New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-18
THE ISSUE MADE UP,

The House of Representatives, by very large
majority, has passed bill increasing the duties on
Imports and funding the Twenty Millions of
Treasury Notes which fall due on the LIST of July.
The Senate, by bare majority, (25 to 90, has
postponed the Tariff bill and insists on funding the
Treasury NOtes-that is, ON converting q floating
deficiency into an additional funded debt-pithom
making any change in the present tariff,-tbat is,
without making any provision for payment. The
leader of the Senate Mr. Hunter) insists that the
present tariff will produce sufficient revenue four
fire years hence to begin to pay off our debt. To
sustain this assumption he takes the estimates of the
several Secretaries as the basis of our Annual Ex-
pendture, when he knows that the Senate-mainy
on the recommendations Ofhis own C0mmittec-has
added Eight Millions OF Dollars to one of the Ap-
preparation bills as it came from the House, based
on the official estimates of the proper Department.
Mr.. Hunter cannot be ignorant of the fact that the
Appropriations 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, but
some of them are doubtless inevitable. This Ad-
miDistration ought not to be permitted to throw
over upon its successor the Oregon War Claims,
and many other such. Whatever is honestly dae
on these should now be ascertained, adjusted and
paid so as not to have them scored up in the ag-
gregate expenditures of the fret or any other year
Of Mr.. LincOln's Administration. Nor is it right
for an Administration which has added over Forty
Millions to the Pull lie Debt to leave the Treasury
empty and the Revenue deficient 1t is simply
just that the next Administration should find ITS
accession a liberal surplus and an abundant reve-
nue., as Mr.. Buchanan did.
The President must not be blamed in the premi-
SEES, for the fault Is not his. In each of his two
last Messages he has urged upon the attention of
Congress the facts that the Revenue is inadequate
and that the Tariff must be revised ia order to in
crease it. His political adyersarics, whether
"Republican" or "Union," are ready and will NJ
to comply with bis request Only two Rcpubli-
cans in the House (Messrs Stanton and Spinner,
and the former on question of detail solely OPP
posed the bill which has passed the House, while
in the Senate erery Opposition Senator voted on
Friday against pOstponing-that il, In favor OF
passing the House bill. Gov. Stewards speech In
favor of the bill was not merely forcible, as his
speeches always are, but some of its points were
novel and impressive. His suggestion that the
and expansion of the useful arts
ind finer manufactures among us would improve
he average character of our immigration from
Europe, drawing hther men of eminent genius, ca
pacity and culture, is worthy oprolound considera-
lion. Yet, while every Republican Senator pres
pnt voted against postponing, every Democrat but
wo voted with Hunter, including Messrs. Cling
man, Pearce and Toombs, who, while they were
Wings, would never have dreamed of so doing
Messrs. Crittenden and Kennedy ("Union') were
absent so that the duty of supporting the policy of
Home Manufactures aud Debt-payng devolved on