Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1860-05-18
WHOLE NO. 2706.

uhcturor and the wool grower, equally anxious confer
benefit one upon the other, are equally firm in their
couvcuuua u policy Facts show that the crop of wool
produced In This country will not supply more than about
twl-thirds Of the home demand This supply must be
obtained on terms that permit la manufacture here
/ it VIII be imported in wooen manufactures. On the
other hand, f wool crop is now too SMALL It's in
crcase ought to be encouraged 1t clear tho consump
world over. II anything like present prices continue,
there doubt chat the present stock Of sheep in the
! United States can be doubled within five years
Meantime. the bin proposes 20 hamonize these inter-
csa, hy allowing wool under maximum price to
u fec of duty, and wool above that pay duty Of
eirht cents per pound 10 taking two pounds Of fair
wool o. make pound OF cloth, specific duty OF six
teen cents per pound to equaze that wool, is pro-
posed un .0ths and a addition thereto fifteen. twenty
aud terntyhve per cent qd raior according to their
fcpcsu,e dospptious-coarse cloths paying low, and
hne cl9. higher rate. This adjustment is believed 20
be entirely fair aud should be satisfactory.
On haAseed Or Nn.ced we propose a specific duty Of
eight cents per bughel by strange device, it ia now
rec duty, it "ii be seen was placed upon haxseed
and mono upun hnsccd, while, gcncdcaly they mean the
same thing aud OF course nothing under the name Of
haN'eed imported uut ihe imports n lnsccd are very
largcah0yc two million bushels Any higher duty than
eight cents would seriously interfere with ihe returning
trade from California, which seeks rcights in India, and
iu the end would only result in the importation Of lin
seed oil Instead of seed II our stock rascs could make
as profitable ol the oil cake az do the English,
should mot have to carry al that % London market,
we now do. aud thc business Of crushing seed in this
country would save handsome profit now lost ia freight
The duty ui eight cents viii considerably gmcnt the
revenue and at the time encourage those engaged
In the culture Of not less than one hundred anf fffv
thousand Of land in the West devoted TO this crop.
duty also Of sixteen cents per gallon Is proposed on
In connection with this may also state that no rca-
SON WHY linens, t0 some extent article u
mNur, should pay less ratio OF duty than other textile
fabrics. lucy are accordingly raised from htecn per
cut 1nd classified SO as TO be equal in rank with wool
and cotton.
Importing over ten million ia value OF linen goods as
we do annually it will be conceded that ought not to
close she door against all efforts in behalf OF larger
u1ducn ui these goods az home. The edict Of Nantes
grove lhc ifcuch hnen Manufacturers TO ltelandi and
then England zcaously encouraged them, by granting
literal houncs on all exports Of linen goods Our poll
Soy offers contrast just before the duty was last
changed down 20 fifteen per centum, company with
large capital bought two hundred thousand dollars
North of laS machinery paid the Government $4,000
duties and when the tariff lowered, they forced
o. abandon The whole proeci and the machinery, duues
and all aas total loss II there was a home demand
Cor the lint haN would be cultivated for that well
the sccl and farmers would realize, instead of hf
tecn forty doara per acre. or as much as is obtained in
While te reciprocity treaty lasts, It Is quite mmater-
al whether any duty Is placed upon coal or not it will
duty however, is proposed IL is not irrelevant TO say
Che treaty alluded TO has proved most disastrous TO many
other American interests and having been made, as
conce'c uy atcaNaunn OK the constitutional rghts OF
this House, which has the sole right TO originate
bills, 10 ought 10 be speedily terminated.
it is tso proposed 20 limit the time for waro-housng
goods Go thirty days IL would be difficult 10 show why
we should give hants, who choose TO withdraw their
goods rom market for the purpose OF obtaining better
prices, credit upon duties rather than those who enter
them a once for consumption soon as landed, why
they should be furnished with stltes by Government,
from which 70 poddc their commodities. To our mer-
chants it be Of little advantage they import goods
such they need SELL hold for a speculative
market. Our whole policy seems unweared in behalf Of
interests which antagonize our own. siXty-niue per
cent NJ the importing busnsss of Ney, York is asserted
90 be n the hands Of foreigners is time TO curta the
business of renting stores the part Of Government.
II foreign manufacturers shippers avail themselves Of
our market to dispose Of surplus stocks they should have
power not practically enjoyed hy Americans and the
power Of warehousng is practically foreign conven-
ience, useful to foreign shipping and disastrous alike to
trade and manufactures.
Among the results be looked for, should this bill
pass, may be confidently asserted that II should
diminish, It will not increase the expense Of collecting
portations the duties will be specific, and in such
they will require only to be weighed measured
the forces OF the custo-house can be reduced Then
number OF minor articles from which the revenue is in
considerable but which viii be OF small al, antage
great diversity Of manufacturers, placed upon tho
free list and will merely require 20 be properly register
Cd IN regard those articles upon which mixed
compound duties proposed, that is in part specific
and i'm part dd rai9fci" there will be no dhculty If
merely competent rather than political paraans
cnployed for mold your laws into whatever shape you
please the trade possess wonderful nimblcncss vel
sagacity adapting their orders and shipments
statutes nave no question but an Accumulation de-
srou of reducing the expenses Of collecting the revenue
would nud no obstacles under the bill.
lt may he said that Il the details OF the bill are
complies, but those uho will feel the yoes interest in
This objection will be those nao oresee in the couplexity
ON mpcImcnt 90 cvAsiOus.
have thus given such explanations Of the bill as
could pack in she hour allotted very imperfecy It is
true bug enough TO give general dcA Of Us leading
points That it is perfoc-to the dotting OF the
crossing Of 81 would not Pretend but it may be
cllmci n he free of imperfrcons and anomalies
OF Che present law Should IL be adopted, II will al least
sustain th- Government and pay oh the public debt II
VIII also put new life into all branches Of industry, and
set the ulow the loom, and the anvil, work through
the whole length and breadth OF The Republic Ma
poleon had Nothing by the people; every
thing f1r ihc poopc'--whch seem have reversed
EcerYh3y By The people, nothing for the people, might
of the Government let allow the people some con-
silcratiDn and some incidental benefit