Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-02-07

price at 90 o. the price 10 the trade In
the city of New York
Now, just look at 1t in another point
OF view and see how II has worked for
revenue, II the Senator will turn to the
volume OF Commercial Relations he will
discover that | have not quoted from
the Vermont men for this he will see
that when the the tariff which he says
was made Ia 1864 was passed, raising
the duty to fny cents per foot and
twenty per cent. al paloreDl, there was
imported in the year 1864 marble TO the
value of sos, 476, the duties on which
were si3,390. That of course was be-
fore the act of 1864 took effect. In 1865,
under the operation Of that act, while
| the importation was reduced in value to
SSi, G8l, the duties rose to S8l $50, max
ing an absolute increase to the revenue
on this one article alone at that one port
of S3S,2l5.
Mr.. FEssENDEN How much would
the revenue have been increased If the
article had not been excluded
MIR. EDMuNDs. 1t would probably
| have increased it to about as much as it
would to exclude Albertite from the
works of Maine. | do not know how
mnrh IT wonId increase il to exclude it
aItogether brt where there is a net
! profit of more than one hundred per
cent. upon each cubic foot that the i'm
porter now brings in, | take it there is
not much danger in increasing the tariff
! tlltv cents per loot, which is just about
trn men. cent an the retail price of his
sales
Ar Fpsspxnr< The Senator will
| notice a difference between marble and
,Ihcr,ito ae hc calls it Whereas he de.
eirss q 5onbIp dutv to he nut upon mar
! hla wa are content with an increased
dntv on Albertite
Nj, Fn,,rvns Very well am not
! c,u,Iai,inp of NV friends Alhertite
ON onlv eeUino that th8t kind of Justice
yyhicb he demands for himself and for
| tho interest," mat he represents he ought
~ NO wiIlino IN ex+p~d 10 other sections
nf,l, cnrr+I,,
! AR F,ssvxnpv Am and if the Sen.
,tor viii only demonstrate that there
! h.. r.,n INV change to render it anv
n,nr... cumbersome for the Vermont mar
| hIo To contand with foreion marble since
| 1891 whom we know there has been q
| AN in ~. nricas or living and no in
croasa in th., nrico of WAGES and il was
fved tben 10 snit What thew demanded
! ebaI he inclined IN ravor an increase
of tbn dntv
| M Er,I,->,,s ya bovn yet IN learn
in NV section Of the country that there
hoe boon onv fall in nrice Of WAGES or in
10 WHOA ofivino
|
i,croo,o sirca +bor
Mr. Fnvrxns will remind nv
fr;ord tbot since 1894 when as he saws
nav constituents oot this fxpd Ia snit
themselves there has hepn q very heavy
inornooo If intorroI ravanno +ovps and
10 r,orbIo ,vorkaro of Vermont and
everv other Stato-hpcanse 7 beg to re.
r,ind lin, +bot +bie ia not merely Yer
ronrt ir+orost- -hova hpon most heavily
tovod NV i2tarnaI taxation And he
sides tbat the difference In exchange and
tbn mice Of Gold have 50 changed from
that time tn This az to make an enOr-
mons difference AGAINST them in that re-
snprt 81 that thew do not stand any
thing like on the same ground that they
did in 1851
Now, therefore. if YOU. find, as the ex-
pertinent which has been tried dem
onstrates that YOU will, that by making
the importer share some larger part Of
his enormous profits with the govern.
ment, YOU increase the revenue, while
Won still are able to supply the market
from YOUR home production and thereby
increase YOUR internal revenue bv tax
alton and develope your industry,
think YOU ought to do it. Its not Yer.
mont alone by any means that is in
terested in a question Of this descrip.
ton. Let me assure nv friend that
there are a great many other places in
the United States where marble not
only exists but is absolutely worked
capital is invested in it, labor is produc.
ing it. The localities of white marble
in the United States are Vermont, Yves
tern Massachusetts. New York west of
the city. PENNSYLVANIA. MARYLAND. Vir.
gina, the Carolnas, Georgia and AL
ALBANIA. Pursuing down the whole
eastern range of the Alleghanies, extend
tending from the Canada line 10 the
Gulf of Mexico, white marble exists