New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1850-02-01

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both ends of the Capitol in principle and detail
| exceedingly unjust The law Ia fair enough, but
gentlemen seem ndispOsed TO allow It's application
| la practice
refer you, however,, to the GLOBE. Tbs ayes
and noes Of yesterday were duly forwarded
Revenue Collection salaries -sinvery-C oins
and CurreBcy-PGblic Lands-Trade with
Canada-The Caleb Griraykaw.
C,r 81 The TrbuBe WA,susros wedles5-}. Jan ~
When ] came back from Bans Telegraph
Office, Mr. BArLY. Chairman OF Committee on
Ways aud Means--a stout, good Rockingham, with
an open countcuance IN the prime of life aud who
can be- heard all over the House ian admirable
qualification, especially where any OF 5 auditors
that arc not sharp of hearing have votes was
trying to prove that the United States pay m
enormous sum annually for collecting the revenue
This ia true enough To pay nine or ten dollars
Tor every hundred Charlottesville two-thirds OF
the whole Customs duties land other mpostsl are
collected at your port is evidently unjust to the
the country Mr.. BAYLY said that if YOU take
England alone, the collection of the duties costs
less than per cen,.-if you add Scotland 81 per
cent--while this bill the Act OF Sd March last
allows to per cent You, sir, well know thai.
years ago | proved in the most plain and cor.
vincing way. that a very large proportion OF
the charges for collection of the customs rev
enue in the United States are mere pretox
ior paving certain sums of money monthly to a
variety OF persons who may have rendered pocu
liar services TO the Government or its officers
which cannot otherwise be levied from the Repub
lie. You pay said Mr.. BArLrl the oarsmen al
New York 5000 while in other ports they get not
one half of it. You pay the Collector OF New.fork
&C. 400, but the State gives Its Chiei Justice onl
$4,000
THE Collector of New.York well deserves $4,000
No man in America, il he acts ABLY, HONESTLY
and INDEfATIoABLY, has harder task 10 perform
Mr. RAYLr said that good Collector could be got
at $4,000 Nonsense Messrs. Swartwout and
Hoyt got, between them. about $50 years salary
Collector at $1,000 year. and they have not
disgorged penny since. The law still sends the
petty pilierer to Blackwelrs Island, but wha, has
il done in the way OF example 10 embezzling Col
loctors--men who received the public money By
the hundred thousand Gy, by the million, aud
never accounted, though sworn to do so What
has been done with their Texas lands or solvent
securities Nothing :! Mr.. BAYLY told the House
that the Collector oiPhlsdephia gets $4,000, while
the Chief Justice OF Pennsylvania receives but
$4,000 IL may be SO. but the duties OF the Colec.
tor there are by far the most arduous and onerous
that Of his brother officer at Newiork are infinite
~ more 60 As the patronage OF which Mr. BAfLf
men TO take the Office 1t Is the most annoying and
perplexing part OF the superior officers duties 70
dscide between the conflicting claims to public EN-
ployment Of perhaps 10000 men, when only 800 Of
them can be employed. lat prices which they could
not earn in private life
Mr. BAYIr described the coast Of tho Unitei
Kingdom as being more extensive than our Allan
tic frontier, considering its Englandsl proximity
to France, Holland. Belgium, &c. and sdverted 10
the comparatively high tariff levied in Britain.
Mr. BROOKS OF n. y remarked that Mr. BaYLl
was measuring Britain in one way including every
bend and inlet, while he was taking straight line
for the Atlantic coast Maine, it was true, had but
800 miles Of seacoast in straight line, but 4 the
indentations were included las Mr.. BAYLI had
done in his British measurement Maine had a sea
board frontier of LOO miles to be watched over 70
prevent smuggling
Mr. BROOKS speaks with great cleamcss ans
fuency-his elocution is deliberate, and his msn.
ner impressive. While the discussion was soing
on the House and galleries were two thirds raj or
whereabouts Mr.. BAYLI concluded his remarks.
and was followed by
Mr.. BROWN OF Miss. ian energetic Southern gen
sleman, probably s. years old who considered that
the ties that had bound the Union together were
being broken-that a crusade had been got up
AZ ainst the institutions OF the SOuth-thst the Wi
mot Provso was Improperly press od-that, In has
opinion Sldrcrs great moral, cfrii polst'cal
and rsligious NcSsiRg but that he did DOT seek to
press that opinion upon others-thai the Southern
slave stands on an elevation which the African Ia
his own native Jungle cannot reach--thst he Is at
ted IN many instances, 10 become good member
O. any CHRISTIAN church-,hat Southern property IL
Slaves is worth 81 100 600 OQo II think that III
that the North are invading Southern rishts-thst
the South would 20 out ol the Union rather than
lose their right 70 tie free OF their propery-thai
the South export 10 foreign countries, 10 the vsae
of 900 year. IN rice tobacco and cotton
and that without these exports, he asked now
could the Union pay .or It's vast imports
Mr.. BROWN said great deal more about the
Slavery question but what II had to do with the
L. 5 Custom Houses and the salaries ., our Rev
enue Collectors, l did not very clearly perceive
He described the Californisns % no great advan
! tsge, and the House. having discussed Mileage.
| and the cost Of Collecting the Revenue. and come
10 20 fasl conclusion on either question: adjourned
about } Pm.
memorisl was presented, in the Senate, by Mr..
DICKINSON, praying that accounts msy be ordered
BY law 10 be kept in dollars and cents instead OF
shihnss and pence. so that 1niior nifty may prevail
and the NewY shinings and sixpences give
place to dimes and halt dimes Hslf-cents, too. II
copper, shoald be coined; many small dealers
make a great deal Of money by paying POOR people
dine aud two cents for shilling, which Is loss
OF Der cent on the dollar. Millions OF dollars
an rroye it-sre Loss 70 the humber classes by the
shsardties Of the silver currency and the want q
halfcents. which are the eQaivs'snt Of English
iarthines
In the Senate. today. Gen Houston proposed tC
allow to citizens not holding other lands. 100 acres
public land without purchase This was ~ amend
ment to Mr. SKwAKDs plan. Mr., MoRets ssid
ironically. suppose. the time might come N wh,ei
he would agree 70 grant 32o acres and wsges DC
sides Mr SEWARD explained his bah IN isvor Q
the Hungarian exiles which Mr.. DoreLAss thou ~
too partial to foreigners. Mr. d. introduced oii
for the free navigation Of the S. Lawrence and re
ciprocsl trade with Canada. Gen Cas- wsssad ina
tie resolution Seward had oonse up Hsdhe tCass
offered these propositions be would have been ae
nounced a. the greatest OF denagoguss BY 10
Wh;s pspsrs. NJ. DApexR saia hat CopFes