Western Sun & General Advertiser, Volume 19, Number 6, Vincennes, Knox County, 15 March 1828 — Page 1

WESTERN 'SUN h (BENEffiAl ADVEETISElffi

BY ELIHU STOU T. VIGteiNjNXfcS, (llSb.) rAI AlUlAW MAIJH 15, taxJB. Vol. 19. No. 6.

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Mr. Mai. mix from the committee on manufacturch, made the following report, accompanied by a bill (No 132,) in alteration of the several acts imposing duties on imports. ( Concluded ) Former laws had also been passed with the same intentions, and had failed to realize the cxcpcctations of those who acted under them. The knowledge of these facts it was which induced the committee to propose a mode, heretofore untried in the government, of obtaining precise information upon which to legislate. They have been indulged by the house in making the experiment, and, although the info: -

mation collected mav not be as precise ami

detailed as a greater allowance of time, and a wider range of examination, might have made

it, tlic committee do believe that certain post

exceptions which arc made in Uie act oli84.

Some of these exceptions the comnfi tee

have lelt unaltered, and othctstbey have pro posed a small increase of duty upon. The article of blankets now pays a duly ol 25 per cent, ad valortm, they propose to increase this duty to 3." per cent. This they hivo dine, because they think the testimony warrants them in the belief, that if the manufacture of blankets is encouraged in this country, they can be made hero as cheap, in reference to the quality of the blanket, as they are now imported, and that, in this manufacture, a consumption may be found for large quantities of our native wool. The committee also consider blankets an article so essentially necessary for the soldttr, as to become an object of national policy, and a necessary for which we ought not to be dependant upon any foreign country. The propositions of the committee as to the alteration and increase of duties upon woollens, generally, are as follows : 1st. Upon all manufactures of wool, or of which wool shall he a co nponent part, the actual value of which, at the place w hence

imported, shall not exceed 50 cents per

all classes ol society, materials ami labiics ot more prime necessity cannot be named. The committee cannot here rcliuin from directing the attention of the house to the testimony f a very intelligent manufuctuicr of flax, which will be found to compose a pait of the evidence herewith reported. From thjc facts stated by him, it would seem that the al leged infeiioiity of the American hemp and flax, when compared with the foreign, anscs, not from uny inferiority ol cither of the materials as grown in this country, but from not pulling or harvesting the crops at the proper time, and from giving them a dew, instead of

a water ro:. The committee se licit puitic into our eastern ports, is used for distillation, ular attention to this part of the evidence they J Thisconclusion is rendered still more natural

nave taucn, anu nope u may airaci mo panic-

1 1,000.0 ;0 to nearly 14,000,000 of gallons. By an examination of the import tables in iho treasury office, it is ascertained that out of tho 13,000,000 imported during the last year, more than 11,000,000 were carried to tho ports east of the port of New York, not including the latter port. It would hardly seem probable, that the quantity consumed in tho domestic way, in this section ot the Unionf could so far exceed the consumption of other sections of the country, where sugar and molasses are not manufactured, as this proportion would indicate, and, therefore, xt is

presumed, that much of the molasses taken

ular notice of the farmers of the country generally. The principle additions which the

when it is known that in that section of tho United States are located the most extensive

distilleries of i um from molasses. The spir-

commitlcc have proposed upon these articles, ' us thus produced, interferes, equally with ior-

are upon the unmanufactured nutci iais, and i cign spirits, with the demand lor the spirits

pi educed from domestic materials; and, as

the committee have proceeded upon the prim

upon sail duck. The increase proposed up

on raw hemp, is 10 per ton, and that upon

raw flax, is $9 per ton ; and both are made cip!e in relation to iron, wool, hemp, and fiix.

progicssivc, until the duty shall be $60 per ''hat the domestic aiticle, where it either cxlon upon each ; it now being Sylj per ton up l ists, or can be pioduced in sufiicien' quantion hemp, and 15 per cent, or about rqunl to i ties, should be preferred to the foieipn, even

square yard, a specific duty of 16 cenis upon' ? 36 per ton upon flax. The proposition is to lor the use of our otn manufactures, so, in

every square vard. !' -'"'tigc toe duty upon san duck, from an ad i the cv f molasses, they propose to apply

ti. upon oil ninnutacturc3 ol wooi, or oi j ' n omy oi i j per cent, to a speciuc (in- same iuie. mc committee nave no

ty ol nine cents per square yard, and to leg- means by which they can even calculate tho ulatc the draw back upoh the ai tide. quantity of grain now annually distilled in tho The next subject in order, though not se-j United States, or the quantity produced by cond in importance to the agricuitmul inter-1 such distillation. But they hazard nothing ests of the country which has occupied the at- j i'i the assertion that the coarse grains are now tuition of the committee, in the draft of the I growing in these states, in sufficient quantibill tbey how submit to the house, is that ol j llcs lo furnish to them a full supply of a'dent

i lurthcr protection to tho domestic spii its ; spirits, if the demand was m no other manner

which wool shall be a component part, the ac tual value of w hich, at the place whence im

potted, shall exceed fifty cents per ? quart; yard, and shall not exceed &1 Ol) p'r square yard, a specific duty uffoity cents upon every square yard. 3d. Upon all manufactures of wool, or of w hich wool shall be a component part, the actual value of which, nt the place whence impoi ted, shall exceed S 1 M per square yard, o: shall not exceed 50 cents per square yaid, a specific duty of I 00 upon every square- yd. 4;h. Upon all manufactures of wool, or of

whicjj word shall be a component part, the ac

tions may be assumed from the testimony, as j tual vakrj of which, at the place whence im

fully proved, which will afford much aid in tie

tci mining the defects in the existing laws, and .in applying the proper remedies to those defects ; and they cannot but hope that this in. formation, coming from pet sons intimately acquainted with the subjects of which they speak) and given under the solemn sanction of an oath, will have greater weight than the ordinary information upon which former laws Upon these subjects have been passed. The following positions, as relating to the manufacture tjf woollen goods; the committee believe themselves warranted in deducing, from the evidence they have taken, and they depend upon the evidence and opinions of the witnesses for the soundness of them. 1st. That the manufacture of woollen poods in th country, is, ot this time, a business laboring under severe depressions, and

attended with loss more severe upon the Inequalities. 2d. That these depressions arc owing, in a very great degree, to the excessive and irregular importations of foreign woollen goods into our markets : tints causing a fluctuation in, and an uncertainty of price tor tho-.c goods, more injurious to the American manufacturer, than even the depression of piice, which these importations produce. 3d. That the difference between the prices of wool, of the same quality, in this country and in England, about fifty per cent. is fas or of the latter country. 4th. That the cost of lite raw wool in this cnuntrv, is about one half of the cost of tlufabric, when prepared lor the market, as a general rule applying to most kinds of do: hs. 5lh. That if the cost ot the wool, a d t he cost of the foreign materials used lor dying were the sams in both countries, the. process of manufacturing the word into c'.o h, lilted for the market, can be performed as cheap in this country as it can in England. C h. That the present duty upon woollen goods docs im? furnish the desired protection, and that no reasonable duty can be effeciutl, unless it be a specific square yard, instead ol an ad valorem duty With a general reference to these positions, so far as they could be made applicable

to the subject, and with a proper regard to the

ported, shall exceed &2 50 per square yard.

and shall not exceed S4 00 per square yai d, I crs 11 at all worthy of the consideration of con

distilled fiom grain in the United States

And hcie the committee feel bound to inform the house, that it is not with any view to benefit the manufacturer of this description of ardent spirits, that they at all entertained the subject. It is the inteiest ii solely the interest of the farmer who grows the grain from

winch these spit its are distilled, which rend-

sha.I be deemed to have cost 4 PO per squat c yard, and at such valuation, shall be charged

with, and pay a duty of let ty per centum yd i vaUirem. ; ath. Upon ill manufactures of wnr.l kc. the ! actual v.ihic of w oir.h, shnll exceed lour (U.I ! lais per square vaid, .-.hall be charged with. i pav a duty of forty-five per ccoium ad dor- j em. I

gross, as connected with the protection of the industry substantial interests of the countrv.

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a consiuei auto lriercare upon tnc n etet.t rati -. ot duty, in any event, and mav give a vciv large increase, if the impo' talions slioohl u-t be reiruSalcd i),' tho i.vc ! the clu'v. Should

they be so regulated, the intrnm aiia'e places ! v 1,1 r,ft would be left eutisely to be supplied by the A- j liuultd u: mciican manufacturer ; and this, it is believ-i nation i-,

ed, would not only furnish him a maiket " a,P')! ,; '''' net ei-.joy.d, there abi'.ty to the great body of his clo,!is,bnt would enable! a makt is lestricled within extremehim to compete with the foreigner. cvm tit j '.V nanow li-niis. Hit did not even this inthe ptievs at which the minimum principle h upei alilc rlifli ulty exist, it ii equally certain

dors not operate extensively to increase the! that our large mat ket towns do not, and have

duty. I he committee have not gone to the extent proposed by many cf the memorials, in i lie regulation of these duties, but they have gone to the extent to which, from the cvi dence taken by them, they believe the prosperity of our woollen manufactures require. Hemp and flax, and some of the manufactures ft om them, have next claimed the consideration of the committee. The evidence which they have collected upon these subjects, though by no means voluminous, in their op:nion, satisfactorily proves, that large sections of the country arc capable of producing either kind of lire raw material above mentioned, to any extent. So far as the committee have been able to learn, the state i.f Kentucky seems to have paid the niGst attention to the culture of hemp, and, at this time, to posses- the most extensive manufactories

supplied; and they refer to the testimony which has been given before them, to show, both the present depressed prices of theso grains, and the spirits produced from them, and, also, to show that the quantity of theso

j grains can be increased in different sections

of the country, to answ er any demand, if demand could be created. With these facts before them, the committee have proposed, in the bill they report, to increase the present duty ten cents ner eal-

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uni :i sr. e most extensive larmir g interests ot "Jn an foreign spirits imported into the ti e U Slates, the grab; giouir.g interests of!country, and to increase the present duty upalmost eve, v section of the counu v. are sob- I on molasses five cents ner gallon.

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, surely, the protection of a relerencc to the table of domestic ex-

, di, titled ft our grain, cannot j ports, it will be seen that a part of the spirits For it is a fact, too well and j distilled from molasses in this country, is ex

ported ; and the law, as now existing, allows,

invji, ajjnus bo cxponcu, a arawuacK of four cents per gallon. An examination of these tables will show that most of these spiits, so exported, go to the same markets with our domestic spirits distilled from grain and with this drawback, operating as a

u beyond a very j Jouniv upon their exportation, they must,ac-

' l'uig ro me relative values ot the two kinds of spirits before exportation, have the advantage, in the foreign maiket to which they both go, over the spirits from grain, of just the amount of this drawback. The committee have, therefore, proposed a repeal of tho provision allowing the drawback. The subject of glass has also been proposed as a matter of examination before tho committee, and two veiy intelligent wjir esses living in sections of coun'ry remote from each other, have been examined in relation to it

A reference to their testimony will sho v that

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n io requin: a repetition by hat t'.i ;;.a:;tiiactuve has, for t ii''. l ist p.ist, afforded alu!a!;et for coarse giains

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i he committee refer the house, for evidence

to support these positions, to ;he testimony of the witnesses who have been examined upon this subject. A perfect remedy to the farmer of these evils, they do not believe to be within the reach of congress. But partial relict would bCcm to be very plainly presented. Our tables of imports lor the last 6 years, show a very regular annual importation of foreign spirits horn grain fc: other materials, varying from 5,CC'0,00fi to 6.000,000 gallons, a verv

of the article of any state i:i the Union : while i -uiall share of vhich is re-exported, h. the re-

stone is consumed in the country, and consequently, to that extent, limits the demands for the domestic spit its. The committee are a

not offered even a tolerable market for these grains in kind, for some years last past, nor do tho committee sec that there is any pros tKtt they will do so while our foreign relations remain as they now are. But convert these grains into y.r.nits, and a partial mark

et s ahoidcd, not profitable, it is true, bat i ln present protection to window glass, ot better than an entire loss. I smaller size than 10 by 14 inches, is aound-

anr, anu that most otehr descriptions of glas are in the same situation. In this these witnesses both agree, and they are both practically acquainted with the manufacture of va. t a a .

nous descriptions of the article. But one of

the states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey seem, as yet, to take the lead in the glowing

and manufacture of Hax Vet, there cannot be a doubt, but that the soil of cither of these states, as well as of many, and pet haps, most of th d other states, is well adapted to the

whole body of the testimony taken, the com-1 growth of either hemp or llax, and that they mittcc have proceeded to detail their proposi- only need the consumption in duck, cordage, tions tor the alteration and increase of the du-. Sc. of our extensive commerce, and of our tics upon woollen go-nls. Th? law of 15C4,I growing navy, to these branch.es ofagriculwith certain exceptions, enumerated in the j lute, an encouragement which would soon act, imposed a duty of twentv-tive per cent make the raw materials, articles, not of im-

ad valorem upon all foreign woollen goods, imported into this country, the actual value of which, at the place whence imported, should not exceed thii ty-tliree and one third cents

per square yard ; and a duty, after the 30th

pott, but of export, and would supply the wants of our own country with as cheap and as valuable a fabiic as is now obtained ftom foreign hands.

Indeed, if there are any articles, the pro

. day of June, 1 825, of thirty-three and one third j duce of agricultural and manufacturing labor,

per centum ad valorem, upon those costing

more than thirty-three k one third cents per square yard. The exception from the duty of thirty-three and one third per cent, were blankets, k worsted stuff goods, upon which a duty of 25 per cent, nd valorem was imposed; from goods paying a duty of "25 percent, ad valorem, as costing less than thirty-three and one third cents per square yard, were excepted flannels and baizes, which were to pay a duty of thirty-three and one third percent. The committee have proposed to change all these ad valorem duties upon cloths, to specific square yard duties, making the same

which, more than others, would seem to claim

the fostering care of the government, not as a matter of policy merely, but as a matter both of interest and independence, hemp and flax

seem peculiarly to belong to them. These arc materials, the growing of which brings nv to profitable use, not only the fertile lands of the country, but the active labor of the husbandman, and the manufacturing of which, in to the fabrics of most extensive utility, w ould sr cm to be so simple 8c easy, as not to require the aid of foreign skill in its accomplishment And, to our commerce in peace, and to our navy in war, as well as to the common uses of

watc that the time has been when the whiskey o! this country would have been a very unaccountable exchange for foreign spirits to the higher class oi consumers. But they do not helieve that the objection can, at this time, be alleged. Such has been the advance in skill ami experience in the art of distilling spirits from grain, that the whiskey ot this country has become a very palatable and a very fashionable, as it is no doubt the least injurious liquor. The committee, therefore, cannot suppose that the comfoits, or cven the luxuries of cur citizens, will be much restricted or materially affected by ch an increase of duty upon foreign spirits as reduce the quantity imported. But as inseparably connected with the subject cf foreign spirits, is that of spirits distil-

led in our own country, from foreign materi

als- Although the committee have no means of ascertaining the quantity of this kind of spirits at present distilled in the U States, yet, from the large importationsof the material from which it is made, there is strong reason to conclude that the numbecof gd'ons must be somewhat greater than the whole number of gallons of foreign spirits imported The importation of molasses into this

j country, for the last 6 years, has ranged from

the witnesses proves that the denominations

oi window glass exceeding 10 by 15 inches, is not sufficiently protected, and the commiueo have proposed an alteration in the p esent dutic upon these sizes of window glass. The only material alteration which the committee have proposed inhe existing laws regulating ou- duties upon imports, is an increase of the minimum upon cottons, from 30 cents, at which it now stands, to 35 cents. The object of this has been to reach a finer description of cotton cloths; and lor the cvidence upon which they have recommended this alteration, they refer the house to the testimony of the witnesses who have brcn examined upon the subject of cottons, heiewith reported Should there be found errors in tins report, the committee have to offer for their excuse, the very short time which has been allowed to prepare it ; and they would gladly havo avoided accompanying their bill with any report, but for the fact, that their request to bo allowed to examine witnesses, has excited some feeling in the house, as well as in tho country, and they felt it a duty they owned to themselves to give this detailed history of the manner in which they have discharged the important trust.

AdminNtiator's Notice. THE creditors ol the estate of John Ham borough, (late of Sullivan coum,Ia) deceased, will take notice, that I shall claim the settlement thereof as insolvent, having discovered that it is so Wat. POKE, Jidn, 4 February 23, 1828. 4-3t