New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-13
TyvE TARIFF POsTPONTD.


We announce, with equal regret and surprise, the
postponement to next Winter of The House Tariff BILL
by e vote Of % to II in the Senate viz:
YEAS TO Postpone Messrs. Sumner and Wilson Of Mass
Foster Of Conn, Harris and Morgan Of N y. Riddle and
salisbury Of Dell johnson QsverdO Of Nd. Wiley OF West
Va Davis aud Guthrie of KY Hendricks and Lane Of Ind
Trnmbu If H. Dooitte Of Wis, Norton Of Mimi Grimes
and Krkwood Of Iowa Brown and Henderson OF Mo- Pome
roy Of Kansas Nesmith and Williams of Oregon
NAYs-Messrs Fessenden of Maine Clark and Cragin OF
~ H. Edmund aud Poland OF W. Anthony and sPrague Of
r. L. Cowan Of Pa. Van Wrinkle Of West Va, Sherman and
Wade of Ohio Chandler and Howard Of Mich Howe Of Wis,
Ramsey Of Mnn Stewart Of Nevada and Conncs Of Caof-
mall
A Washington dispatch speaks Of the bill as
beaten by the votes Of the purely Agricultural States
which seems to us unjust. 1t is beaten by the iiye
votes of Massachusetts, Connecticut and New-fOrk-
all cast by Republicans of Wing antecedents, who
used to profess faith in the statesmanshp oil
Henry Clay. Put the saddle on the right
horse! If tho ten thousand American women
and children whom this bill would have
provided with remunerative employment in the
Cigar manufacture alone, or the hundreds OF thousands
of mechanics and aborers whom it would have set to
work erecting factories, furnaces, iounderies, &C.
filling them with machinery, and running them, look
around for the authors of their misfortune let them
not wander off to Indiana and Iowa, but fix their
eyes on Messrs. Sumner, Wilson, Foster, Harris and
Morgan.
1t seems to us that a square rejection of the bill
would have been far preferable to this posponement
There is an urgent public necessity, even apart
from any requirement of Home Labor that our In
pora,ons should be reduced, so that the export Of
our Government gold bearing bonds, to be sold for
two-thirds of their face, shall be brought to final
stop We ought to be buying back the bonds already
exported rather than exporting millions after mill
lions more Of these onerous mortgages on the
labor ofour children and grandchildren. Bat this
postponement says plainly TO the importers " In
prove your time Pour in the goods cram the
bonded warehouses to bursting as to be ready to
take advantage the advance in prices which your
organs say must follow that enhancement OF the
Tariff which is likely to be made next Winter Thus
the grave perplexities Of our Commercial and Finan
cal position are certain to be aggravated by The
Senate equivocal action on this measure.
We can appreciate the considerations which gov
erned the votes Of Messrs. Sumner Wilson and Fos-
ter They are tired of listening to demagogue denun
cations OF Nee. ENGLAND as sehshly demanding Pro
lection for her own special benefit when in fact New
England could better endure absolute Free Trade than
could any other section and her Manufacturers have
far more to apprehcnd from rivals IN the South
and West than in Europe. When the repre-
seutatiyes Of a State teeming with Coal Iron,
Lead, &c., like Missouri, yet which has few
furnaces in operation and scarcely spindle or wheel
running on her abundant wa,erpower, vote against
Protection, they may well be tempted to say, LET
the blind have their head They will sooner come
right thus than otherwise" BIT this is the clever
ness of smart politicians, not tho dictate OF true
craftsmanship We trust it is not always to prevail
Nov, gentlemen of the Senate the Tariff bill
is parayzed Tor the present-the flooding Of our
markets with foreign goods, to be paid for with bills
drawn On posterity, TO receive new impetus-ehdi
1iH you do to contract our TedundaHt Currency \
higher tariff was one mode of preventing excessive
Importation: You have killed that; will you now
adjourn without providing for contraction through
SPEEDY and rapid funding Of our National Debt and
Paper Curroncyl II you do, and disasters should
follow, you will be held to a stern responsibility