The primitive Republican. (Columbus, Miss.) 18??-1852, 1852-04-29

cussion il the United States House Of Rep
resentatives, Mr. Brooks, Of New York, sta
ted some curious facts in relation 70 the Tar
hf 1916. The National Intelligence says !:
"Mr Brooks alledges and shows that t1e
Tariff If 1846 has not been, and y not, ths
tariff under which the revenue has been col
Ilected sinoe that time. Life was breathed
l;pto i he arOues, in the Civil AMI diploma.
rio b;li August 10, 1916; but sufficient
revenue was collected by it only under Sc
RIGS If illegal Treasury Circulars, issued by
Mr.. Secretary Walker, and followed up on
the precedents he established, which circu-
lars, in January, 1851, the Supreme Court
Of the United States declared to be void and
of no effect. After this, with a view Of col
Letting revenue, and without which revenue
enough to carry on the Government could
not be collected, Congress, under the promp-
ting of the Finance Committee of the Senate
and the Ways and Means Committee of the
House, re-enacted the Treasury Circulars,
and further invigorated them by the act OF
March Sd, 1851. Mr. Brooks then shows
that the Treasury, under suits from the
Courts, (Of which fifty are now pending IN
New York alone, is refunding these duties IL
legally collected, with drawbacks refused,
etc., ETC., to very large amount which now
goes to swell the apparent expenditures OF
the Government The facts which Mr..
Brooks arrays, satisfactorily explain why
what is called the Tariff of 1846 has yielded
so much more revenue than the Wings Of
that day expected, and why the expenditures
of the Government have been seemingly in
creased in the repayment of duties illegal
ly collected from illegal Treasury Circulars. "
The above insidiOus attack upon the tariff
of 1916 is going the round of the wing press,
and we copy it to forwarn the democracy of
the south, against the secret Vaccinations
of the tariff mOngers, There probably new
erwas measure of public legislation, the
''wisdom, justice and moderation" of which,
was so fully attested, or signally indicated
by its remarkable success, than this monu-
ment of Democratic policy, against which,
wing hostility, afraid to strike, is beginning
to make covert war. In principle the tar
if of '46, recognises the doctrine of discrim-
nation in as full and liberal degree as is
consistent with the revenue powers of the
government, the duties of which are levied
upon the only equitable basis of an impost
tax-the ad vQlorena plan. It's details may
be susceptible of modification as perfection
attaches to nothing human; but ten chances
to one, that any effort at correction, par
ticularly by wing fnanceers will ruin its
present admirable and efficient operation
If in its equal and benign results, it has
set at naught the predictions Of such men as
Evans and Webster, by producing according
to Mr. Corwin's last Treasury Report cup
wards Of forty-nine millions of dollars, we
hardly think that the brilliant discovery Of
f Mr. Brooks should be permitted to "break
things" The tariff of '46 has stood proof
against the prophecies of big fnanceers, it
would be therefore great pity if it should
be destroyed by the specious sOphistries OF
small partisans.
Horror-stricken as certain wing politicians
are, at what they call "agitatiOn," and en-.
amored as they are with the claims o.
: "fnaliy," it does seem to US that the
, present tariff is peculiarly commended tC
, their tranquil ideaism as eminently worthy
: of repose and stability.
Instead of that, however, they are as ready
as ever to repeal the salutary and productive
revenue system of the country, and to In
: volve its commerce in a wild war of party
fanaticism, in order to put few more dol
: lars into the pockets of a favored class. By
professed desire for tranquility on one sin
gle subject of legislation, they hope to Sc
; cure the power necessary to open wide the
) sluices of agitation on the most delicate anC
sensitive of all-that of commercial the
expense of the peace, prosperity and public
!, repose of the country If this is not ultraisn
and fanaticism, we should like to know
what is?
The following extract upon the yield o
the tariff of '46 is taken from the last An
; nual Report Of the Treasury. The tariff o
e 1912, yielded, if we recOllect right, sOm'
r twenty-four millions.
: ''The receipts from customs for the las
s fiscal year, as before stated, were upwards o
It forty -nine millions of dollars. Should ou
:, importations of foreign merchandise for thu
j current and next fiscal year equal those o
the past year, the revenue from that sourc,
for the three years ending Both June, 1858
$ will have been about $50, 100000. Asid,
g from demands upon the treasury for ou
: new territories, this sum would have beer
sufficient to have met the ordinary expenses
: of the Government, and to have liquidateC
the entire public debt. Notwithstanding
1 those extraordinary demands, there has beer
Y effected, since the first of December last, ;
4 redemption Of the registered debt to the ex
tent of 81 1857 ,843 II.
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