The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1869-12-02
SPEAKER BLAINE ON RECIPROCITY.
AUGUSTA, Me. . Nov.

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Hon. JAS. b. DASCoMB, Skowhegan, Nc.
Ny DEAR SIR: From conversation had with
secretary Fish in Washington a short time since.
i"el Justified IN saying that there is no foundation
whatever for the rllmor that the state Department
Is negotiating another Reciprocity Treaty with the
British Provinces. Under the Resolution passed
by the House of Representatives ut the last session
of Congress the Secretary of State would not feel
authorized to open negotiations except upon the
two points relating to the Fisheries and the naviga-
ton of the st. Lawrence. which are. of course, to
be adjusted only through the Treaty -making pow
en- In regard to the whole question of the duties
on Imports. the House of Representatives hold that
the regulation thereof belongs in the first instance
70 their body. where the Constitution has. in plain
and explicit terms, lodged the right of originating
Revenue Bills The Reciprocity Treaty, lately eN-
pred, was made in papable disregard of the privi-
rgeS and immuniticS OF the popular branch of Con-
%irsS, and this Infringement. in my Judgment. Will
not herepeated If The President and the Senate
make a treaty dispensing with existing duties on
alatldn products, they may do the same touching
English products and thus. in effect, destroy the
entire power Of the House of Representatives in
The enactment of laws for raising revenue. This
would not give the House any voice at all in the
designed that the power of taxation should be pri
marily and mdiSputably located with the immediate
Representatives OF the people so that the popular
Will and Judgment could be most directly and most
speedily reflected and that the responsibility of
the lblic agent could neither be questioned, divd
el nor cyaled
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