Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1864-06-03
Congressional.
WASHINGTON

cl soldiers in the service of the United
States who were massacred at Fort Pillow,
and that said committee have leave to report
by bill or otherwise.
On motion of Mr.. McDougal, l. was
Resotred, That the committee OH Foreign
Relations be instructed to inquire and re-
lort what legislative action is necessary in
regard to the reciprocity treaty with Great
Britain, and whether it be desirable, should
the treaty continue in force, that the Pa
ciiic coast he included in its operation; and
Ill view OF the foregoing, the committee he
instructed to report to the Senate upon the
commercial results of the treaty thus far.
House bill to expedite the settlement of
land titles in California, ut San Francisco
and elsewhere, was passed.
The consideration of the tax bill was theu
resumed. The amendments of Mr.. Clark,
In reference to tobacco, were adopted. They
are as follows: On tobacco, Cavendish,
plug, twist, and all other descriptions from
which the stem has been taken out, in whole
or in part, or which is sweetened, includ-
ing fine-cut and tine-cut shorts, twenty
five cents per pound.
On smoking tobacco manufactured with
all the stem in, the leaf not having been
butted or stripped from the stems, and not
sweetened, and refuse or shorts separated
from fine cut tobacco, % cents per pound.
On cut smoking tobacco, made exclusively
from stems and not mixed with leaf OF leaf
ana stems, 10 cents per pound.
Mr.. Harris moved the following amend
ment to the l02d section, which was adopt
ed: Any person, firm or corporation own
ing, possessing or having the care or man
agement OF any railroad, canal, steamboat
snip, barge, canal boat, or any other vessel
OF OF any stage coach, or other vehicle en-
gagged or employed in the business of
transporting passengers or property, for
lllre, or in transporting the mail of the
United States, or of any canal, the water
rom which is sold for mining purposes
shall be subject to pay duty of 2la per
cent. upon the gross receipts; provided the
duty imposed in this section shall not be
charged upon persons or vessels exclusive
ly engaged in carrying persons or property,
or both, to and from any port in the United
States, to and from any foreign ports.
On motion of Mr.. Harris, ferries were in
cluded in the provisions of the section.
The tax on Express companies was de-
creased, on motion of Mr.. Harris, from to
215 per cent.
An amendment of Mr.. Collamer, laying
an additional tax of 2 per cent on incomes
of persons abroad, who are citizens of the
United States, was adopted.
HoUsE.-Mr. Stevens, of Pa, reported
substitute to the Senate bill, amendatory of
the Pacific railroad act, passed July, 1862,
the consideration of which was postponed
until Thursday.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, remarked that
the committee on Ways and Means had di-
rected him to suggest that the entire day
be given to the discussion of the tariff bill,
and that tomorrow the debate be confined
to five minute speeches. On his motion it
was resolved that the House, at 4:30 to-day,
take a recess until 1880.
Mr.. Smith, of Ky, moved that when the
House adjourned tomorrow, it be till Mon
day week.
The Speakerreplied that the House could
not thus adjourn.
The House then went into committee of
the Whole, Mr.. Schenck in the chair, and
took up the tariff bill.
Mr.. Morrill,, of Vermont, stated the rea-
sons for change in the tariff. The Treas
ury required large supply of means. The
Increase ofinternal duties made cOnsidera-
Bile increase of duties of foreign importa-
tions necessary. Wool, cloth and iron can
not now he produced as cheap as three
years ago. An increased tax on the luXIl-
ries of life and fashion would be blessing
if larger means can be secured for the sup
preston of the rebellion. He did not be-
lieve the war would be protracted after the
rebel army was annihilated. The object of
the bill was to increase the revenue, and at
the same time nurture our domestic pro-
ducts, and thus secure increased internal
revenue. AS to the depreciation of the
currency, he said though decisive victory
will prove short remedy, still, perhaps,
the most effectual remedy will be to cease
the issue OF legal tenders, and rely upon
United States stocks. The committee did
not recommend prohibitory duties because
the Government seeks revenue. This was
war measure and temporary in its charac-
ter and as such he believed the country
would approve Oft
Mr.. Cox, of Ohio, said he had, in 1861,
protested against the tariff then pending
as great fiscal tyranny-a mountain of
burden OH the West. The present bill is an
aggravation of the tariff of 1862 The Gov
ernment credit demanded taxation, but not
class legislation nor sectional advantages.
He would not accept every plan of taxa
ton representing not the rich and poor al
together, but principle. He demanded that
the benefits of taxation shall not inure
wholly to one class, its benefits fall wholly
on another. He proposed to discuss the
benefits accruing to manufacturing classes,
and the burden imposed on the agricultur-
al and consuming classes, by the present
tariff and deprecated paper currency.
In order to pay for one hundred dollars
worth of goods in England, when gold is
at sixty, the American merchant, owing to
the price of exchange, must pay $l.74 in
our paper; and when he brings that amount
here, in order to reimburse, he must sell it
for $l.4 of our currency, with freight and
duty supcradded. Then the duties are to
be paid in gold. If the duty is forty per
cent. ad ualOrem and gold at sixty, he must
add sixty per cent. to the forty dollars,
which is equal to twentyfour dollars; ow-
ing to the fifty per cent. recently added to
the tariff rates, he must pay in thirty-two
dollars more, so that a consumer, in conse-
quence of deprecated paper and gold
duties, has to pay two hundred and seventy
dollars or one hundred and seventy per
cent in addition to the cost, for every hun
dred dollars worth of goods imported, with
a duty of forty per cent. and the fifty per
cent. additional to this is to be added for
the freight and charges, and at least ten
per cent. profit to the importer.
At this point of cost the article imported
comes in competition with the home arti-
Gle, and the aggregate of the items above
the protection or bounty, which
the tariff robs from the consumer for the
Thus labor is taxed on one
pursuit for the labor and capital in another.
Mr.. Cox then showed that by the tariff of |
1862, on the data above, iron received
bounty of over $50 per cent. on paper |
basis, in consequence of the difference of |
and duty, freight and importers
profits; or the home manufacturer of iron
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