H. OF R.] The Tariff. [JUNE 25, 1832. be fair, satisfactory, or permanent, which asks us to lay on the completion of the South Carolina Company's railthe axe at the root of the prosperity of one-half the Union. road to Hamburg. NOTE. Extracts from a speech delivered by the honorable D. E. Huger, in the House of Representatives of South Carolina, in December, 1830. HORRY DISTRICT.--Most of the inhabitants are clad from their own domestic manufactures. There have been great emigrations hence to the valley of the Mississippi, thereby preventing increase of popu lation. Conwayborough. The commerce of the place is improv "What, sir, is the oppression we feel? As far as I can judge, we are more prosperous and happy than any other ing at present. nation on-earth. We are at peace with all the world. MARION DISTRICT.--There have been considerable emi Our commerce, we are told by our own Governor, is in-grations to the West. creasing; 'that old channels have been widened, and new WILLIAMSBURG DISTRICT.--Williamsburg. Many of ones opened to our trade.' The cotton planter procures the inhabitants have emigrated to Alabama; but this has for his cotton the Liverpool prices, after deducting costs recently ceased, and it is believed the population is again and charges. Our great staples are as high as they were on the increase. prior to 1824. The most deluded do not pretend that the Liverpool market has been affected by our tariff. is not, then, of any direct injurious effect of the system that we complain." It MARLBOROUGH DISTRICT.--Bennettville. This place was founded in 1818; it is healthful, and at present prospe. rous. DARLINGTON DISTRICT.--Manufactures of coarse cotton "Even when in the hands of Southern men, our sec-cloths and yarns have been carried on, to some extent, tional interests were yielded to the general good. The at William's factory, on the Cedar creek, and domestic valley of the Mississippi was acquired at the common ex- manufactures are found in considerable quantities throughpense, for the general good; and yet to this we owe the out the district. depreciation of our lands, and the reduced price of our cotton. To this measure we not only submitted, but were its most zealous supporters; and were it to do again, we should approve the measure from its military and political importance to the West; and it is to Southern, to Carolina statesmen, we owe the exhausting system of internal improvements." Extract from a speech of Hugh S. Legare, Esq. at the cele Society Hill. The extraordinary salubrity of the atmosphere, and great facilities for trade, are found so happily combined in the locality of Society Hill, as to give assurance of a growing importance. SUMTER DISTRICT.--Bishopville. Here is a very extensive tannery. KERSHAW DISTRICT.--Domestic manufactures are car ried on, on a large scale, in many places. Camden. Comprising a population of about two thousand two hundred souls, and carrying on an extensive trade; it now exhibits the very strongest evidences of pros perity and improvement. CHESTERFIELD DISTRICT.--Such is the remarkable adaptation of this district, in its soil, aspect, and climate, to the culture of the vine, that nothing but a lack of publie spirit in the wealthier agriculturists prevents it from being one of the first wine countries in the world. LANCASTER DISTRICT.--Lancaster. It now contains a bration at Charleston, on the 5th of July, 1831. "It is owing to this [the tariff'] policy, that the Government has to bear the blame of whatever evils befall the people from natural or accidental causes; that, whether our misfortunes spring from the barrenness of the earth, or the inclemency of the seasons, or the revolutions of commerce, or a defective system of domestic and rural economy, or, in short, from any other source, they are all indiscriminately imputed to the tariff. The decay and desolation which are invading many parts of the lower country; the fall in price of our great staple commodity; population of nearly four hundred, and has a considerable the comparative unproductiveness of slave labor, are conand increasing trade, evincing much prosperity. fidently declared to be the effects of this odious and ty down the population of Lancaster alarmingly. All the Emigration to Alabama and Western Georgia have kept rannical monopoly. Sir, firmly convinced, as I there is no sort of connexion (or an exceedingly slight but still they have shown an increase by the late census; surrounding districts have suffered from the same cause, one) between these unquestionable facts and the opera- whereas, Lancaster is compelled to acknowledge a position of the tariff law, yet I do not wonder at the indignative diminution of her numbers in the last ten years, altion which the imposition of such a burden of taxation has excited in our people in the present unprosperous state of their affairs." am, that though of only twenty-nine. State. LEXINGTON DISTRICT.-Near Columbia, in this district, The following extracts from Lockwood's Geography of is an extensive paper manufactory, the only one in the South Carolina illustrate several points discussed in carried on, on a large scale, in Lexington; and the inhabitDomestic manufactures of every description are the preceding speech. This little work, adapted to the ants of this district have long been remarkable for a geuse of schools, and published the present year, at neral equality, unobtrusive independence, and uniformly Charleston, is recommended by testimonials of the high-industrious and moral habits. est character. ORANGEBURG DISTRICT.--Large quantities of cotton BARNWELL DISTRICT.--The inhabitants of this region are noted for habits of industry, economy, and independence. Here domestic manufactures are mostly worn. From its climate and soil, Barnwell is admirably adapted to the culture of the vine and mulberry. BEAUFORT DISTRICT.--Purysburg. After languishing goods (domestic) are manufactured in Orangeburg. for many years, it has recently become very thriving. Robertville is a very prosperous little place. CHARLESTON DISTRICT.--The eastern side of the city of Charleston, for more than a mile, presents a succession of projecting wharves, crowded during winter with vessels lading and unlading their cargoes. In the rear of the EDGEFIELD DISTRICT.-Within one mile of [the town wharves are extensive ranges of large warehouses, for the of] Edgefield, is Landrum's pottery, forming a village of storage of the produce of the country, for foreign mer- about one hundred and fifty inhabitants. Stoneware is chandise, and for the use of merchants and factors as here extensively manufactured, cheaper, stronger, and counting rooms. Merchants from Georgia, Alabama, better, than any in Europe, or elsewhere in America. Tennessee, North and South Carolina, make large pur- There is another similar pottery on the Cussaboe creek. chases at the wholesale stores at this time. There has Here is, also, a cotton factory for coarse fabrics, on a large been a great increase in that business within the last four scale. years, and it is hoped it will be considerably augmented The new and flourishing town of Humburg stands on JUNE 25, 1832.] The Tariff [H. of R. the left bank of the Savannah river, opposite to Augusta, almost coeval with the settlement of the country; they in Georgia. This place was founded in 1821 by the en- were, principally, druggets, sometimes mixed of silk and terprising Henry Schultz. It now enjoys a great trade in wool. Considerable improvements have been made in the cotton, flour, tobacco, and grain. The communication quality of the various fabrics of late years; still, the opewith Charleston is at present by steamboats; this is some- rations have been, with few exceptions, confined to famitimes interrupted from deficiency of water in the river, lies. but, on the completion of the railroad to Charleston, its commerce must increase rapidly. This district, until lately, had suffered dreadfully from emigrations to Georgia, Florida, &c. Some diversity in the occupations of the inhabitants would remove all danger of the recurrence of this evil, and the culture of the vine and mulberry would afford this profitably. ABBEVILLE DISTRICT.-The rivers are the Savannah and Saluda, both navigable for cotton boats. The smaller streams are Little river, Rocky river, Long Cane, the Sapona or Hard Labor, Rocky creek, and the Seeraw, which heads near Wallersville. These streams, in their courses, are augmented by innumerable rivulets and brooks, which intersect the country in an astonishing manner, presenting facilities for the machinery of the artificer, manufacturer, and agriculturist, scarcely to be exceeded any where. The domestic manufactures of cotton and wool are very great. LAURENS DISTRICT.-Cotton is the principal production of this district for market. Large quantities of wheat, corn, and other grain, are made; and tobacco also, some of which is sold. Domestic manufactures are here highly important and extensive. NEWBERRY DISTRICT.--Every description of domestic manufactures is to be found extensively in Newberry dis trict. Newberry Village. The very comfortable dwellinghouses, frank and industrious inhabitants, constitute this a most agreeable little place, comprising a population of about two hundred. FAIRFIELD DISTRICT.--Winnsborough. This is a thriving town. Articles of almost every description, for domestic use, are manufactured in this district; and, from Winnsborough, cotton gins are sent to all parts of the State. YORK DISTRICT.--Domestic manufactures are much attended to. UNION DISTRICT.--Domestic manufactures are carried to great perfection here. SPARTANBURG DISTRICT.-Earlsville and Poolesville. Domestic manufactures are extensively carried on here. Spartanburg is rich in minerals. Iron ore, in great abundance, said to be superior to any other in the United States, with small quantities of gold, plumbago, titanium, feldspar, talc, pyrites, and some others, are found in various parts of the district; whilst granite, marble, and gneiss abound. Large quantities of very fine castings, or hollow ware, are transported hence to Charleston. GREENVILLE DISTRICT.--The armory iron works are not now in operation, but there are several forges in the district for working iron ore. Manufactures are domestic, generally, with the exception of two cotton factories. "The tanning of leather, the manufacturing of saddles, shoes, hats, farming utensils, &c. &c., are carried on extensively in some parts of the country, but, in general, solely for the supply of the respective neighborhoods." Mr. WAYNE contended that the boon vaunted by the honorable member from Massachusetts, as given by the reduction on coarse negro cloths, was not a boon of that magnitude that it was represented to be. But, even if it was, that was no reason why the protection should be raised on another of the finer, and higher rated, and necessary articles of Southern consumption. He saw very clearly the drift of the gentlemen who went for the increased protection to the wool grower; and he had no doubt that, if this amendment prevailed, there would be a further application on that score. As to the new principle by which the valuation on the imported article was to be made here, it was altogether objectionable, and it must lead to endless confusion, by the variance that would be produced as the prices would fluctuate in the different markets. Mr. SPEIGHT said he would not rise to make a speech on the subject, but to implore the House to come to some decision, and let the people of the South at once know what was to be the description of compromise that was to be offered them. It appeared that they were again getting into discussion on the general principles of the bill; but nothing as yet appeared by which any man could judge of the nature of the compromise on which they were called upon to vote. He therefore wished to have a speedy decision, that they might be prepared to meet gentlemen one way or the other on the main question. Mr. DAYAN, of New York, said, in the early part of the discussion on this bill he had calculated to address the House at some considerable length on the general policy of the protecting system, but more particularly on the subject of the wool-growing interest. On this subject, Mr. D. said he had prepared himself; but when he saw the impatience of the House, and had witnessed their settled determination to speak less and to act morc-a determination, Mr. D. said he had most cheerfully acquiesced in, he could not consent to throw himself upon their indulgence, or to consume one moment of their time unnecessarily. Sir, said Mr. D., I would not, at this time, claim that indulgence, did I not, in some measure, as a member of the Committee on Manufactures, feel myself called upon by the gentleman from Massachusetts, [Mr. DAVIS.] Sir, said Mr. D., to that gentleman I distinctly say that I cannot, without doing violence to my honest convictions, vote for his amendment. It was therefore due, Mr. D. said, to himself, to the House, and particularly to the gentleman from Massachusetts, that he should briefly state the reasons why he could not, and ought not, to support the amendment under consideration. Aware of the importance of time, at the heel of a long protracted session, he said he would not detain the House to exceed ten or The high destiny of this much favored region is yet to fifteen minutes. And here, sir, said Mr. D., that I may be developed. A bountiful Providence has munificently not be misunderstood, I emphatically declare that I have afforded every prerequisite; it therefore only remains for always been, and still am, what is called a tariff man; and, the enterprising and patriotic inhabitants of this and the as such, decidedly in favor of protecting home, to the exneighboring districts to resolve that theirs shall be a rich clusion of foreign industry. But, sir, I differ widely in wine country, when effort and success will appear but sy-my ideas of protection from many gentlemen who have nonymous terms; the country being generally believed to spoken on that subject. Sir, said Mr. D., what is protecbe favorable to the production of wine. tion, and what are its results? How do we arrive at any The minerals found here are iron, lead, titanium, feld-just conclusions in relation to it? I may be wrong, and all spar, emeralds, with gneiss, granite, green stone, yellow my reasoning on the subject may be radically defective. ochre, and many others of value. I have arrived at my conclusions in this manner: I have taken a given fabric, say one yard of cloth, and inquired what quantity of labor in England would fabricate it--the The author remarks of the State generally, that the manufacture of cloths, for domestic purposes, has been 3775 H. OF R.] The Tariff. [JUNE 25, 1832. price of that labor; what the cost of all the raw materials to conciliate. I wish to compromise, but I cannot surrenIthe Committee on Manufactures a bill of compromise. entering into its fabrication; the costs, charges, commis- der protection to our home industry. I view the bill of sion, and insurance, in bringing it from England here. have gone through the same process of calculation in re- The amendment of the gentleman from Massachusetts, to lation to a yard of cloth, of equal quality, manufactured my mind, is not of that character. The bill is based upon In my humble here. I deduct the one from the other, and the differ-principles of general reduction; the amendment is based ence between the two I assume as the distinctive line be- upon principles of a particular increase. tween protection or no protection. As the duty laid on opinion, said Mr. D., notwithstanding the able argument this yard of cloth raises above this line you protect, as of the gentleman from Massachusetts to the contrary, the your duty falls below this line, you paralyze, prostrate, operation of the amendment would be totally to prohibit and ultimately ruin its fabrication. Sir, said Mr. D., it is the importation of woollen goods. If so, it would be illy a perversion of the human understanding, when we think calculated to satisfy the complaints of the South; many of or believe that we can half protect. Sir, there is no such which complaints, to my mind, are well founded. If we thing as half protection; it must, according to the nature say compromise, let us mean compromise. The practical of things, be protection or no protection. Sir, said Mr. operation of the amendment requires some consideration. call on It proposes to change the valuation of woollen goods from D., am I mistaken in these conclusions? If so, gentlemen better informed on this subject to dissipate the foreign to the home market; and the duty to be asIf I am right, I will claim the attention of the sessed on the wholesale current price in the principal the error. House a short time, while I examine the result of this pro-markets in this country. Under the operation of this amendment, a yard of cloth tection. Here I will respectfully notice the argument of two dollars; the duty fifty per centum. my honorable colleague, [Mr. CAMBRELENG, who has in England costing one dollar, the wholesale market price again reiterated the long exploded doctrine, that the duty in our market laid on any article was a tax to the extent of the duty on The importer pays, therefore, for his yard of cloth in Sir, said Mr. D., is this so? Permit me, England, one dollar; to the custom-house in New York, the consumer. for one moment, to examine the argument. When a duty one dollar: his cloth has, therefore, cost him two dollars. is levied on any particular article, that article is most ge- For what can he sell? For a sum clearly not above the In that case, Mr. market price. What is that? Two dollars. What is the nerally at or near its maximum value. D. said he admitted that the duty operated as a bounty to result? He has received the amount he has paid out minus But, said Mr. the cost, charges, commission, and insurance. Mr. D. said the producer, and a tax to the consumer. D., if that duty is a protecting duty, and the production he had stated the question in that way to exemplify his within the capacity of the country, it gives at once an idea, and to draw the attention of the House to the pracimpetus to home competition; that competition increases tical operation of the amendment. Change the position production; and, as that production approximates the as you may, you will always find the duty accumulative-In regulating the standard wants of the consumers, the price of the article thus pro- always resting upon a contingency exclusively within the tected decreases, until the production equals or exceeds control of the manufacturer. the consumption, when the article is reduced to its mini- of value of this article, or in fixing the current wholesale Does it not, then, clearly and incontroverti-market value, what agency or control can the importer mum value. bly follow that the duty is no longer a bounty to the pro- have over them? I answer, none. No, sir, it will be found, ducer, but is converted into a fixed protection to the on an examination of the principles contended for, that the consumer? Perhaps, said Mr. D., some gentleman may importer would be completely within the power of the ask me how it is possible for the duty to become a protec- manufacturer. How, sir, said Mr. D., is the wholesale current market tion to the consumer. fixed and established a permanency of price and value value to be established, but by increased or diminished If price and supply of an article entering into such a general consumpwhich foreign competition cannot reach. value depended on foreign competition, the least revul- tion? Who, sir, will regulate that supply of woollen cloths sion in foreign trade, the least derangement in our com-in our principal markets? Most clearly the manufacturer, mercial relations, would increase price and value, and, by and none other. When he wishes to depress the market the same operation, diminish the means to pay. Hence, value, he will throw in an increased supply; but when he it follows that, when the home production equals home wishes to elevate the market value for the purpose of exconsumption, the consumer is not affected by any of these cluding foreign importations, he will withhold that supply. contingencies. The reverse of this is true, when our Does it want any time or reasoning to show that by this wants are supplied by foreign labor, and the price regu- operation the manufacturer has it in his power, when he lated by foreign competition. Sir, said Mr. D., I would pleases, to drive the importer from our market? refer to coarse cotton goods to demonstrate my positionthe price per yard, in our market, six cents; the duty eight and three-quarters cents. Why is it, sir, if this duty is a tax to the consumer, that the consumer pays a price for it far below the protecting duty? The same question may be asked in relation to nails, and a vast variety of other articles, where the protection has been amply sufficient to encourage home production, and that production reached These, sir, said Mr. D., are the wants of the consumer. my ideas in relation to the protecting system; and to his mind, he said, they were as clearly demonstrated as any problems of Euclid. Because home competition has National policy has and should always harmonize the great branches of national industry. By this amendment they are brought into collision. By your legislation you would place them in such a relative situation to each other, It would be the interest of the manufacturer that self-interest would drive them to act in opposite extremes. that the standard of value should be as high as possible; and of the importer, that it should be as low as possible. Sir, said Mr. D., the uncertainty and fluctuations of such a system would be ruinous. Suppose, sir, in Charleston there was an increased supply of these goods, the price I would be low; but in Boston there was a diminished From the commencement of the session to this day, Mr. supply, the price there would be high; the price in New D. said he had labored so to regulate the tariff of duties, York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore, should fluctuate beas to promote the general good of the whole, and, at the tween the two extremes, how would the current market same time, to do the least possible injury to any of the value in the principal market be ascertained? Would you parts; to extend all possible relief to the South; and, at the add the different prices together, and divide them by the same time, to secure reasonable protection to the import- number of markets? What endless confusion this would ant interests of the North. Sir, said Mr. D., I have taken make! This confusion and uncertainty alone, sir, would a middle course. I have avoided both extremes; I wish first deter, but in the end prohibit, these importations. JUNE 25, 1832.] The Tariff. [H. OF R. Sir, said Mr. D., I have one other and a serious and monopolized the trade to the exclusion of the American insuperable objection; it is, sir, that the very opera- merchant, he had two propositions to move as an amendtion which raises the standard value of cloth, reduces the ment to the amendment of Mr. DAVIS, which, in their standard value of wool. If it is the manufacturer's inte- principle, would obviate the objections of the manufac rest occasionally to throw into market but one-half a sup- turers, and secure the Government in the duties as far as ply of cloth, of course he will fabricate only one-half a that could be done, by making it the interest of the importsupply: this would occasion a surplus of wool, the inevita-er of the foreign goods to make fair and honest returns ble effect of which would be not only to reduce the price of the value of his woollens, or take the consequences. of wool, but to create great fluctuations in that price; this, Those amendments would not involve what was objectionsir, would put the wool grower, as much as the importer, able as to a duty upon a duty. What they proposed was into the hands of the manufacturer. Representing, sir, the course followed in similar cases in England, and it as i do, a wool-growing interest, I should be recreant to was, with the substitution of the word appraiser instead my duty and their interest, did I not most solemnly enter of custom-house officer, taken verbatim from the Engmy protest against the amendment, or any other that lish statutes. Mr. A. then submitted the following, would jeopard that interest. viz. Sir, said Mr. D., we are not prepared for this radical change in our policy. By the present existing law and policy of the country, the more woollen goods the manufacturer throws into market, the less the importations of that article, but by the amendment the change is so radical, that the less he throws into market the less the importations. Sir, said Mr. D., 1 have already detained the House longer than I promised to do. Permit me to make one remark in conclusion, and I will then detain the House no longer. Sir, said Mr. D., an imputation was made the other day in this debate, which I have charity to think was not intended for me. Let that be as it may, I regret exceed ingly that any gentleman should, on this floor, mingle the politics of the day with the adjustment of this all-important question. I also regret, I am pained to find that many important presses are now laboring to make the tariff a political question. Sir, said Mr. D., can that man possess American feeling --can he be a patriot, who seeks to elevate any man or set of men on the ruins of his country? 1 For myself, sir, I disclaim all political consideration in! the adjustment of this question. I am ready to make any individual sacrifice. I am ready to sacrifice any man or set of men, rather than sacrifice my country. Actuated by these feelings, I have labored on the committee with this view, and all my votes shall be directed to that object. And if in the end this Union shall be dis. solved, yet I will have the consolation, and perhaps the only one, that I had contributed my humble exertions and feeble aid to save it. Mr. BATES, of Maine, went into some calculations to show that the effect of the amendment would be to give a protection of eighty-five per cent.; and said that he was a wool grower himself to some extent, and that he deemed fifty per cent. on that article to be such full and ample protection, that, if it was not, he would slay his sheep and give them to the dogs. So he was of the same opinion as to the woollen manufacture, that if fifty per cent., simply fifty, apart from other nice calculations, as to exchange, the value of the pound sterling, &c., was not sufficient to protect that interest, he was prepared to say he would not vote to give it any protection whatever. Mr. DAVIS would only say, in reply to the gentleman, that he had not made his calculations correctly. Mr. ADAMS said, when his colleague had first introduced his amendment, he had not understood that it was his intention, when he did so, to include in the market valuation the duty upon the article. The effect of that part of his amendment had been demonstrated most forcibly by the gentleman from South Carolina to be most unjust in its principle--a duty upon a duty being a thing unknown in any country in the world. He must, therefore, vote against it. But as complaints were made by the manufacturers, at all times, that frauds were committed in consequence of the foreign valuations, and by which the drab gaitered gentry, as they were called, VOL. VIII.--237 SEC.--. SEC. --. And be it further enacted, That the value of all wool or manufactures of woollens imported into the United States, upon which duties ad valorem are or shall be levied, shall be ascertained in manner following: the value thereof shall be stated in the entry, and shall be affirmed by the declaration of the importer or his known agent, written upon the entry, and attested by his signature; and if any person make such declaration, not being the importer or proprietor of such goods, nor his agent duly authorized by him, such person shall forfeit five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment or information before the circuit court of the United States for the district within which such entry shall be made; and such declaration shall be made in manner and form following, and shall be binding upon the person by or in behalf of whom the same shall be made; that is to say: "I, A. B. do hereby declare that I am [the importer, or authorized by the importer] of the goods contained in this entry, and that I enter the same [stating which, if part only] at the sum of Witness my hand the day of A. B." And be it further enacted, That if, upon examination, by the appraisers, of any goods, wares, or merchandise so entered, and so valued, it shall appear to them that they are not valued according to the true value thereof, it shall be lawful for the collector, or the person performing the duties of collector of the port at which such entry and valuation shall have been made, to detain and secure said goods, wares, and merchandise within five days, and to take such goods, wares, and merchandise, for the use of the United States. And if a different rate of duty shall be charged upon any goods, wares, or merchandise, according as the value of the same shall be described in the entry to be above, or to be below any particular price or sum, and they shall be entered so as to be liable to the lower rate of duty, and it shall appear to the appraisers that such goods, wares, or merchandise, by reason of their real value, are properly liable to the higher rate of duty, it shall be lawful for the collector in like manner to take such goods, wares, and merchandise, for the use of the United States. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, in any such cases, cause the amount of such valuation, together with an addition of ten per centum thereon, and also the duties paid upon such entry, if any such have been paid, to be paid to the importer or proprietor of such goods, wares, or merchandise, in full satisfaction for the same, and shall dispose of such goods, wares, and merchandise, for the benefit of the United States; and if the produce of such sale shall exceed the sums so paid, and all charges incurred by the United States, one-half of the surplus shall be given to the officers who had detained and taken the said goods, wares, or merchandise, and the money retained for the use of the United States shall be paid into the hands of the collector of the customs, and carried to account as duties of customs. 3779 H. OF R.] The Tariff Mr. ADAMS replied, the value wherever the importer made his custom-house entry. Mr. BURGES then said that the real evil of which the manufacturing interest complained, was the eternal war waged against them by the English manufacturer; and he proceeded to show how, under the provisions of this amendment, an English manufacturer, by throwing suddenly upon the market a large quantity of goods, could at once reduce the market value below even the cost of the goods. Having thus accomplished a fall in the price, there was nothing to prevent him from making still further larger shipments, upon which, as the duty was to be paid at the market value, he would pay the lowest duty, and afterwards could, by holding over, realize his own prices. He rather thought that the foreign valuation, when prices were more equally made, in places not subject to the danger of such a fluctuation, would be more safe for the home manufacturer. The yeas and nays having been ordered on demand of Mr. ADAMS, the question on his amendment was put, and decided as follows: [JUNE 25, 1832 Bates, Briggs, Bucher, Bullard, Burd, Choate, Lewis NAYS.--Messrs. Adams, Alexander, Anderson, Archer, Armstrong, Ashley, John S. Barbour, Barnwell, Barringer, James Bates, Beardsley, Bell, Bergen, Bethune, James Blair, John Blair, Boon, Bouck, Bouldin, Branch, John C. Brodhead, Burges, Cambreleng, Carson, Chandler, Chinn, Claiborne, Clay, Clayton, Coke, Conner, Corwin, Coulter, Craig, Davenport, Warren R. Davis, Dayan, Dewart, Doubleday, Felder, Findlay, FitzgeYEAS.--Messrs. Adams, Alexander, Anderson, Arm- rald, Foster, Gaither, Gilmore, Gordon, Griffin, Thomas strong, Arnold, Barringer, John Blair, Boon, Burd, Chan- H. Hall, William Hall, Harper, Hawes, Hawkins, Hoffdler, Chinn, Clay, Clayton, Corwin, Craig, Crane, Da-man, Hogan, Horn, Howard, Hubbard, Ihrie, Irvin, venport, Dewart, Findlay, Ford, Gaither, Gilmore, T. Isacks, Jewett, Richard M. Johnson, Cave Johnson, KaH. Hall, Hawkins, Heister, Ihrie, Isacks, R. M. Johnson, vanagh, Kennon, John King, Henry King, Kerr, Lamar, C. Johnson, Kavanagh, H. King, Kerr, Leavitt, Lecompte, Lansing, Leavitt, Lecompte, Lent, Lewis, Lyon, Mann, Lent, Mann, Mardis, Mason, McDuffie, McIntire, Mercer, Mardis, Mason, Maxwell, McCarty, McDuffie, McIntire, Muhlenberg, Newton, Patton, Pearce, Pierson, Plummer, McKay, Mercer, Thomas R. Mitchell, Muhlenberg, NewRandolph, Roane, Semmes, William B. Shepard, Smith,ton, Nuckolls, Patton, Pierson, Pitcher, Plummer, Polk, Southard, Speight, Spence, Standifer, Taylor, Philemon Edward C. Reed, Rencher, Roane, Root, Russel, Wm. Thomas, J. Thomson, Tracy, Vinton, Wardwell, Wash B. Shepard, A. H. Shepperd, Smith, Soule, Speight, ington, Wayne, Wilkin, Frederick Whittlesey, Wilde, Spence, Standifer, Stephens, Francis Thomas, Philemon Thomas, Wiley Thompson, Verplanck, Ward, Wardwell, Williams, Worthington.--68. Wayne, Weeks, C. P. White, Wickliffe, Wilde, Williams, Worthington. --118. So the amendment was rejected. Mr. FOSTER moved to reduce the duty to fifteen per cent.: NAYS.--Messrs. Chilton Allan, Heman Allen, Allison, Appleton, Archer, Ashley, Babcock, Banks, Noyes Barber, John S. Barbour, Barnwell, Isaac C. Bates, James Mr. REED, of New York, then proposed an amendBates, Beardsley, Bell, Bethune, James Blair, Bouldin, Briggs, Bucher, Bullard, Burges, Cambreleng, Carson, ment to reduce the duty on all manufactures of silk, or Choate, Claiborne, Coke, Lewis Condict, Silas Condit, of which silk shall be a component part, (except sewing Conner, Eleutheros Cooke, Bates Cooke, Cooper, Craw-silk, which is rated at forty per cent.) from eighteen to ten ford, Creighton, Daniel, John Davis, Warren R. Davis, per cent. ad valorem. Mr. JEWETT demanded the yeas and nays on that moDayan, Dearborn, Denny, Doddridge, Doubleday, Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, Edward Everett,tion; which were ordered. Horace Everett, Felder, Fitzgerald, Foster, Gordon, Grennell, Griffin, William Hall, Harper, Hawes, Hodges, Hoffman, Hogan, Horn, Howard, Hubbard, Hughes, Huntington, Ingersoll, Irvin, Jenifer, Jewett, Kendall, Kennon, John King, Lamar, Lansing, Letcher, Lewis, Marshall, Maxwell, Robert McCoy, McKay, McKennan, Milligan, T. R. Mitchell, Nuckolls, Pendleton, Pitcher, Polk, Potts, John Reed, Edward C. Reed, Rencher, Russel, A. H. Shepperd, Slade, Soule, Stanberry, Stewart, Storrs, Sutherland, Francis Thomas, Wiley Thompson, Vance, Ward, Watmough, Weeks, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Wickliffe, Young.-111. So Mr. ADAMS's amendment was rejected. Mr. E. EVERETT suggested to Mr. DAVIS, as a mo. dification of his amendment, the following, viz. to reduce the ad valorem duty on all manufactures of wool, or of which wool is a component part, and on ready made clothing, from forty to thirty-five per cent.; also, to reduce the ad valorem duty on flannels and baizes from twenty to sixteen cents the square yard. Mr. DAVIS declared that this was against his own conviction, but he would, in consequence of the suggestion of many friends around him, accept the suggestion, and modify his amendment according to it. The question on the amendment of Mr. D. as modified, YEAS.--Messrs. Chilton Allan, Heman Allen, Allison, The question on which, as the highest rate, was first put, and negatived. The question was then taken on the amendment of Mr. RED, and decided as follows: YEAS.--Messrs. Anderson, Appleton, Archer, Babcock, Noyes Barber, Barringer, Barstow, Isaac C. Bates, James Bates, Beardsley, Bergen, Bouck, Bouldin, Briggs, Bullard, Cambreleng, Carson, Choate, Clayton, Collier, Lewis Condict, Silas Condit, Conner, Eleutheros Cooke, Bates Cooke, Corwin, Coulter, Craig, Crane, Crawford, John Davis, Dayan, Dearborn, Denny, Ellsworth, George Evans, Joshua Evans, E. Everett, Horace Everett, Ford, Gaither, Gilmore, Gordon, Grennell, T. H. Hall, Heister, Hoffman, Hogan, Huntington, Ihrie, Ingersoll, Jarvis, Jenifer, Jewett, Kendall, Kennon, John King, Henry King, Lent, Mason, Marshall, Maxwell, Robert McCoy, McIntire, McKay, McKennan, Milligan, Muhlenberg, Newnan, Newton, Patton, Pearce, Pendleton, Pierson, Pitcher, Potts, John Reed, Edward C. Reed, Roane, Russel, Semmes, William B. Shepard, Slade, Smith, Stanberry, Stephens, Storrs, Sutherland, Taylor, Philemon Thomas, Tracy, Verplanck, Vinton, Wardwell, Washington, Watmough, Wayne, Wilkin, Wheeler, Elisha Whittlesey, Frederick Whittlesey, Campbell P. White, Edward D. White, Wilde, Williams, Young.--107. NAYS. Messrs. A lams, Alexand r, C. Allan, If. Al |