The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-08
COLUMBIA.
Sunday Morning, July 8. 1866.
Another Veto Dcrnansaed.

Another measure of plundering the
producing interests of the country,
whether in the agricultural, mechani-
cal or mercantile departments of
labor, is about to be passed by the
faction at Washington, III the new
tariff bill. The New York Herald
well calls it the "caowning act of in
famous legislation, corruption and
imbecility of the present Congress,
and vehemently demands another
veto from the President. It is bill,
it says, that, if rightly named, should
be called bill to enrich few New
England and Pennsylvania manufao-
turers, and q few rich merchants,
who have large stocks of goods ON
hand, at the expense Of the rest OF
the community. -
The iniquity of this intended
fraud upon the material interests OF
the country, lies in the fact Usas there
Is sse 'sscessity for IL The tariff Of
last year, estimated, when it was
adopted, to yield $4,000, 900, pro-
duced $40, 100000. The effect of
the scheme will be, and doubtless its
object was, to enrich an already
bloated monopoly, at the expense and
from the pockets of the farmers Of
the Northwest, the planters of the
South, the mechanics, and, in short,
of all the industrial classes of the
country. This is easily shown, as
this iniquitous tariff is invariably le-
We'd upon the articles which those
classes consume.
The National Lateuigencer, of the
Sd instant, speaking of this bill, ex-
presses its conviction that it will Ger
tainly pass, and that its Objectionable
provisions will not be modified, ex-
cept for the purpose of increasing the
enormous rates Of duties proposed by
the committee.
We have not seen the published
bill as proposed by the Committee,
butwe may refer to one of its sections,
which provides for such an increase
of the duty on railroad iron as that
under it, every ton of railroad iron
would afford, including duty and
charges, a protection to the domestic
iron works of Joriy-eight dollars.
This, while it would effect materi-
ally the railroad interests of the
country, would be peculiarly oppres-
sive on the Southern States, in the
present crippled condition of all their
railroads.
The injustice of the proposed mea-
snre is moro forcibly illustrated in
the fact that even Boston merchant
writing in opposition to it, proposes
q public meeting to deprecate the
new rates, and to repudiate the whole
schedule as unjust, arbitrary and in
furious. he says:
'.New England needs no furthe,
protection than she already enjoys;
but she is ma the scape-goat Of the
Western wool growers and the Penn.
sylvania iron men, who fear the i'm.
portation of foreign wool and iron,
and who have gone all lengths to Sc
cure the passage of the appalling
tariff which now stares us in the face.
and threatens to affect detrimentally
every man, woman and child in the
country. There is no time to be lost
In this matter, and for the sake of the
merchants, the manufacturers, the
dealers, and the consumers, we warn
the influential men among us to give
to this subject their instant and ear
nest consideration.
The National LateUigence,., although
apparently opposed to the bill, does
not intimate that tho President will
veto it. We hope ne may, but are
disposed to think with the Journal of
Commerce, that the only remedy for
this evil legislation is to elect wiser,
more liberal and more national repre-
sentatives to the next Congress.
State Items.
LAURENs. sheriff of Laurens
District gives notice to defendants in
execution, that all executions not