The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1860-06-22
From the Philadelphia Inquirer,
The Fate of the Tariff.

The MORRILL, tariff bill has met the fate in
the Senate which its enemies have all along
prophesed for it, and which its friends
feared was prophecied too truly. Mr.. VIII
SON yesterday moved that the session be ex-
tended TO the 28th inst. Mr. HUNTER suggested
the 21st, and then proposition OF Mr.. VIC
FALL, of Texas, that the 25th should be fixed
upon the final adjournment, was alfrmativey
acted upon, as though it were species of split
ting the difference between the other days
named.
Some aiusion beng mgde by Mr.. CLNGMAN
TO the fact that the Baltimore Convention
would be in session next week, and desire
expressed that tae time of the final adjourn
ment mi ght be fixed, with view TO the ab-
sence of Democratic Senators, which the
| assembling of that body might cause, Mr.. HALE
made speech ofa very remarkable character,
and one which should teach Pennsylvanians,
and others interested in the success of the new
! tariff bill, that Democratic Senators alone are
| not to be held responsible for It's defeat. He
stigmatized the new tariff bill as a partial one,
and ridIcuIed Senator B.GLER and his efforts
TO procure its passage. "The tariff question:"
be said, sis settled. There were at least ten
votes against it," That this is SO is probably
true and that all the eloquence OF Senator
BIeLER would be expended in vain in efforts
to change the views Of those comprising The
majority upon the subject, IS equally, likely.
But it must be remembered hereafter that no
party is entitled to the credit of having sought
to achieve its success, and no party responsible
altogether for its rejection by the Senate. The
EUening Post, one of the ablest papers IN the
country, and an answering supporter of the
Republican side of politics, has, since the H.
PRODUCTION of the MORRILL, bill in the House Of
Representatives, denounced the bill in the most
unmeasured terms, as partial, unjust, oppressive,
and made to advance the Interests of few en-
gagged in particular branches of manufacture, at
the expense OF every one else in the country.
Mr.. HALE, now, IN the Senate, hastens the
downfall of tae bill, by telling the Senate and
.he country that its defeat ia foredoomed, and
by intimaing, il not distinctly urging, that IFS
fate is merited by the partiality ofthe proposed
legislation.
On the other hand, Gov. BIGLER, since the
introduction of the bill into the Senate, has ap-
pareLtly been its earnest, if not very effective,
advocate. II may be that be knows that there
is majority of ten ready to seal ITS doom,
whenever the time comes for vote, at least,
as well as Mr.. HALE, who is not generally, We
presume, very high in the confidence OF the ma.
jority OF the Senate. Il may be that Mr.. BIG
LER, hopeless OF, or even Indifferent TO ITS sue
cess, has shaped his course on the question, with
a view to screen himself from the censure OF
bis constituents. Of these things we are una
Bile to judge but one thing, all who run may
read-that while GovIBIeLER has, at least, been
the avowed advocate of the MORRILL, tariff bill,
Mr.. HALE, OF New Hampshire, has sung its fu-
neral psalm ~ tons rather Of triumph than of
sorrow.