New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1866-07-06

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place may be supplied by any of the othe
judges; that citizen, aggrieved by tn
aopon OF a justice OF the peace or probat
Jndget may appeal to the district court that i
elections by ballot, it shah be unlawful for an
person to place upon a ballot any mark or devic
sy which the voter might he identified the penalt
oelng $500 fine ana six months Imprisonment
that ~ AL suits in which the United States are no
I party the officers fees may be charged to th'
proper parties; that the office of eutenantgen
eral IN Utah is prohibited and the laws relative Il
II aphalled. The section relative to the militia re
| qnres the enrolling and mastering of these, and 6
report from the commandegn-ehief to the secre
tary of war Of the United States, Aliens shall no
be enrolled. Marriages shall be solemnized by
justices of the supreme court and by ministers o
the gospel regularly ordained, who are required Il
sign and deliver certificates with the names, ages
and places of residence.
The Senate, in executive session on the Both con
irmed the following nominations: Charles Hun
ter, to be 8 commander of the navy on the re
tired list Charles Davis, to be surveyor of GUS
toms at Nashville, Tenn; A. G. Grant TO be post
master at Jefferson Barracks, ST. Louis Mo-; I. l..
Suthbert, naval officer at Charleston, S. c.; NJ F.
| conway; OF Virginia, formerly member of CON
/ gress from Kansas, to be consul at Marseles
Inc Dill recently reported from the House com
mttee on the Judiciary, for the establishment of
national bureau OF insurance, makes the bureau
setsuStaning while it offers security in the matter
OF insurance, by requiring all companies who NAV
act under the'law to deposit United States bonds,
the amounts varying according to their capital
stock M party is permitted to transact fire. ma
rpe and life insurance at the same time The oh.
ject of the proposed legislation is to give every
company an opportunity to show its solvepcy, in
order that the public may be guarded against
fraud the principle being similar to that now an
piled to national banking associations
The June report OF the Agricultural Committee
gives comparison between the amount Of raw
cotton imported from the United States into Great
Britain during four months of last year and the
four corresponding months of the present year
1t exceeds the quantity imported from India by
almost one hundred per cent, and almost exactly
equals the total from all other localities. It is
equivalent to j03,726 bales of 400 pounds each.
The report says half million Of bales in four
months and $40, 600 are respectable figures in
the trade with one foreign nation even for the
Palmest days OF cotton shipping from the ports of
the United States. The report also shows that
Great Britain buys this season ten times as much
wheat from Russia as from the United States and
from france nearly six times as much. Only
Htue more than four per cent. of her seven mil
lions of hundred weight are brought from the
United States. The commissioner of internal
revenue mas granted permission, free Of tax or
expense, TO hold national gift concert on the %
OF August, in Washington, for the benefit of tile
Soldiers and Sailors National Orphans Home
fund.
oNGREssIoNAL-HoUsE. ...
WASHINGTON June 30.-The House went into
and resumed the consideration OF the tariff bill
Mr.. Harding objected to taxing the people Of the
West for the benefit of Eastern manufacturers.
Mr., Kelley (Pa) argued that impost duties did
not have the effect to increase the cost of articles
Mr.. Harding Tidculed the assertion. Hetnsisted
upon reduction Of duties in behalf of the West,
CQt nails could be made cheaper if the duty were
taken off.
Mr. Dawes (AIass.) said that, under the influence
Of the protection principle, cut nails had fallen in
price. The people of the country had Droited nv
protection. Competition had sprung up. We !
were no longer dependent upon England. The |
tarn olli could be framed only on one of two prin
cipes; laying the duty the raw material, or the
article. The effect must be to bring /
u the manufactured article or the laborer himself
The article must be manufactured on this side of
-ne water, or upon the other. If on this side, the
aborer will enrich the country, and Illinois more
han any other State. If Illinois wants wealth
he must have laborers; and she can only have
hem By giving them employment
MIR. M0rill's amendment was adopted
Mr.. Morrill, moved an amendment taxing railroad
ron cent per pound.
Mr.. Wilson (Iowa) moved to amend the amend.
lent so as to make the duty 10 cents per 100
ounds' he referred to the reduction of the in
ernal revenue tax on railroad and pig iron and
aought that ought to satisfy the iron.rollers
Mir, Griswold said that manufacturers of railroad
ION had been losing money for three or four
ears. Mr.. wilson amendmentwas blow at the
turing interest of the country and at tha
est means of securing general prosperity,
Mr.. Raymond gave some statistics and figures
howing the effect of the proposed amendment
10 wanted to see the time come when manufac.
qting esta3hshments could protect themselves
normous protection to benefit the iron.rollers.
Mr.. GARFIELD (Ohio) said the iron interest Of the
oounlry should not be destroyed by the interests
I Iorelgn manufacturers. Those who desired to
&c Inc IRON trade forever secured to England
night vote for the proposition of the gentleman
ON Iowa. In 1850 bill was actually introduced
ITO the British Parliament ordering every iron
~ IN America to be demolished and it lacked
MY thirty-tWo votes of being carried A propo.
ton was carried that no iron mill shonId he F
'ected, and no rip-hammer erected to be run nv
in America The colonies might F,
roduce the raw material and ship it to England
mere was the same sort of issue still
Mr.. Dodge spoke in favor of increased protee. a
on Tor railroad iron, and predicted that under III Il
us would spring up all over the West. o
MI. Alls0n favored reduction of the DUTY The p
n interest oughtto be satisfied with the present s
Mr. Stevens (Pa.) said thathe regretted that the
'utn had not taken away with the free trade !
C trines that now seem to be located along the e
sslssippl' Ihrty years ago, before there were i
y follng mills IN Pennsylvania for iron bars of a
is KIND, the price of the article imported from a
lgland was more than three times what it was :
e years ago, before the war. The reduction was K
USED simply by protecting American interests d
d yet gentlemen cannot see it or understand il
icy are blind to everything but theory which
mot be reduced to practice without crushing
the interests of the country. England can send =
iron here, because the price of labor there is F
ly one-third what it is here. The price Of iron :
insists Of one-twentieth capital aud nineteen /
enteths labor 1t is at labor, therefore, that n
2 opponents ofthe duty are striking 1t ia labor Ia
1ich the Free Trade League is trying to crush II
Mr.. Wilson'S amendment reducing the duty to b,
cents per 100 pounds, the present rate, was D
reed to by vote of so to 40. -
lts opponents, however rallied on the next vote tn
Mr.. Morril's amendment, to which Mr., vii Or
} s was an amendment, was rejected by AS to b.
thus leaving the paragrah as in the original pc
!, making the duty cent per pound. m m
IN motion of Mr.. Griswold, a paragraph was an ~
erted, putting the duty of cents per pound on y
way frogs, ETC. pa
n motion Of Mr, Ames, the duty on, steel was q
reased from As to so per cent.
lr. Eirldge moved to insert paragraph as fol-
r.: "on all bonds, certificates Of stock. or -
er evidence of indebtedness of the United s.
ties or any State, brought back or returned for
7ment, sale, or collection before due, 10 per r
It. dd Udlorent' F y
IN motion of Mr. Dodge, the duty on cripone S G5
e was increased from 10 10 cents pound. to-
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