New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-01-29

| irg any body .b,t as Cameron s open 20 mor.l
| snasion, be will nc. resst proper advances from
the incoming President Be patent iii midsans
mer, aud thea opinion may be expressed more as
suIedly. In the mean time, Mr.. Baebaasa voaid
Ike 10 be relieved OF the ufielousness of some Of
his prOfessed friends.
new proportion for .evisiLg The Tariff is 10 be
introduced as substitute Tor the pending biz from
the Committee Of Ways and Means. II ron.ains
come important changes, while adberlng closely 10
the principles developed in the report submitted at
the last session. The material clause brings Wool,
sugar, salt, hemp and lead under a ten per cent
du'y dd edtorem. In some quarters this modinca.
ton OF the original bill will give the revision
streDgtk-in others il may excite opposition; but
when the conflicting interests come TO consider
low they may be assaied separately, and can APP
preciaie the circumstances by which they are
surrounded, they may agree 10 bury their differ
ences, and TO compromise upon this or SOM SINH
lar measure. The duty on brandy is 70 be reduced
from 100 10 % per cent; all dyestufs 10 be adj
mitted free and spices added 10 that category.
According 10 rough estimate Of the practical
effect of the proposed revision, the aggregate rev.
enue would be reduced near twelve millions Of dol
lars, still leaving, il such bill went into operation
next year, fty-fOu millions the receipts from
customs, according TO the figures OF the Secretary
Of the reasury. 4 reduction of the revenue is de-
msDded all sides, and yet tie serious attention
Of Congress cannot be- brought down 10 the mode of
accomplishing this desirable object As long the
receipts up TO total Of seventy three millions Of
dollars year, they now do, from customs, lands
and misce Laneous sources. combinations viii b.
formed 10 swell the expenditures propOrtlOnately;
and between the two, waste and corruption must
Inevitably ensue. If Congress desires to purify
tself and the influences which surround it, the
FIST and best step TO be taken ia to diminish the
temptation. Keep the Government outlay within
proper limitations; cut of the excrescences which
are constantly sprOuting out like weeds IN an un-
plowed field; and reduce the Offices instead Of in
creasing them rewards for hungry and NANCY
politicians. We are advancing at a fearful rate IN
the wrong direction. Thirty years ago, when the
whole expenditures of the Administration OF John
Quincy Adams were twelve millions of dollars a
year, it was denounced for wasteiulness. Now
they are seventy-two millions, and growing with
the geOmetrica progression of the New York corpo-
ration.
The House did itself credit, and an act Of JUS
tee at the same time, in passing the bill for ill.,
creasing the pay Of officers OF the Army. While
Members OF the Cabinet, the Judiciary, Members
of Congress, aud nearly the whole Civil staff of
the Government, have had their compensation put
up twenty or more per cent, this deserving class
has been excluded wholly from view until now.
Though tardy this concession " II arrest the lnlu-
YiOus eht cts upon the service Occasoned by resg-
nation and dissatisfaction.
a decided enoft was uhde W push lhiouyu 'uo
Southern WagOn-road to California, but the House
Wac resoute in refusing to suspend the rules, and
il failed Various objections existed to the form in
which this project was presented, aud not to the
object itself. The Committee on Territories will
endeayor in proper bill to cure these defects, and
thus TO drive in this entering wedge to speedy
and constant communication with the Pacific. If
railroad is ever TO be built, it must be pioneered
in this way, and the openingo of such route as is
proposed would do more tOprOye both the necessity
al practicabiity OF the enterprise than all the sur
veys, reports and oratOns that human ingenuity or
genius could devise INDEX.