Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1852-04-06
SATURDAY, ArRiL ?, 1852.
SENATE.

Nr Sa.cve,ronp from tho committee of General Laws
reported House bills incorporate the Wheeling Fena
acadt niy and incorporate the Gnyandoe Lyceum AL
49, Senate bill authorizing Ricnrt Z. NJ. loung to build
wharf James river &c. Likewise that The committee nsE
be discharged from the further consideration OF resou
ton in relation to the report of the Visitors OF the lnsli
ton for the education of tho Deaf and Dumb and the Blind
The committee General Laws were authorized to have
printed House bill prescribing the duties OF county onces
Mr. SMITH from the committee Banks, reported SENATE
bill amend The charter Of the Merchants and bluhulactu
fers' Bank Of Wheeling
Mr.. THOMAS, from the same committee reportou SENATE
bill 10 amend the charter OF the Bank Of the Old Dominion
Alexandria.
Mr. AMsLER from the committee of Courts Of Justice,
ported bill concerning the town VI Competition, IN INT
On motion of Mr. WArsox the bill amending chapter Isl
of tho Code OF Virginia. taken up. The amendment
the House was coHcnned in.
Mr. DESrALE moved that the report Of the committee or
Privileges the memorial Of Sherrnrd Clemens contest
ing tie of Thomas Sweeney, be now taken up. Cur
The resolution reported the committee DO discharged
from the further consideration of the memorinwas con
Mr. TASp presented the petition OF james Cornck anc
others asking compensation for unsaG land warrant
The resolution OF Mr. BRowS to discharge The committee
The Whole from the further consideration of the bill concern
ing Commissioners Of tho Revenue, came up the unfln
he business.
Mr. MoscrEe called the previous question: but there
not Second"
r REoEn moved TO lay Tie resolution on The table. Car
ricd.
Mr. IsDELL offered the following resolution, which was
Resolved That the Committee Of the Whole on the BIZ
concerning Commissioners Of the Revenue be and they arr
hereby instructed close all debate that bill a. three
o'clock, F. NJ, this day. and report the bill, with sucl
| amendments as they may recommend, TO the Senate
On motion of Mr. REoER the Senate resolved itself int
Committee Of the Whole, Mr. MASON in the Chair and
sumed The consideration OF the bill concerning Commission
ers Of The Revenue.
Mr. SnAcKELroRD offered The following amendment the
amendment: CHE clause will be found in Yesterday. pro-
cccGings) 1nsc. after the world cp the words sin tho
hands OF the producer or grower"
Mr. BREHr addressed the committee He dculed the idea
that system OF taxation which had been could be de-
viscd would operate equally on all Nearly the whole bur-
cIS Of the Stale fell the agricultural interest and some
Of the counties represented by gentlemen who opposed ht
bill actually drew more money from the Treasury than they
paid into il.
Mr. SMAcKELFoRp opposed 10 all exemptions. and al
though it recognized by the Constitution the system
Of exemption should be esortcd without the strong
necessity. Mr. s. commended that the land in fir
cinia, was less than in any other State in the Union
watch which could be bought in any jewelers. shop for s25
so was taxed 90 cts while s00 worth Of land only paid
l2 cts. He denied that there any labor lha
there would bu except in the shape OF capation tax
When you tax the poo! man, he who nothing, and
make him pay tax on his head, then you labor He
argued against tie exemption Of agricultural productions
and maintained that the agricultural interest did pay
much tx lad been represented This shown by the
statistics in the Auditors Office He thought the policy pur
sued u Eastern gentlemen this question wrong fol
documents will show that the increase in value Of the
productions OF the West increasing in much larger
ratio than those OF the East In taIaon therefore, with
out these exemptions the relative which the West
pays will be continually increasing while that which the
East pays is continually diminishing.
Mr. lsDELt said that was necessary that provision
should be made speedily for The passage OF some
law in order that the operations of the government should
be carried on BE was astonished that gentlemen should
oppose this bill! because it recognized The doctrine OF
enpons-a doctrine recognized BY the constitution olf
There many diversified interests in The State tina.
il was impossible 10 frame bill thai would sui, ALL
Tneoretc distractions viii not suit in framing bill! OF
this kind. Here we have, in one section species o!
property which is not owned in the other. The agricul-
,ura productions OF tie sections not the same
Hence arises the difficulty in making tax bill II the
gentlemen desiring hese particular articles exempted
show that they ought be exempted, sufficient has been
done. Tho equal and uniform terms used in the Consu
lion intended 10 that the The article
should be the in every portion Of the Stale But there
really exemption of agricultural productions under
this BILL excep, the supplies OF the farm, for The residue will
be- converted into money and the money will be taxed In