Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1860-09-21


Press;
Mr. Douglas said, each year the expenditures Of
the Federal Government had been about twenty
million dollars over and above is income. 10 man
ruinous. One Of tive things must certainly DO done
Snndard or We must Increase the revenue up 70 the
standard Of our expenditures.
Dom acting in the matter /, was nSSribly the ex-
az the close Of each session that u could not be
was the last bill in each year. For three years bill
was brought forward 20 remedy this evil ofan excess
pied an { he time and defeated IL
new loan, or new issue OF treasury notes, iol-
loved a necessary consequence, in order 70 keep
the wheels Of Government in motion. When our
Representatives returned home, and were asked why
they did not reduce the expenditures or increase
the revenue they all replied that they were In hvor
fthat course, but could not for want Of time and
that it would certainly be accomplished next sss-
sion. Laughter and applause,
Pennsylyania has a deep interest IN the revenue
question. She desires all that protection TO Aneri-
can industry which eau be furnished by rereRuo
nue. BY tariff which is sufficient 70 defray the tine
expenses of an economical administration Of tho
to american industry a rerenHs tariff may afford.
Voices, ' that is what We want" and applause. L
ject until you drive the negro question out Of Con-
gress they will have time to devote little atten-
ton 70 the Affairs Of white men. Three cheers for
Douglas.
This view Of the tariff question is the same
as that proclaimed by Judge Douglas in his
late Richmond, tVa.) speech.-PlaiR Dealer.
Candidate Douglas is playing the most
brazen Of charlatans on the tariff. Up to the
speech quoted by the Dealer Mr.. Douglas
never failed to oppose, in or out of Congress,
every attempt to raise the tariff to "protec-
tive" character. BE has been the most alb
ject slave of the Cotton free traders, and
fought Henry Clay to the last on the tariff
policy. Mr.. Douglas bitterly opposed the
passage of the tariff of 1912, and aided iu its
repeal in Is46, voting steadily with South
Carolina and Georgia against Pennsylvania
and New England. On the 2sth of Feb.
1853, Mr.. Mason, of Va, offered an amend
ment to the Civil and Diplomatic bill as an
additional section
THAT all existing duties on iron imported
for rails, to be laid upon railroads in the Uni
ted States, be, and the same are hereby re-
pealed."
Mr.. Douglas said-"I suggest that, instead
of repeating the duty in toto, we simply sus-
pend it for a limited time, say two or three
years. have prepared an amendment for
this purpose, and offer it as an amendment
to the amendment, but if it is not adopted, l
shall join the Senator from Virginia for the
total repeal of the duty"
Mr.. Douglas subsequently, Withdrew his
amendment and voted for Mr.. Mason's amend
ment whidh was rejected, yeas, 10; nays,
36.
On the llth of April, 1854, the bill allow
ing credit for an unlimited time on railroad
iron imported into the United States being
under consideration, Mr.. Douglas offered a
substitute, suspending the duty on railroad
iron until the lst of February, 1857. BE
defended his substitute in discussion, and on
motion made to postpone the further conside-
alton of the bill, he voted with a minority of
nine yeas in favor Of postpOnement against
thirty-three nays. Such is the record of Sen
ator Douglas on the all absorbing issue in
Pennsylvania How soon the scales fell from
his eyes when soliciting the sufrages of her
tariff Democracy
Look a little further at his auti-Tariff
record, as far back as Is43 Dec. 18th, ls43,
Mr.. Rbett, of South Carolina, moved a sus-
pension of the rules, in order to introduce
the following resolution:
ResoIUed That the Committee Of Ways
and Means do inquire, as soon as practicable,
into the expediency of reporting bill repeal
ing the tariff act passed in the year ls4I, and
in lieu thereof imposing a maximum rate of
duty of 20 per cent, ad Ua1orcH, on imports,
discriminating below this maximum in the
duties imposed, on the principle of producing
revenue only.
On this motion Stephen A. Douglas voted
yea.
January Sd, 1874, Mr.. Rhett submitted the
following resolution, on which he moved the
previous question:
RssolUed, That the Committee on Ways
and Means be instructad TO report bill re-
ducing all the duties on imports over 30 per
cent, Gd ualOrem to that amount and provi-
ding for final reduction within two years
to 20 per cent, dd UaLoTem, with such discrim-
ination below this maximum as the purposes
Of revenue shall require.
Mr.. Douglas again voted yea.
His later record is equally anti-tariR On
the lst of March, 1855, when it was proposed
to inject new tariff into the general apPrO-
priation bill then under consideration, Nr.
Douglas opposed the movement and said, as
reported in the Congressional Globe;
81 am for a reduction of the tariff to
strict revenue standard. I am a free trade
man to the fullest eztest thaf aps can carry il
and at the same time collect revenue enough
to defray the expenses of the Government
In other words, I am for no other kind Of a
tariff than revenue tariff" Again, in an
other place. he added: 'eWhen you call on
me as q revenue tariff man, as free-trader,
10 abandon my principles and turn protection
ist wish to know how far you are going teI
carry your protectionist doctrines y II am 4
against this measure" he repNa@eo ION the !
ground that It was not -P~Tenue arln that |
q il not a free-trsde-1d -1deasure; that it is re-
tn-n to What ,J~1ad hoped was an exploded |
docttine 1efotechOn."
~Mr. Douglas voted for the tariff of 1857, |
through all its stages and in all its obnoxious
forms. It is the very system which in Penn
sylvania be pronounced "tnwise and ruin
Gus" The tariff Of 1857 which Douglas
aided to inflict upon the country, and which
he admitted in Pennsylvania is too low 10
keep the Government from bankruptcy, ana
is also direct tax upon the industry of
the country without affOrding even incidental
protection, Mr. Douglas has made no effort in
Congress to change and raise to a revenue
standard, and in that way "iurnish protec-
ton to American Industry" On the other
hand he withheld his speech and vote for such
change, as the record proves.
At the last session the Republican House
passed a revised tariff bill, framed to suit
the exigencies of The Govern ment and afford
q fair measure Of protection to AmericanI