The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1866-07-11

Z 2 = The New, rasia:
- Even their own newspapers can
not stand the new tariff bill of the
radicals. The New York Post, one
of the most influential organs of Re-
publicanisu,, says:
Eve cannot doubt that the Presi
! dent will veto this oppressive bill. He
is too enlightened statesman, and
too impartial lover of the whole
country, to give his consent to q
scheme whose efforts will be, as we
have frequently shown, to cripple our
foreign commerce, to increase the
present high prices Of the necessa-
ries of life, to retard the progress
Of the country, to grant monopolies
to a few manufacturing capitalists,
and to seduce the scanty laboring
force of the country from profitable
into Improbable employments.
"What is needed is revenue tariff,
and we hope some members of Con-
gress will take the trouble to frame q
bill to chat end, and propose it. In
the meantime, we trust the members
from the Southern States,- who can
take the oath, will be admitted to-
their seats.
-. sFWe warn the prohibitionists that
they ride too high a horse for safety.
They are trying to force most hate
full and wicked scheme upon the
country That is bad enough, but
they are, at the same time, keeping
out, the Representatives. of the South-
ern States. Are they doing this in
order to make sure of their own
schemes? Is it to secure the passage
of this prohibitive and destructive
bill, that they refuse to admit the
Southern members? It would seem
30, from their high-handed course. =
s'The American people will not
tolerate such legislation; they win
sweep away, at the first opportunity,
men so faithless to the general vel
fare, there are already signs to show
that the men who vote for this tariff,
especially under the aggravating cir
cumstances of the exclusion from de-
bate and vote of the Southern men,
bers, will be left in small majority
IN the next Congress.
: 1t appears that the proposed tariff
bill amounts almost to prohibition
on certain articles of hardware. A
writer III the New York World shows
up this feature of the bill as follows:
1t is now proposed, by taxing the
importation of pocket cutlery, cost
ing under SIS, with specific duty of
75c. per dozen, and costing SIS per
dozen and above, with 50 per dozen,
In addition to so per cent. ad vol.: to
tax every child's knife costing Cd.
sterling per dozen, Or G. II. value,
l2c:, with both rates of tax, Sc.
which is 6.66 per cont. On every
boys knife, which cost Is Sd. or Soc.
per dozen, the two duties will amount
to 90c., equal to 300 per cent; and
on every farmers knife, costing 3s.
or re, the tariff will be Sill, or
154 per cent; whilst the duty on all
pocket knives costing custom house
value, 72c. to SO. 6S, will average 72 per
cent. Surely the present tariff of SO
per cent. should be enough to satisfy
any one.
In table cutlery. n considerable
quantity is imported, which cost Gs.
per gross, OF $l.44. The specific
duty, as the clause passed the House,
is l2c. per dozen. OF S144 per gross,
which, with the IS per cent. 0d cal.
is 81 %, equal to 145 per cent. The
table cntlery extensively used through
the country costing los, or So Sc per
gross, the specific and ud rol. duty is
50. Is, or 81 per cent. Ivory table
knives, costing IS. per dozen, or
S1.44, is to bear specific duty of 81
per dozen, and ad cal. 40 per cent,
together $1.65, or 115 per cent, and
q los. table knife G. H., value 50. ~,
with both rates, bears q duty of
90, equal to Sc per cent. Now,
was it not reasonable that the present
tariff of 35 per cent. should be sutfi-
cient, or could there not be modera-
ton enough TO dispense with the spe-
chic now proposed?
An English 12-inch hat-bastard
file, used by nearly every mechanic,
custom house value 100, with the
proposed heavy specific of 81 per
dozen, is taxed 81 per cent, whilst
German files, being of less cost, are
taxed, on the average, 141 per cent.
The proposed duty on German
wrought nails varies from III to 155
pcr cent. {; halter and dog chains, 81
per cent. ;coil chains, s110 to 1876 per
cent; trace chains, 1874 to l54 per