New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-08-12

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Monday. He will be received with very great honor
Everybody expresses admiration for the pluely AmeT
Of the iOnsost traveller. We have the first Saturday
sitting In Parliament this morning The House met at
II O'Clock Tue House met at 3i5 op Thursday afternoon
and Mr. Speaker sat IN bis chair till 445 on Friday Olh
ing The Speakers brain must be corrugated WIN WVIs
after II hours uninterrupted talk has passed through ~
The reason of this prodglous industry IL deteina'Gn
OF Mr. Gladstone to got through with the Lloensins pn
taers for few years Mazzni i he ~ now consel1ns
OF what Is going on in the Old World Whoh ny 80 as
ET e G' circulated ui hat It his fortune
Is to be Inherited by his nelce' IL INC ali have
been spent in promoting patriotic movements. HAD IL
not been for the forehought of his mother 70 ienVe
annuiya small truly, but all the Ola lady Couu
oOmmand-he had been penness half his days.
The most improbable things were said OF nun Wnile
circIIat,op in another No wonder, then, that being
dead, he Is subject to anecdotes mat nave no Iou
ONLY two public.sts OF the exile order who had any
money-Ledru Roin and Alexander Hertzen-and IL
required the greatest ability on then part 70 Keep IT,
NJ. THEIRS AND THE FRENCH ASSEMBLY,
THE ADOPTION OF THE TAX ON RAW MATE
RIALS-THE POLITICAL ASPECT OF TIE CASE
POSITION OF THE RIGHT AND LEFT TOWARD
NJ. THIERS-THE GRAND LOAN.
IRON THE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT OF THE TRIBUNE
PARIS, July A.-After an eXhausting, if not
exhaustive discussion, prolonged through many weeks,
the principle Of customs tax imported raw materials
been adopted in the Assembly by vote of 95 to 2s
This is real personal triumph for NJ Theirs whether 1t
than apparent, ranstory one, for the osen-
sble principle which, If permanently restored In prac-
tce would be secured first stage the return to that
larger system of protective tariffs of which he is the I'M
changing champion doubtful That 1t does credit to
his generalship there is doubt He has won 1t by
maneuvering his enemies unenable Positions with
the aid Of es who their hearts, would have preferred
a defeat. and many of whom excuse their open part
in the victory with the reserved hope that it mss prove
a barren one More than two-thrds of the Deputies
the Left and Center almost unenimouslyare adopts, or
less learned disciples of the FreeTrade school
so is unQuestonaby tho majority OF the political liberal
and the industrial and commercial classes throughout
the country SO are the ablest Journals including those
that in general support the policy of NJ Theirs and the
Republic as IL is
But over enemies and unwilling allies Theirs had sew
eral advantages The enormous advantage, whether
right or wrong OF believing he was right Of having
fixed purpose with pau with provision of studied
facts to promote success and the advantage of posi-
ton When urging the Assembly the adoption OF his
favorite nancla measure last Winter, he frankly de-
car that his protecOn5t principles and his beief III
them unchanged, but added: lyon are sovereign;
money by taxation must have; there are no good
taxes II you devise better than propose, you
will reject mine" And with that the debate on ways
and means was adjourned in the early days of last Jau-
uary 1t then supposed that some 5OOOOOO francs
remained to be raised by taxes On revival OF the
discussion this Summer Government asked for 2OOOOOOOO
francs largely to deficits and largely assure the
Treasury and national credit against accidents IL
should noted here in passing, that, owing to various
causes but principally to the large stocks laid in by
merchants anticipation of the impOsts voted last Win
ter the immediate yield from taxesOtherwise readily
colected-has been less for the first six months than
is reasonably calculated TO be in the future.
Repeated and strenuous effort has been made, es
peciay in the latter days OF the recent debate TO show
that the Government francs
was needlessly large that there large room for
economies that all which really needed could be
| raised by internal imposts-Of which several newly
devised ones were proposed to take the place OF the
custom tax on imported material. That reduction
of the 200 100000 demand not in itself safe for the
national credit and that reduction by economies
! not deslrabe-not wisely praoncable-GOvernmcnt had
no great difficulty in proving. should say here that
Theirs did not ask Though he would have liked TOY the
whole 900 from custom tax Every newly devised
substitute tax w No tax is good One.l fell to the
ground under the lively attacks of those whose
stituents it fell hardest.
The economical arguments for and against the raw
material customs tax have been with slight local modi-
1caOn, that with which any one is already familiar
! who remembers old English Parliament debates.
THERE'S practical argument remained with cumulative
fatal cogencyincOme tax, partial income tax in dis
guise additional confines and the rest being all rejected
one after the other the old diligently eloquent
against them nothing hut his fayorite left
or the profound complex dispute which followed as to
what il can yield, 1 not competent TO decide the
merits. IT is enough to say that, while he insists with
seemingly demonstrative figures in hand that it would
easily yield twice more than he claims from it, oppo-
nents able ones with another array OF figures that
cannot he" insist that his do emphaticaily. This dis
crepancy Of estimates is worth noticing among other
reasons for this: considerable number of those left
who voted with THEIRS against their theoretical free
trade convictions did 80 on political grounds in tho be-
lief that his estimates wrong. that those of his
ooa opponents correct and that the law Of his
hearts desire which they have attered him by passing
will be nugatory
This brings us to the political side OF what should be a
purely financial and economical question Observe that
the final vote taken in thin house. less than COO Of
the $50 voting and the Government carried by
less than 100 clear majority More than 30 Left deputies
Of the left counter vote record last January
The strangely bndly impolitic maneuveri ng OF the
Right monarchiss in hostility both TO NJ Theirs and
possible Republic TO be established has any time those
past been driving the President and the Left
into each others for mutual support And so these
two have come by mutual ooncessi0E not 20 trust Dut
in sort TO embrace each other Thiers bd Tor their
support by pronOuncing with more dcfniteness than
ever before for thu Republic; and they return the com
pment by voting for his pet idea. He likes Republican
Neither has Collective anities" with the other party
Both have sacrificed something on tho very temporary
altar OF their accidental union in the permanence OF
There IS a great quarrel with him for tho part
waged at Versailles for the last past week. all parties
feeling that they have been played with, bahi9d, de-
feated by him for him. The vanity Of OF them let's
them that this comes OF their defects more than OF
his fault. There Is childish whine from these grownup
men, otherwise Rravely sensible. selirespecting men,
that NJ Theirs has abused the advantages OF hs position,
and employed the brilliant accident OF his late
full negotiations with Germany and the consequently
assured brilliant success OF the great loan 70 impose his
obstnatey held bygone notions OF political economy
subject Legislature. He is autoerstc. imDerous, will
be himself, France, and does though not says, with
Louis XIV, am the State"
II "a childish laughable and with that solemnly alb
surd this outcry against THERE'S imperious personality
in which for rest. only majority