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

toward supporting this Government, for
PROOF that there would be great injury
wrong to them, If this duty be en-
HANGED.
Mr., FRsssSDEN. Allow me to say, in
Justice to the committee, they have not
taken any such foolish course, Thew
do not take things for granted. there
mas been no matter that has come before
the committee, whether one side or the
other, out they have tax n special pains
to examine closely into the subject aad
see the true ground of the statements
made, and arrive at a conclusion salts.
factory to our minds, Wedo not do our
business in the committee in the way
the Senator supposes.
Mr.. EDMUNDs. l did not say the com.
mittee took anything for granted |
said that the committee evidently acted
upon vague representations rather than
upon data, because / invite either of nv
friends on that committee now to tell
this Senate If they can, what is the in
! voice cost of Cararra marble, not the
statuary, but the other marble that ia
Imported, in the city of New York. I
wish TO know what the data they had
before them were upon which it was
made manifest to them that these Ital.
ians are going to be ruined if they paya
dollar Il cubic foot and diminish their
profits.
Mr.. WILLIAMS | will say to the Sen
ator that there was a printed memoria!
| submitted TO the committee q supposed
when he commenced the discussion that
had it in my drawer, but | am not
able TO lay my hand on it now y there
| was an elaborate memorial that contain
ed all the figures necessary to make It
appear That those persons would be
ruined in case this tariff was imposed
| As TO their being Italians, | can only
say that thew speak the English Ian
guage and appeared to be Americans.
MIR. EDMUNDs. | have no doubt that
they had printed memorial, and that
was the evidence upon which the COM
mittee appear to have proceeded-the
statistics in this printed memorial
! which is not now forthcoming. venture
to say that if my friend from Oregon.
| whose reputation as a good LAWYER is
vrry high, and Justly, had cross-ex-
amincd one Of those gentlemen a little
| and had asked him definitely what was
the invoice price, the sworn invoice
price, of these marbles in the city Of
New York, and then had asked him
what was the price the same men got
for the same marble in the C!ty,Of New
York, he would have found that where
the invoice price may have been little
above two dollars, including all costs
and charges and overything, as have
stated, the price that the dealer got for
his marble exceeded five dollars. There
fore, if he had spent little of his skill.
in Cross-eXamining that man he would
have demonstrated that he ought to
share with the Government little more
OF the enormous profits he was making
| ask for the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered and
being taken, resulted-yeas Is nays
% as follows
Tcas-Messrs, Chandler, Cresweu
Dixon, Edmunds, Fogg, Fowler, Ere
linghuysen, Harris, Hendricks Poland
Sprague, Wade and Willey-13.
NayS-Messrs. Buckalew, Cattell, Con
ness, Cowan, Davis, Doolittle, Fessenden
Grimes, Henderson, Lane, Morgan, Nor,
ton, Patterson Ramsey, Riddle, Sher-
man, Stewart, Sumner, Trumbull, Van
Wrinkle, Williams and WiIlson-22.
-Ajsent-Messrs. Anthony, Brown
Cragin, Foster, Guthrie, Howard, Howe
johnson, Kirkwood, McDougall, Morrill,
Nesmith, Nye, POmeroy, Ross, Sauls-
bury, and YatCs-l7.