New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-03-01
Mt. HusrkR, by direction of the Committee

| iA'nikki ey drecticn OF the Committee
" o nance srbmitted amendment apprc atiuy
S@4oOC for te purpose Of sales and the erection al
o"eDg houses for the Vice President and the several
ntnbers of the Cabinet
MT BoRLASD wss0pposed to the amendment;
h a. Huch proprety y mi t ne thought be Dull. for
celh,ois and Members Of Congress he vas 70, leaving
tneinDers OF the Cabinet % live In their swp syIs II
ahpay or plainly as their taste might call for
Itwoid be unjust 70 force 10 live in house AID
consequenly compel him 10 live Ia q cOrresooad.ny
style II the salary was not sucsut-snd az this he
hsd no iniornahon-let Il be increased and allow them
to I've IN such manner and style e. they taolgh. 81
MIR. HUNTER said this proposition had been
recommended BY the Department Il wss well known
that the salaries were insufficient and the COMMITTEES
thought by relieving them Of the houserent il would be
better thnn-sdding 20 the salaries
Mr. BRADBURY followed, opposing the amend
ment, and urging that the salaries be made 5000
year.
Dir Butler said that paradoxical as it might
appear he regarded high salaries the best policy for
Republican Governments If no salary be given. the
oices are closedt 70 all excep. the wealthy give good
tanned low salaries be given, intellect if not united
with wealth, cannot be commanded. He opposed
10 this amendment would be TO make the residences
TIE Government otcers sonething like Hotels into
winch, a. they were Government property many peo-
pie would consider they had perfect right to enter.
Mr.. RUsK opposed the amendment.
Messrs ssand Mason supported t.
DIR. DODGE, (Iowa) was opposed to the
1nlehatneni and also to the proposition of the Senator
rom Maine be did not consider the salaries were re-
eeroed AZ too small judging from the aydity with which
places were sought The Increase of salaries had the
e tendency OF drawing of men from the State Govern
salary was too small the ocer could resign and others
could be found TO take their places
Mr. BUTLER said he was in favor of paving
man wei, and prevent him from cheating
Mr.. DODGE said if Cabinet officer was not
PAID well enough the Office like Bunyans sin.
not 10 be shaken o-he could resign and get rid of it.
Question taken and amendment rejected
Yeas % Nays "A. as follows
YEAs-Messrs. Badger Brodhead Brooke. Cooper. Dayx
BOB, DeSaussare Dodge Of Wis, Downs Foot g Sn Hale
Hunter Jones Of Iews. Jones Of Tenn Mason Morton,
KAYs-Messrs. Adams Atchison Bayard Borland Brad
bury, Butler Charlton, Chase, DAVIS, Dodge Of Iowa
Petit Rusk, Sebastian Seward, Toucey, Wade Weller
Subsequently the vote was r, considered
Mr. BRADBURY moved to amend the amend
ment by striking it all and inserings provsion max
ing the salary OF the VcePresdent and tn Cabinet On
GERS $1,000.
This was agreed to: Yeas, 26; Nays, IL
and ns amended, the amendment was adopted Yeas
40 Nays Is.
Fifty thousand dollars was added for bridge
over the walls of the Potomac River.
An amendment appropriating S1o0,000 to be
expended, under the direction of the President in OBJ
tanning supply of pure water for Washington City, to
be taken from such point and introduced in such man.
ner as he may direct, was offered by Mr. Hunter.
RUsK, MANGUM, MASON and HUNTER supportedt
Messrs. BoRLAsD, BRoDHEAD and DoDGE,
Qowa) opposed il.
Mr.. HALE earnestly supported the amend
ment There was strong necessity for supplying this
CITY with pure water Under the authority of Congress
sona legislation, the city well supplied with rum
shops lottery tickets and gambling houses. The least
Congress could do would be to give the city pure
water.
Mr. PRATr moved an amendment providing,
that should il be necessary 20 the State Of Mary
land to obtain this supply Of water the assent OF that
State should fret be obtained. This he said, was neces
sary the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal ran along the
Potomac, and that Company and the State had some
rights in the water
This. aftera long debate, touching upon the
proceedings of the Pacific Railroad bill adopted,
and amended the amendment was adopted Yeas, 30;
Nays, H.
MIR. HUNTER, by direction Of the Finance
Committee reported amendment providing that on the
duties of oil Railroad Iron imported during the five
years from July next credit OF five years shall DE
given upon the bonds OF the importer uat IL shau DC
laid during five years. -.
MIR. MASON moved to amend the amendment
by providing for the repeal OF all duties on railroad
iron. a., -,
mens were out of time and ofplace on this BILL and
deserved the fate which justly awaits them lie had
stood firmly by the Senator from IN ms eo,s 70
keep the Appropriation bill clear OF all amendments In
yolypg questions on conroverted policy and not prop
ery belonging TO such bills The Senate was now, AZ
this late hour, called upon to ie.smte on 'ne
The tariff This proceeding was giving TO the Finance
Committee all power this and every other supject
WAS the Senate now, in its last hours to 60 into an
examination of this subject In all It's deta't mere was
,caisston proposed utterly foreign TO the bit was
le,isaton too Tor the exclusive benefit Of cOrpOraons
Mr.. Book asked if the corporations engaged
in iron manufacture in Pennsylvania bad nothing 10 do
with this opposition =, ~, toro,.o ,ho..
~ moro than three corporations engagedin the man.
utacturc of iron in Pennsylvania. The last amendment
was preferable the one proposed by the commune
|, presented the question boldly. free lrsue naG
rect taxation What was there Tor TINS patla
iecisla,on, Why repeal the duties On al Kinds OF
from Why not repeal the duty on sugar, cotton, ana
woollen fabrcsi They were in more common use ana
demand by the whole people than railroad IRON a0o
sh all duties and to direct taxation al once Ihst
would be better than to single out particular interest
to crush y. =, $3.50
tons from his Legislature yesterday directing him to
vote on repeQl of all duties Railroad Iron. Nothing
but this instruction would have decided him to move
| this amendment 49,
Mr.. BRopHEAD asked if the Senator was in
sructed to move the amendment 10 the Appropriation
| Bill. =
| Mr.. HUNTER said his instructions were OF
eourse 10 have the duties repealed II time were allowed
he thought he could show that this supervision of duties
would not be injurious TO the Iron interest," but all he
| now asked was a vote. g.,
MIR MILLER said that by comparison of the
amount of railroad iron imported during the last I'VE
wears he calculated there would during the next hve
years be an annual importation of 10000 tuns The
average value of this he put at $40 sun At 80 per
cent the duty would be Sl2 tln, making an annual
revenue Of S3,000000 and on this sum credit OF nye
wears was 10 be given-a creii, to Railroad Companies
of over $40 900 for i've years Il would not stop
there When the thing was done before Con
gress at the end of the five years surrendered the
bonds 20 the Railroad Companies and released tneh
from the duties. The same, doubtless would be done
now
Mr.. HUNTER said he did not desire 10 pro-
long This debate By the consent of every member OF
The Commute ON Finance except the speaking. he
was authorized 70 Withdraw the amendment
Mr.. MuLER-I certainly gave my consent.
Mr.. Hale objectedto Withdrawing the amend
ment "
MIR. Butler said the amendment ought to be
wa. of the principle ~, but