Weekly miners' express. (DuBuque, Iowa) 184?-1849, 1849-01-30

Requesting our Senators and Repre-
sentetlves in Congress to procure an ap-
preparation to pay the citizens Of Iowa
for services rendered in the Missouri
war. ....,... ..-.......... ..f.,.,ol
For mail route from Prairie du Chen
to Fort Atkinson. .''. '@ wv
For the donation Of land for the i'm
provement Of Muscatine Island. 2at
For the establishment Of land office
at Fort Des Moines ,.....t. ....u.....
Appointing an agent to pay the inter-
est on the Iowa State Stock. l
Requiring the Secretary Of State to
furnish the counties Of Warren and Mad
ison with copies of the revised statutes
and o.her laws of this State. ...
For an appropriation Of money or land
for the improvement Of Maquoketa river.
Fora grant Of land from Congress.
In relation to change Of mail convey
ance.
For a mail route from Bellevue. in
Jackson county, to independence, in Blu
chanan county. :.
Relative to the claim of John Taylor as
commissioner 10 locate the seat of gov
eminent.
Asking change Of mail conveyance
and extension Of mail route.
In relation to printing the acts and
joint resolutions Of the present session Of
the General Assembly.
Presenting sword 10 Capt. B. S. Rob-
berts.
Relative to the nett proceeds arising
from the sale Of land in Iowa.
Asking grant Of land to aid IN the con-
structon of the building Of branch of
the State University al Fairfield.
Preamble and joint resolution asking
Congress for donation of land to con-
s,ruct military road from the Missis-
sippi TO the Missouri river.
asking grant Of land for the improve
ment Of The Wapsipinicon river.
OF thanks to Capt. B. S. Roberts.
Also eight mail route joint resolutions.
MEMORIALS.
Memorial to Congress for an increase
Of mail facilities.
For Marine hospital on Rock Island.
For the construction Of the act Of Con-
gress appropriating lands for the inn
provement Of the Des Moines river.
For an appropriation of land TO i'm
prove the Iowa river.
Asking an increase Of the pension Of
Isaac w. Griffith.
Memorial and joint resolutions to Con-
gress for the establishment Of military
posts.
To the Legislature Of the State Of
Wisconsin.
To Congress for an appropriation Of
land to improve Skunk river.
From the Burlington State Gazette.
BREADsTUFFs AND PROVISIONS.
The aggregate value Of brcadstufts anc
provisions exported during the past yea
Q34s) is reported a! $37,472.751. Thi
is more than twice as much as was ex
ported during any one year under the ia
riff Of 1912.
The total aggregate value Of our ex
ports provisions and breadsluffs) for thu
three years during which the present ia
riff has been in operation-l346. 1847
,e4o-is $780, 5,7eo, agains, l45,9l7
697 for the three preceding years, unde
the wing tariff Of 1912.
But this great increase in the expor
} trade Of the farming interests, we have
been told, and may be !old again, is main
> ly, if not entirely, attributable to the ia
mine in Europe. Undoubtedly the fail
ure Of the crops in 1847 greatly aug
mented the demand for American fou
and American provisions during tina
year; but there was no such cause TO or
crate in 1916, and none the past year
yet the exports of 1916 exceed those O
1874, Qhe highest year under the viii
tariff) by nearly $50, 0CO, 900, while thos
Of l846 are greater in value by $4,000
900 than the exports of any year prev
:, Gus to the enactmen: of the present tariff
Does not this prove that the larmin!
and grazing States are interested in ad
herring to the present just and equitabh
revenue tariff, which it is the design o
; the wings to overthrow the moment the,
have the power 10 do SO? Once adopt tn
restrictive and anti-commercial policy O
the protectionists, ard where are the far
mers of the West to look for market 70
their surplus products? These will pro
= baby never be less in value than during
the last year, and will annually increase
but take the aggregate Of the shipment
Of 1848, which, as before stated, is 1877,
472,75l. The home market, SO much
Wanted Of, is already supplied, and it il
worse than folly to petend that it car
be so enlarged by encouraging and ex
tending manufactures as TO consume thi.
immense surplus Of provisions. A for
eign outlet, then, we must have, for ou
flour, pork, beef, lard, &C., else the agri
cultural interests Of the country mus
languish and decay; and this outlet, j
may taken for granted, can only be Sc
cured by the adoption Of liberal CONNER
cial regulations on our part, based on ;
free interchange Of commodities IF w
refuse TO buy Of Europe we cannot ex