New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1851-12-22
NETWORK TRIBUNE.
Tariff Convention in Northern New-Ysrk.
Prom our own Reporter

hEkSENILLk, ESSEX co.
Wednesday, Dec. L. 1851.


Wednesday, Dec. l. 1881.
The Convention of Iron Masters and 9TH
ers, friendly 70 revision of the Tariff, has ust
closed lis sessions, and 1 give you below she
proceedings. The greatly depressed condition
OF the various interests OF this section OF the
State, growing more serious and threatening
every day, has at last aroused the people OF the
XvIth Congressional District, composed OF Es
sex, Clinton and Franklin Counties 20 a fixed
determination TO use every legal and proper
measure to procure such revision of the Tar
if as will revive their suffering interests, re
store the business OF these counties TO healthy
condition, and protect the labor of the country
from the disastrous operation of al rdioren and
little more than nominal duties
An informal meeting of the slgners TO the
previously published call was held last night,
the proceedings OF which were merely prellm.
mary and az which Committee to collect and
prepare statistics and facts and draft resolutions
was appointed The Committee discharged then
duty faithfully, as will be seen by the report and
schedules furnished below and which were present
ed at the meeting OF the Convention.
To-day, at two o'clock the Delegates assembled In
the large hall Of the Academy, and embraced many
many OF the most prominent men Of Essex and Gin.
ton Counties. Gentlemen who have represented
their felio citizens almost every ofhce-Judges,
Senators, congressman, and others, as well as many
OF the manufacturers mechanics, and farmers OF the
two counties were here, ali united IN one grand de-
sire and resolve to procure revision OF the present
Tariff, In order that the Iron interest," the basis Oh
the wealth Of these counties, may be protected and
fostered The character Of the Convention was OF
very high order, for the intelligence and moral
WORTH and the capital and labor interests represented
by the Delegates assembled
The meeung was called to order by Hon. J. .
Whallon, and the Convention was organized by the
choice of the following officers
FORMULATION Henry IL Ross of Essex
VIcs.Prssdsnts-Bon VIM +. Halle, and Hon.
Thomas Crook, OF Clinton Co. Hon. Eli W. Rogers,
and Charles NJ. Watson, OF Essex Go.
Secret1ies-James d. Dickinson, of Frankim 60.
John s. Gould, OF Essex, and Peter 3 Palmer, OF
Clinton.
The President having stated the objects Of the Con-
yention in brief address, on motion OF ;. Wnal,
Ion, q business Committee OF seven was appointed
to prepare and report business Tor the consideration
of the Convention the following named gentlemen
were appointed by The Char James >. "aail9n a
George A. Simmons, j. d. Kingsland, John Gould,
Jr, John Rogers, ST. John Is. l.. Skinner, and Henry
G. Hewitt. o.
During the absence OF the Committee, the Con-
yention was addressed BY Messrs. {. L. Tabor, " M
GLAND Bourne, OF New York, q. w. Gof, Hon. jill
Holt and Hon. Eli w Rogers.
The Business Committee having returned, the
Convention listened to the reading OF the following
Report and Resolutions
REPORT
The Committee report that, In relation TO the iron
interests OF Northern New YORK. that portion tneIeoi
embraced In the Sixteenth Congressional Disuict
composed of the Counties of Clinton, Essex anu
franklin including all expenditures for both real ana
personal estate, purchased and employed Tor tnese
purposes consisting of FORCES, Furnaces, honing
Mills Nail Factories, their appendages and machi-
merry ogether with the ore beds and wood lands ap'
purten ant thereto amount at a moderate estimate
10 three millions OF dollars, the prncipa portion OF
which has been invested on the fatn OF the 'ari acc
nassed pror TO 1896 and has become already reduced
to riIvre than fourth OF the original value
and must without the revival OF that protection OF
some other revenue system by speclhc dutles SUP
and lost. That other % sa. ae-.
| ties including those of the operatives ana workmen
as ell as farmers, mechanics and merchants iInms
! diately depending on and connected WIN those o
the Iron Makers, are equal In amount 70 ano,heI
three millions which have beenlnyested more or lesf
on the faith of the same tariff laws and must neces
sarily be depressed in about the same degree as the
interests Of the manufacturers themselves, unaef
| continuance OF the existing revenue system ina
all the remaining interests OF these counties are aIso
more or les ependent on the Iron business and are
and will continue to be greatly depressedb by It's pros
tration. $1,000.
That there are in the same counties about two
hundred forge fires and six blast furnaces, wnicL
are capable Of producing, and did produce IN lof'
and le47, from the ore, about nifty thousand tun.
of Iron per annum, including both pig ana wfougn
non. That OF this the FORCES produced about 81 W.
tuns early worth then $45 per tun, and amounting
TO $i4i06O coo. That the pig iron produced the SAINT
years about s COO tuns yearly, worth s3Oper tul
and amounting to $4,000 That THE yearly proloc'
of All such iron is constantly diminishing amounting
To only COO tuDs OF wroughtron In 1881, worth on
S25 per tun, and Of pig iron to only 200 tuns worn
only ST. per tun, and amounting IN the whole
S3l2 GOO That Of the 200 forge fires only about
are now in operation, and none OF the furnaces arr
now in blast. That about : 900 tuns OF the wrough
iron is used up by the rolling mills and nail facsore
here, which cannot be kept IN operation by IRON pro
duced elsewhere. The schedules accompanying
tins report which have been carefully made OUT, vii
fully confirm these views OF your Committee
IL appears from these tables, extending from M
wears 1916 10 1881, inclusive that an extensive ant
heretofore fairly remuneraling business, employing
directly and indirectly more than 5000 men, ant
giving subsistence TO over one-tblTd Of the popua
ton OF the Counties OF Clinton and Essex, amounting
70 over $73 co., and essentially benehtng the who'll
in thai respect, is already In PROSTATE con5iton
and likely TO be soon wholly abandoned, and the IN
yestmeuts lost. 1t IS certain al the same time tina
these counties possess within their limits the nstu
raj resources toT the production OF bloom and ps'
iron of the best qualitles-superlor ores wssef pow
eTs and forests for fuel, besides the advantages
long experience and skill andthe use OF all the mod
em improvements in the iron business.
Your Committee have 10 doubt that the cause o
all this present depression and threstencd deslllC
ton is the abandonment and want OF specihc dutie
on Imported Iron, whereby thai article IS orough
here from Europe and Land down on our seaooar'
cheaper than can produce I, and TINS by reason
principally OF the low price Of labor there " whic
I our population should never submit. Even II IN
English manufacturers are Obliged to underseI mel
Iron, owing TO the great accumulation on incl
hands occasioned by diminished market on the Ia
Korean Continent this IS ne reason for neglectmg
guard our own manufacturers and iaborers again'
such a calamity. Your Committee are sure sne
sneak the sentiments OF the vast majority OF the IN
babi,ants Of the with Congressional D@trlct vine
they affirm that nothing snort OF arm OF Spt
cihc Duties on Iron, ike those in operation prlor
ls4o or al least equivalent to the I'D valorem dutie
Of the present tariff at that time. VIII SATISFY tnel
} just claims upon Congress and, without startin
anew The question of protection as permanent prf
cipe In the United States until We shall have reare
a domestic system of manufactures competent
and IN ~ re
beside the farmer we stand now on other and add
IDOL al reasons invoking the faith Of our governneI
toward our own citizens and the right of our eit
zens 70 demand at the hands OF that government w
presery alton Of such investments and ee pro'eSuo
of so many laboiers IN comparison Win "hcn a.
Ordinary questions which reach the oaio' 0oA arc
little importance to them. .a.h. 40,
Your Committee, therefore, recoihl'ieA1 ''' '-'i
ton OF the following resolutions ,,.-..u r..x -
Resolred That the inhattanls Of Sn'VS
TIanklin Counties egnposog the Ia n ~, ~ n