Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-06-20

The House Of Representatives, BY a very
large majority, has passed bin increasing
the duties on Imports and iunding the Tween
" Millions ol Treasury Notes which fall due
on ne lst Of July. The Senate, by bare
mejority, (25to 2s, has postponed the Tariff
bill and insists on funding the Treasury Notes
that il, on O0nYertingA floating deficiency
into an additional funded debt--l0ithout ma
king any change In the present thriG-that is
without making any provision for payment.
The leader Of the Senate, Mr.. Hunter in
sists that the present tariff will produce sutii-
cient revenue four OF fee years hsles to begin
to pay of our debt. To sustain this assump-
ton, he takes the estimates OF the several
Secretaries as the basis Of our Annual Expen-
diture when he knows that the Senate-nain-
ly on the recommendations Of his own Com
mittee--has added Eight Millions Of Dollars
to ems of the Appropriation bills as It came
from the House, based on the official estimate
Of the proper Department. Mr.. Hunter can
not be ignorant Of the fact that the Appropri-
ations never are and never will be limited by
the Estimates, and that the Senate is the
body through which most Of the increase is
made. We regard many of these additions as
improper. This Adminitration ought not TO
be permitted to throw over on to its successor
the Oregon War Claims, and many other
such. Whatever Is honestly due on these
should now be ascertained, adjusted and paid,
so as not TO have them scored up in the ag-
gregate expenditures of the first or any other
wear of Mr.. Lincoln's Administration. Nor is
! il right for an Administration which has add
ed over Forty Millions 10 the Public Debt to
leave the Treasury empty, and the Revenue
deficient It is simply just that the next Ad-
ministration should find on its accession a
liberal surplus and an abundant revenue, as
Mr.. Buchanan's did.
The President must not be blamed in the
premises, for the fault IS not his. In each OF
his two last Messages, he has urged npnn, the
attention of Congress the facts that the Key
enue is inadequate and that the Tariff must
be revised in order to increase it. His polit-
icaI sdversaries, whether "Republican" or
''Union,p are ready and willing to comply
with his request. Only two Republicans in
the House (Messrs. Stanton and Spinner, and
the former on question of detail solely
opposed the bill which has passed the House.
while in the Senate every Opposition Senator
voted on Friday against pOstpOning ng-that is,
in favor of passing the House bill. Gov.
Seward speech in favor Of the bill was not
merely forcible, as his speeches always are
but some of its points were novel and i'm
pressive. His suggestion that the naturaliza-
ton and expansion Of the useful arts and
finer manufactures among us would improve
the average character Of our immigration from
Europe, drawing hither men Of eminent gen
ius, capacity and culture, is worthy of pro
found consideration. Yet while every Re
publican Senator present voted against post
poning, every Democrat but two voted with
Hunter, including Messrs. Clingman, Pearce
and Toombs, who, while they were Wings,
would never have dreamed of so doing
Messrs. Crittenden and Kennedy ("Union'
we're absent, so that the duty of supporting
the policy of Home Manufactures and Debit
paying devolved on the Republicans only,
with the Democratic aid Of Messrs. Bigler
and Latham.-K 7. Tribune.