The daily union. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1845-1857, 1851-03-06

It's bearings and that e committee have been
in favor OF its adoption Now. is there any gfoand for
fchargnx nconsderate action and rash and hasy
tioa in regard to this measurei BY no means Bot J
shall not go INTO the merits OF this matter believing thai
they have already been gone into sufficiently upon one
side or The other Having examined rs deliberately al
least my friend from South Carolina am prepared to
vote upon II and hope we shall take the question upon
| the proposition very soon. ey -a
question whether he has read this bill or not
lLsugh,sr ! know he will be candid
Mr. fooIE. have no hesitation IN saying lhat
have read every Important bill in the Senate and deem
II my duty to do 80 soon they are printed
Mr.. BUTLER. But have you read this
Mr.. FOOTE. Certainly.
| Mr UNDERWOOD. This bill comes from the Com
nttee on Commerce. That committee is composed OF
highly lalened and respectable senators in this body
but must be permitted 10 say that there is great deal
that depends upon locality in this world and these gem
tlemen have been seeeted-and rightly ioo--ln conse
quence OF their position being generally in the commer
cial States Their intercourse is with commercial men,
aud their feelings and opinions influenced,
presume, IRON that intercourse and association II 80
happens, Mr. President. that live in central region
of he country No Underwater washes the shore OF the
State spressnt and the same may be said q three out
OF i've 81 The States of the West But we have, notwith
standing some very important, commercial points N the
IWest--sorhe growing points, that destined think,
to become OF Importance 10 the United States than
many OF the points the seacoas But, as was about
to remark, no tide water washes the shores OF my
State The people of Kentucky agricultural peo-
pie mainly. We cultivate tobacco, and we raise hogs
We raise great many articles that enter into the com
articles Now, sir, whom will this measure affect wiz
it reduce feghts if pass this bi Will il make such
redaction that my constituents Will feel u upon the
enhanced price of their pork tobacco, aud other articles
which they send to market! Will Tennessee--will Ala
bama feel in the enhanced price OF their cotton! VIII
reghts come down in proportion as you relieve the ship
those that interested III the navigation OF
the ocean Have they fixed their tariff OF freights
heretofore taking into view all the Liabilities which the
law imposes upon ihem And have we mol been paying
to thus most prosperous interest perhaps IN the country
in times past, that indemnify which sufficient to guard
| against all those liabilitiess
Now, sir. the first section OF this bill to strike
directly at those agricultural interests which feel my
self peculiarly representing Now, should like before
bill is 10 be passed by which practice OF sixty years
standing "a practice which has obtained ever since the
government went into operation) is to be changed-l
should like TO be well informed to how It IS TO affect
the great agricultural interests OF the country while we
are thus bene6,ng the mercantile interests Can It bs
shown that lreIghts will come down II seems 10 me
that under the existing laws these merchants have the
power of indennying themselves against all risks by
The insurance offices which have been alluded to- III it
requires these losses venture say
that they will be made up out OF the feghs charged
upon my constituents and the other producers Of the
country II shipowners have to pay, they will i9dem,
nifty themselves OF those who employ the vessels Ii
they do not they the most benevolent and acconno
dating OF gentlemen that be found ia the whole
countryand believe that Is not the peculiar charac
OF the mercantile interests. They generally
thrifty guarding against all Liabilities, and the in
suIance Offices provided for that very purpose.
Then the argument is that we cannot compete with our
great rival upon the ocean-with Great Bnainand that
we must pass the first section OF this bill In order to
enable US to enter into competition with her WE'LL sir,
il ought to be shown-bu that information has not yet
been given u.s. though II may be in the hands OF The
chairman Of the Committee Commerce. Mr.. HAMIIs
ought oaS 10 Be s that i s bill I into operation i
viii so operate reduce the freghts and enable
compete for the carrying trade with England; because
under the regulation which control the navigation oi
that country, they enabled 10 uHderwoTk
venture say that IN the commercial Transactions oil the
world it is the unieVokrss that most eeciualy ope-
thu of fha hnatn thaf IN
land carriage. the freyhs from the East TO the West,
that in railroads and steamboats,, and IN wagons from
Cumberland TO Wheeling, or to Brownsville, II is the
price which the employer has 10 pay that regulates the
matter in making the arrangements for employing Now,
want TO be informed that in consequence OF those ia
yorng laws passed by the Parliament OF Great Britain in
reference British navigation, the operation il so bene
fetal enable the British commercial marine to
derwork in great measure the American marine, and
ba, By the passage of this law will enable the freghts
10 down so that we can compete upon that basis
for eighs make the great controversy between CONNER.
cla nations You must show, in order to prove that we
then enter favoTaby nio that compeion that this
legislation is necessary bring down iregh,s For II
you cannot compete upon the score or economy IN the
transportation OF tobacco, cotton, Hour pork, and other
articles OF that SORT my word for IT, the man who will do
the work the cheapest and upon the best terms is en-
poyed, whether it is his national vessel or Tor
eign1, one. .,. ~.
matter. 1t seems me that have bill here OF the
most important character affecting the great agricultural
interests OF the country, and affecting these interests ad
ing .he commercial interests. the mercantile interests
and the shp-owners OF the couslry. not prepated
TO vote Tor II unless my way more clearly than now
do feel il my duty, therefore, TO throw out these OBJ
ections to the bill, in tho hope that before vote Ia
ken may be satisfactorily informed upon this subject
Let me see when the Information comes that II is to al
feet the agricultural Interests that represent IN an advan
ta4eous manner-then will go tor H. In regard to the
provisions OF this bill, explained by the chairman OF
The Com Com there much that heartily
approve-that is IL could separate the first section
the bill from the But il 10 retain this first
section changing the common law which has been set.
tied ever since the OF Cox and Burnham. am OPP
| posed 10 IT,
/ Mr. DICKINSON. The origin OF this common law
may be very well taken IRON the iact thai The act oil
footing II has yielded all 10 the spirit of the age
and he advance and progress OF commerce demand that
the re should be amelioaion OF this rule. You
canno, benefit without benshting agriculture The
common carefs il they relieved by the operation OF
this BILL will receive benefits that will be iei in all the
ramhcahons OF society, and Will prom more than
the agricultural interest -t .
The honorable senator from Kentucky says that the
me OF The Committee Commerce from the com
mercal cities Now, he certainly does not dsapprove OF
this Does he know that there are carriers as we'll
as merchants thee and that The great interests in the
expectation and importation interest lhis interest of
carrying finds its check in other interests, and
other interests IN that This bill should not be
put of because it important one, nor passed al
once because 1t important bill Ii the rule "a II now
exists oppressive and unfavorable not only upon this
nlerepl. but upon all interests. then 1t is time 10 yield
little to the split OF the age, and place " In the
shape that society demands will not take up more OF
the time OF the Senate unless this Dill De debated
more fully, but will conen, myself with these lew bret
and desullory remarks. .rssr
! MI RANTOUL hope this bill wil pass. The rule
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