The daily union., 1852-08-05
Ervenditurs for june quarter.

This decrease OF expenditure with the exception of the
instalments, which went into the March quarter
arises mostly from of those financial tricks of the de-
partment by which payments are showed over INTO ihe
next quarter order that the apparent expense OF the
year may show less In the annual return The nnds IN
the treasury reached very high figure, being
nearly fifteen millions with So 900 900 only TO o
year and the current revenues range nearly hity
millions which is a far higher Than ought to he ex
pended The position Of the California trade, giving
monthly an mineral product which is altogether
of an exportable nature, and will continue to be war
rants belief ,a. there will be falling oil in imports
bui that tho other hand they will continue to increase,
and by that swell the government receipts Under
these circumstances. the proprley oil removing some o
the upon trade presents ITSELF Not only ought
very reduction in duties be made, but the
duties all articles which necessary 10 manuac
lures ought TO be entirely removed.
The senator from Rhode Island has introduced bill
which seeks promote manufacturing interests in textile
fabrics by making the materials which enter into their
fabrication He also proposes, in round about to
prohibit The importation Of such articles as are manu-
factured by him and his constituents The proposition
make free the articles he in his business Is OF
sound character should be applied only there bnt
extended all other manufactures No more important
application of that principle be made than in the case
OF pix iron, which Is the raw material Tor vast interests
which have been compelled steug3 not only against
foreign petition. but pay exobtan prices for their
material The late gives the following facts
hon made in the United States.
Pig Castings. Wrought.
A0"' 1884 bloom
2s4,sa5
TSa' nsa smss;ea maas;;; $3.50 $3.50 a5ai isss
There 20 293 interested in selling pig iron and
7l9 interested buying advance into state be-
come the material for ship and house-buders, tool
makers hardware factories, builders OF steam factories,
railroads. and every variety Of industry which applies iron
useful ends All these number at least 80 00O-ma1ing
persons who labor disadvantage. because Congress
compels them give double price for the material that
En- glsh iron acurers can get it at. Take the las
quotation for pig iron in Liverpool and in New York
Liverpool, July Il, pig, e. Oh q
Here is advance OF 80 per The makers OF cast
ngs buy 345 553 tons which, $780, them So 9Il O60
The Lancashire makers Of castings get the quantity
OF iron for S3sol06O They pay, therefore, 900
than the English makers Of castng The gives the
value Of the castings made 034 The value of all
the materials used is given $40 355, which would
leave Sl3,2H.6 .679 for wages, interests profits, &c. OF
this sum, oil the material caused by
the tariff is rs per Would this interest be
| efectually protected by removing that tax Again
The makers of wrought iron buy z5l,l9l pig
and this them So 263,49 than the makers OF
wrought iron in Lancashire pay FOR their pig metal. The
of wrought iron produced 27s044, which the
actual OF the pig metal is IS per than the
English bar iron The price OF BRUSH bars E5 los,
S26 90 per in Liverpool 80 per cent duty this
with "a per added the New York
SS TO- about equal to the OF the
raw material. Where then, is his protection The gov
erument allows him to from tho hardware maker,
and all other of iron, the money he is
PEELED pay the pgron makers whose fortunes
Ike that of the whig candidate for the govemorship
continue swell under the system. 1t is
very evden, tha # this pig Ion made free of duty.
the impetus thus given 10 the already lin spite OF the
| disaavantags) hourishing hardware and other manu-
scurers would very shortly exclude the remainder Tor.
egn iron waes although the import OF pig iron might
in some degree sppcrsede The wrought imported
This upon pig iron is direct bounty the manufic
OF abroad to the of the American
industry. Take cxamp'e England and tho United
States both export nails and castings 70 CHbs, where they
come In on equal la 1851 the United States