
The unexpected md heavy duty Of lOtu cents
npon brown box Sugar. Their future
e1ertions were confined iogeNiug the rate
reduced TO ~ cents, In which they sue
ceeded IN the Senate, and 10 which The
| House acceded.
The refiners would have realized
magnificent fortunes bud they succeeded
in their plan, Ms The sarpe bill kaYe them
d drawback Of three and II quarter CENT
per pound on the expectation Of refined
sugar, which would have been made, from
these brown clayed Cuba sugars ON which
they would havs paid h duty Of onty haff
u cenE Had dis bin rosscd iii lis
original form The Sugar planter can lotm
some idea Of the ~rGfn0ns effect npon
| their interest, by The depressed rates as
which fhc article has been sold Under the
operation of the Tariff Of 1870, though Tho
duty under this latter, IL 80 much greater
sban the one from which they we're saved
III fs42 by Mr.. FILLHonEs But for his
prompt and successful action on that &C.
~casioo, The whole sugar planting iutersgt
Of Louisiana, would have been tftagIy
prostrated, and we age sure the sugar
planters Of the State, will always bear bin
in greafml remembersnce for It,
Mr.. FoasTAbL, who took snch ar active
| part in the affair, and for which he IL EMIT
led TO great credit and the warmest thank,
10 well and advantageously known to the
sugar planters Of Louisiana, and az We
believe he il at present in the city or at
his neighboring plantation, we confidently
appeal TO him for sbe correctness Of all we
have stated in connection with the affair
as we know be was ut the time. fully cogni.
can't Of all the facts Of the case.-Bugtan.
AMERICAN PRIsoNggs nv IRELAND
We learn, says The Baltimore Sun, from
an intelligent gentleman who has lately
come out from Ireland on a visit, that large
numbers Of American ~citizshs are pliso-
ners oftbe British authorities, on suspicion
ofbeing sympathisers in the late attempted
Irish rebellion. Most sgctheas were ar