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

must legislate for the general average of
that description of occupation.
We fluid, thea that the importer of this
foreign marble can well share his enor-
nous profits with the government by
paving little higher tax. We find that
il will not be a tax on the consumer
although that consumer who uses the
foreign marble is your rich man and not
your poor one, because there is not one
house la fifty iu the Emitted States that
contains any marble article OF furniture
or ornament whatever, unless 1t may be
some little mantle ornament, vase or
something Of that kind that is made
from kind Of stucCO prepared from
marble dust, but of real marble there is
not one house in atty among the habita-
tions of the citizens of the United States
that has particle OF it inside of its
doors. 1t comes almost under the same
head that champagne and clarct and
Burgundy and cigars do; things that
the rich or those who have money to
spend for luXures, whether rich or not,
choose to have. Therefore it ought to
be taxed more than other articles and
as have demonstrated, on account OF
the great extent of the product in this
country and the great amount Of capital
and labor already invested in it, there is
no danger that there will not be a sutllc-
lent supply, and no danger that the
price will be cnhanched by increasing
this duty. The only result Will be that
while you thus stimulate to large
degree home production, you will in
crease your revenue and not increase the
price u,... ,l.-,u.-;.,.,,..o
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~ 'C'ION ~ 49,
representatives of this interest and the
REPRESENTATIVES of those who are engaged
in working marble were before the com.
,nittcp and both sides of this question
were there heard, and this report was
fixed with reference to the interests Of
All concerned as well as with reference
10 the interest of the country so far as
the question related to revenue.
Nh. EDNFYps. Allow me to ask nv
friend q question. Nav INQUIRE what
representatives OF the marble-produc-
inc interest were before the committee
Mn WILLIAMS I do not know their
names. cannot now remember their
names
Nh FnWrNDs Can Won tell where
their 0narrips were
Ns WILLIAMS. 7 supDOse thew were
in Vermont Int I am not certain about
that
Mn FDvryns shOuld he very Glad
to have more definite information on
that subject
,,
NJ h. / ESShNpbN' 10 noU IuLnA any
NeI'nou' lu"lo'e ''en were oeIoie VIC
committee
Mr.. EDMUNDs. My information is that
the marble workers of New York and
Philadelphia, three fOurtbs of whom are
unnaturaized foreigners Italians as | am
told (and from my own experience think
that is so,) were before the committee ;
but the marble producers, relying upon
the examination which was had upon
the House bill, and not informed that
there was to be any attack upon it., had
no opportunity OF being heard. | am
not complaining that the committee did
not give them hearing they ought to
have attended TO it, | agree.
Mr.. WILLIAMS. | am not advised as
to where these men lived who appeared
before the committee, Tut am quite
confident that the view Of the subject
which the Senator has presented here to-
day was presented to and considered by
the committee in connection with the
statement made by those engaged in
working marble in this country, and those
persons represented to US that they were
prepared with their figures las all these
persons are who come to make represent
atoms in reference to the tariff 30 show
that if this additional duty be imposed
upon marble imported into this country
1t will be ruinous to their business.
1t seems to me that If the object be to
protect labor by the imposition Of duties
it is necessary that we should take into
consideration the labor Of the men who
are engaged in working marble and
making statues and furniture and other
articles out Of marble, as much as the
interests Of the particular men who are
taxing the marble out Of the gr"und.
They say to US (of course there is no
way to verify what they say that if we
impoSp this tariff uDOn marble imported