The south-western. [volume] (Shreveport, La.) 1852-1870, 1855-03-14

-EpI#pa PAt1S hHh I1S ~ ASPiSIS 1850 N
appeared to be on the morning Of the Gath ult
when it found among its members enough FIRE
J trade men to carry Tic twenty per cent. redue
ton Of the tariff Of 1916, reported some tim
@ since from the committee on ways and near
c by Mr.. Houston, and moved, on the Esd ult
: by Mr.. Letcher, as an amendment to the civ
S anddiplomatc appropriation bill. The amend
ment passed. The senate, it was though
: would concur, in which event this modlfcatlo
would become a law.
It is curious to observe how this was accom-
: plished in the house. It was not a direct vote
II it had depended upon that, it would probabl,
never have been. A few days before, whe,
Mr.. Houston had carried a motion to go int
committee Of the whole, to take up the tariff
question, and had the help Of Massachusetts t
do it, Pennsylvania united with the protection
lists and moderate men and took up another bill
instead. On the Esd, a combination was made
between the friends of free railroad iron and
free wool, to override the chair, and get ar
amendment into the civil and diplomatic APP
preparation bill, making those two articles free.
Pennsylvania resisted this very strenuously,
but the chair was oEerruled. Thus, by indi-
rect issue, the house was brought, in committee
of the whole, to the decision Of the subject OF
the tariff, and Mr.. Letcher (as we have Just
said moved the general twenty percent. tariff
reduction proposition. Pennsylvanians, op-
posed as they were to this, voted for and carried
1t, because, being an amendment to the iron
and wool amendment, they thought if they
carried it they would get rid of the latter, and
that they would have no difficulty in securing
the e election of the whole thing.
In this they appear to have been mistaken.
They forgot that the yeas and nays, which are
nottaken in committee, are taken in the house,
and that party discipline would be apt to hold
even them to the necessity Of voting for this
strictly party measure. That evening the party
screws seem to have been set to work, and the
result was the amendment was concurred in,
Pennsylvania herself voting forit. It was then
that the senate bill to remit duties on
railroad iron would be taken up in the house,
amended SO as to make it free Of duty, and
passed by the votes of nearly the entire west,
south and partof the east.
The tariff proposition, as it passed the house,
will be observed, is exactly the substitute of
Houston, published some time since, ex-
'ept that the ten per cent. discrimination in
avor of foreign vessels was struck out.
We hear nothing more definitely of tie pro-
sress of this bill until what the telegraph told
is yesterday. On the 1st inst, this civil and
diplomatic appropriation bill was taken up in
he senate, as amended by the house. The
mendments, added to it for the modification
the tariff, were warmly opposed, and there l
as much excitement. Senators Broadhead
nd Cooper Of Pennsylvania, Clayton of Della I
are, and others made speeches, in which they t
cleared their intention of moving to append a
ne French spoliation bill, and any other bills a
le president might veto, to this bill, if the house C
nendments, modifying the tariff, were insisted L
This was the snarl things were in atthe latest a
ivlces, within twenty-four hours Of the ad- q
urnment OF congress! N. @. Picayune. 0
PowERs' STATUE OF W~AsH1NGToN-The neg d
ct with which this magnificent specimen Of W
t has been treated by our State Legislators is o
aly wonderful and reflects seriously alike up re
their patriotism and good sense. The sta
C has been lying in a warehouse at Baton
ouge ever since the commencement of the ses-
N OF the present legislature, and yetthere are
reliable indications that it will be placed up
the spot originally designed for it! For co
anne! for shame!! T.
The following remarks from the Baton Rouge
met, OF the 28th ult., are just and appropri- VII
!. We copy them with pleasure: tht
HE FATHER OF His CouNrRY.-It astonish- rel
us no little, that notwithstanding the calls eV'
ich have been made by the press from day me
day, any time these past three months, that no
| the Father Of his Country lies basely en- Ian
oped IN Florence straw at Hart 4 Co.'S TIC
r%ehouse, under the hill. Here we have a Dc
rk from the chisel Of Powers, the sculptor kin
'ork designed to stand in the seni-circular wa
anda at the capltol-to awe legislators into ant
nee, sobriety and right doing-a work de- hae
ned to be kept as standing and silent PRAYER an
heaven, for the whole county, including the act
mp and overfowed lands, that yet remains the
AIRED tor at Hart d Co.'S as it was put up by be-
subs OF Mr., Powers at Florence nearly q uns
7 ago. There is no adequate apology to edg
I tor this negligence on the part of those hav- /,
authority to u%nloosen the cords. Is the pres !
learned body togo home without seeing it? zoe
1t is then doing a wrong, which makes it ana
srsonal In jury to ourself. When those GEN IN q
zen retire to their homes, to pursue their pres
caljlngs Of industry, and they see it non
ed IN the CoTet that the Father of his Y
ntry IS actually standing on the post de- lall.
ed for him; they will reprove themselves upo
oelng SO much occupied with ponderous Oh 7
affairs, as not to have bestowed a thought OF q
he interesting subject, Verify procrastina- onl
is the thief Of time, and if these patriotic spol
now at the capitol do not see the With
sseled statue of the 'sFatber of his men
this time, they may never have the tau
sure OF looking on lis form again. IS IN
Soo@l~~ca~o-o1~ queS
PREDEcTIoN.-There seems to be STATE
Cd time coming for the State. In a recent a cas-
tie IN our Legislature on the question of leas-
he pemtentiary, one of the members from f
who has heretofore been the verv an Flag
es OF his speech-making colleague, feeling Of g
With indignant thoughts running THROUGH HarI
I'D wilderness ofhis brain, rose up and said. the J
IL. Speaker am opposed to letting any tizes
have the penltentiary but the State. mem
g amt aman in my parish but what is name
It, and am agin it and shall always be all he
=. What will it come too, mister speaker? time,
we are selling the crime of the State. But. The
here IS other reasons why we all should south
~ It. The day will come, very much it rol
ID, mlsterspeaker, when we may all be II it bio
enItentiary and how wo,IJ - n, as I'll,