Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1870-03-30

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themselves and 60 before the people at the next
election with ''no duty on salt" | believe they
would win. Ihave no doubt We shall be tod
by the gentleman from Pennsylvania of that
discovery of rock salt in Louisiana which re.
ouircs protection. Put it on something else,
but let salt be free. Reduce the duty on sugar
do not stand so much on your Secretary oil
States dignity: help Cuba substantially give
rs cheap sugar. [ remember very we'll your
neutrality about Texas; | happened to be IN
New Orleans about that time. The same neu-
trality 10 the case of Cuba would have given
her to US long since, and saved an immense loss
to the people of that island.
ask the Clerk to read the following letter.
The Clerk read as follows:
ALEXANDRIA, Va, March q, 1870.
Dear Sir: In response to your inquiries IN
regard to salt, l would state first that salt Is
sold by the Washington County Salt Company
at 8eS cents per bushel Of 80 pounds-say 10 lbs
less than actually required to make an hones!
psny its productions are habitually sold enough
lower in Lynchburg to make 1t frequently
chesper to the people Of Wythe county to buy
theiT s,lt st thai place, thus paying q taz by lis
reshipment of the freight 2G4 miles by ran on
such purchases. WyIheviile IL, say AZ NILS
o Of salt works, and Lynchburg is 1872 miles
osst If Wvthevilie. Tho salt then is sent east
BY Wytho to Lynchburg outward TO "ytne,
villa altar 264 miles OF extra travel 1T less IMAM
it can bs purchased ct and brought elrsJtly
from tho salt works. In addition to travel J.!
no doub. pays handling. commission ana
storops &C.. when sent to Lynchburg. lnis
statement must provo conclusiVely the eHort
nous profits it pays to the manufacturers. ply
their rapid accumulation OF ricnes as at.ostou
by very extensive purchases OF real estate lI
cash throughout the southwest OF Virgins IS
we'll as their reports Of income must be nela
conclusive as to the extent which th!s lormla-
able monopoly has been fostered oy the high
tariff i1nposod on this article Of necessity the
one indispensable article alike TO every mar
and beast on the earth inuisI ensable TO rich
and door and monopDlists are protected IN ex-
tortion in supplying q section OF country Oh
hundreds of sauare miles and peopled by thou
sands of stock raising people, who arc from ne
rnseiCy extensive consumer. From LyGchDurg
to Knoxville. counties in North Carolina, anu
in Kentucky, and West Virginia. have now
from hirh duties, coupled with heavy freignts,
no alternative but to submit to the exactlons OF
these people, these patrons o. Federal policy,
q policy which scarcely acquires revenue
enough to tho General Government to pay Tor
its collection, yot compels thousands OF abJect
people TO fatten q few purse-proude Xtortnonlst'
Tor tho very salt which Seasons their poor food.
K. NJ. LAWSON.
Hon. LEWIS MCKENZIE,
House of Representatives.
p. SIN view of the decline in gold and the
strong probability of a reduction in duties, salt
on the sesbosrd hes declined IL price, but no
change has occurred ct !hese works rs lar as 1
have heard. Wholesale here: ground alum
salt 81 co, fno salt s. 70 to 81 3O-same IN bhlti'
mora.
Mr.. Mckenzie. There is annually con
sumed by each person about 20 rgunus VI
sucar, the duty Oh which is about 81; also.
about G pounds Ct coffee, the duty On "nicn Is
about 80 cents. .
Mr., MCCARTHY. The gentleman has stated
the amount Of sug which each pcrsna Ill the
couotry Consumes. viii lie state thu aiuonn'
O. suit consumed on the average ~ each per
son? :,
iIr. Mckenzie. I knov the co-t Of the salt
is not very large. The duty would not
amount to Il great deal. J. have not he'd time
to get together the figures Oh that point.
Mr.. Mccarthy. VIII! the gantieIaaI i"rmlt
me to tell him the amount?
to have the gentle nan state Ii. til1k he
has tod us once before. Lfught@r.
MIR. Mccarthy. The gentleman may have
forcotten the statement.
Or. Mckenzie. Ishall be very happy 10
hear it again.
Mir. Mccarthy. The amount ia 80 pounds
annually to each person ; ani the Whole du'y
to each person is 6 cents.
Mr.. Mckcnzie. The duties Collected Gu
coffee in 1869 were Sll, $40, us; on sugar; 49,
GA, 79l, aud on salt $l,lT5,S9 Total,
$40, 81, 40j. These articles might safely be
reduced one half, if no. made fec.
The little time | have been here, with the
pressing calls from a dislricc unreprcSentcd IN
this Hall for nine gears, requires Q great deal
| Of patience. particularly under the load Of dis
abilities the Representatives from Virginia
have had to carry, has not enabled Tie 10 looS
| into this matter as fully as | Wonid like to dh.
Older and wiser heads will doubtless do so,
and l must content myself when the till m
! ND section by section to re governed by the
| best advice | can get on the subject, and act
accordingly. hope, hlr. Chairman. as ore
of the humblest O.! tue Virginia Represcn-
| tatives, | may be allowed to say this much.
r. is possible some gentlemen Oh this moor inty
| saw Let VIRGINIA pay what is pu; on her;
| she has loeri in rebellion, and has 10 right to
speak " and some may he sorry she has re
turned to her allegiance and occupies a place
on this floor; but they ought to remember she
is one Of the old thirteen that formed this
States. They ought to welcome her back
with giadncss not with coIdncss and indif:
ference. Her people perhaps were wrong,
but they gre generous and kind heated, have
suffered greatly, have endured hardshlps
unparalleled in the history Of the world. Let
her take her place in the family OF States with
no unkind feelings har6ored against her.
In the House Of Representatives, yesterday, |
Mr Logan attacked Gen. Sherman's rccant
letter against the proposed reduction Of the
army, and 4 running debate between him and
Mr. Slocum upon the subject o. the number
and pay OF the officers of the army took place.
Mr.. Logan charged General Sherman with
making 4 personal attack 1904 him and cndeu.
voring to dictate to Congress. The conclusion
Of MIR. Logan's speech was applauded in the
galleries.
Gov. Palmer, of Illinois, in reply 10 a letter
asking him to accept the position Of vice rresi-
dent of the Cuban Aid Society Of New York,