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inoehnite postponemen of this bal, on the mo- and as the bill will not go into opera un until tio of the Senato, from New Hampshire, (Mr. another session intervees, I am dispes- to BELL,) but, since we are call d to record our ithdraw my opposition and permit e bill to votes again on a similar motion, and his vote pass, not by an affirmative vote, but my Wie would now be recorded against it, he felt i which will be equally effective, by vog due to himself to explain the reasons which in- against the motion for indefinite postponement. duced him to give a different vote at this time. Another reason which will induce me o nie Sir, said Mr. F,there is not a Senator on this against the present motion is, that i is a le floor more disposed than myself to make a y avowedly on he ground that "the principle of reasonable sacrifice for the pre ervation of the protection to our manufactures is recognised in peace and ha mony of this confederacy, to re- it:" and Senators have declarad this to be good leve any portion from unreasonable or une-ground for tts rejection. Sir, agairs: this docqual burdens, to endeavor to allay any unfortrine I enter my solema protest! It says the tunate excitement, produced even by mistaken foundation of all government! What is the first notions of inequality in the operation of any of duty of government? Protection! Wil you our laws. On his ground, and on this alone, confine this obligation to the protection of the was my vote recorded in favor of the bill as lives of your citizens alone? Will you not examended by the Senate. And after the re-tend it to their property? And is this to be conpeated declaration of the Senator from South fined to protection of property only game lawCarolina, (Mr HAYNE,) and the Senator from less pirates and robbers? Is it not equally the Alabama, (Mr. KING,) and others, that this bill duy of he Government to protect the property would afford no relief, but was more obnoxious of its citiz ns against dam ge or injury, aris ng than even the act of 1828, so often called the from the legislation of foreign nations, by coun "bill of abominations," I was disposed to unite te vailing legislation or tesiriction, and to enwith them in rejecting it. But, Sir, in this courage and protect their industry? This has vote they did not unite. been the policy of this Government from he To me this bill has no charms Perhaps commencement of its existence! The very there is not a single State in this Uniou which first act of Congress, after the adoption of the will be more, if as much affected by its passage constitution, recognises this pri ciple, and adas my own. More manufactures of various de-mits tas to be its duty. It has had the sanc'ion scriptions are springing up under the protection of forty years, and Senators may rest assured of your laws in the State of Connecticut than in it will not be abandoned. It cannot be aban any other portion of the Uniou. Many of them doned while the Government has an existence. are in their infancy, and must be seriously af. Without this principle of protection no governfec ed, if not totally prostrated by this bill.ment would be worth preserving, nor deserve The Committee of Conference had proposed to the name. Nor will my vote be given on any surrender every a Lendment made in the Se-question, to sanction for a moment or t counnate, in which oua smaller manufacturers were tenance any doctrine so fatal in its tendency. particularly interested,, and some of which a- Mr. MANGUM. He would vote for the inmendments had been made at my suggestion, definite postponement. It was not enough from letters and information laid before the that the revenue was reduced, for the bill car Committee of Manufactures by me. These ried out the odious principle of in quality; the were all to be surrendered without a struggle; rich would be indulged in their luxuries without without an effort to save them. The committee taxation, whilst the poor were heavily burthenknew full well our convictions of the blighting ed. He would not sanction the bil, because effects of the bill on the eastern States, and he believed it would go to fix a settled s stem particularly in the State which has honored me of the policy of protection. Its principle was with a seat on this floor, without the amend to do evil that good might result, but he would ment of the Senate, for I had stated them in rely that a returning sense of justice would yet the discussion of those amendments, and pro-influence their counsels. duced the proof. I have this day received an. Mr. KING said, but for the remarks that had other letter from an intelligent fariner, who has been made, it was not his intention to have tresmade great exertions to improve the quality of passed on the attention of t e Sinate The the wool in this country, who says "the hopes Senator from Kentucky, ( ir. CLAT,) had obe of the wool growers are destroyed, and even served that the southern gentlemen, by their the Saxony sheep must be resigned up to the former vote, had conceded the opinions in butcher. favor of the present measure. "Such was ot The question is now presented under cir- the case; for himself, he would never be in facumstance somewhat different. The Senate vor of a measure which pre erved the pres nt have acted on the amendments. My votes have been in favor of the amendments of the Senate -but as, in all cases, minorities must submit, in this case it becomes my duty. The Chair man of the committee has stated his determina tion, that if, at the next session, i shall be ascertained that any infant manufacture will be seriously injured, he will unite in any further amendment in favor of necessary protection;

inequality. H had said, on a former occasion, that he would vote, though, reluctantly, for the bill as it came from the House; but it had undergone such changes here for the worse, that be voted against it as amended. He had voted against the act of 1824; he had also voted against the bill of 1828. But all the appeals of the south had been he.e.ofore disregarded. In the measure now introduced, the friends of

The question was then taken on the motion for ind finite postponement, and lost by the following vote.

YEAS-Messrs. Bell, Bibb, Hayne, Holmes, Mangum, Miller, Moore, Naudain, Poindexter, Robbins, Ruggles, Tazewell, Troup, Tyler, and Waggaman-15.

protection had been i duced, to make some responsibility of a measure fraught with such mitigation in less ning the public burdens; on fatal consequences to others. this grond, when the odious amendments were receded from, he would vote for the bill, though still with reluctance, and in hopes of further relief from he syst m. It was for the first time in his experience, that he had heard such language of censure used to Committee of Conference, as that which came from th Sena tor from Kentncky, and you yourself, Mr Chair- NAYS-Messrs. Benton, Brown, Chambers, mn, aid Mr. K, scarc ly escaped for y ur ap. Clay, Dallas, Dickerson, Dudley, Ellis, Ewing, pointment of the member of that commit. Foot, Forsyth. Frelinghuysen, Grundy, HenWho had ever heard of a Committee of Condricks, Hill, John-ton, Kane, King, Knight, ference yielding nothing? It was for the very Marcy, Robinson, Seymour, Silsbee, Smith, purpose of compromise that recourse was had Sprague, Tipton, Tomlinson, Webster, White,

The remaining amendmen was then concut

to that mode. The Senator from Pennsylvania, and Wilkins-30.
(Mr. WILKINS,) had been denounced, but his
firm and high character could not be affect dred in.
by the assault. The gent man from Ken-
tucky had congratulated nimself in anticipation

LIST OF ACTS

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of having the future support of the gentlemen Passed at the First Session of the Twenty-second of the south, out he had reckoned without his host. As regarded the present bill, and the existing law, he would choose the lesser evil; yet he would not co promit his principles; and on a future occasion his friends would find him combating by their side.

An ac supplementary to the "Act for the relief of cer ain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution;"

Providing for the organization of the Ordnance Department;

To authorize the mounting and equipment of part of the army of the United States;

Providing for the purchase, by the United States, of the rights of the Washington Bridge Company, in the District of Columbia, and for the erection of a public bridge on the site

Confirming to Joshua Kennedy his claim to a tract of land in the city of Mobile;

To enable the President to extinguish Indian titles within the States of Indiana and Illinois,

For the relief of Dixon Spears;
For the relief of John Proctor;
For the relief of Edward S. Meeder;
For the relief of John H. Harrison;
To amend an act entitled "An act for the

For the relief of Don Carlos Dehault De

Mr. HAYNE said, he had but one more word to say before the final question was taken. From the beginning of the session up to the! present moment, he had, with the most perfect good faith, voted for every proposition and used is u most efforts to effect such a mo dification of the tariff as should remove exist-thereof; ing difficulties and do equal justice to all parts of the country. The bill has been put into the form which the tariff majority in both houses had thought proper to give it, and it now only remained for him, at this last stage of its pro-and Territory of Michigan ; gress to record his sentiments in relation to it. He had examined its provisions carefully. Hel was perfectly satisfied that it did not propose to effect reduction in the revenue of more than from three to four millions of dollars, and of this nearly the whole amount was on unpro-relief of George Johnston," passed March 2, tected articles. So far, it aggravated the in- 1831; justice and inequality, of which the south had so loudly complained. This bill recognises lassus; the protecting system; it has been arranged throughout on the single princi le of taking care of the interests of the manufacturers, and was now openly supported by the tariff party, on the ground that this protection was inadequate to the object, and it had been openly avowed that, if it should, in any case, prove otherwise, further protection was to be hereafter extended. The duties retained by this bill were most unreasonable and exofbitant 57 per cent. upon woollens, upwards of 100 per cent. upon cottons and iron, and still higher upon salt and sugar, while articles of lexury, only because they did not come into compevuon with domestic manufactures, were to be admitted duty free. He regarded this bill a fixing the system upon the country forever, beyond hope of future relief. He should, the fore, vote for its indefinite postponement, of Col. John Laurens; and if the bill was to pass, he would leave the

Supplementary to the several laws for the sale of public lands;

To authorize the State of Illinois to sell twenty thousand acres of the saline lands in said State;

For the relief of Joseph Chamberlain; Supplementary to an act to grant pre-emp. tion r ghts to settlers on public lands; For the relief of Hartwell Vick, of the State of Mississippi;

For the relief of John J. Jacob;

For the relief of John Brickwood Taylor;
To authorize the inhabitants of the State of
Louisiana to enter their back lands;

For the relief of he sureties of Amos Edwards;

For the relief of George E. Tringle;
For the relief of the personal representatives"

For the relief of Heman Allen;

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For the erection of barracks, quarters, and Court of the United States for the State of Illi storehouses, and the purchase of a site, in the nois; vicinity of New Orleans;

For the relief of the legal representatives of Petr, Catharine, and Cha les Surget; Confirming the claim of Maria Holliday to a tract of land in Louisiana;

For the relief of Jefferson College, in the State of Mississippi;

For the relief of the representatives of Elias Earle, deceased;

For the relief of James W. Zachary;

Granting to the Territory of A kansas one thousand acres of land for the erection of a court-house and jail, at Little Rock;

Granting to Middleton M'Kay a section of land in lieu of the reservation given him by the treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek;

Supplemental to the act "granting the right of pre-emption to settlers on the public lands," approved the 29th day of May, 1830;

For the relief of John Brunson;

For the relief of Abiah Warren and others;
For the relief of Thomas Denis and of the

legal representatives of Asa Hartfield;

For the final adjustment of private land claims in Missouri;

For the relief of Pierre Leglize;
For the relief of Walter Cockburn;
For the relief of Wm. A. Tennille;

To increase the number of surgeons and assistant surgeons in the army of the United States;

For the relief Wm. Dickson,

For the relief of Timothy Risley;

To provide for the appointment of a commissioner of Indian affairs, and for other purposes; To release from duty iron prepared for, and actually laid on, railways or inclined planes;

For the relief of John F. Girod, of Louisiana; To revive and continue in force "an act authorizing the payment of certain certificates," approved May 7th, 1822;'

For the relief of Heary Wa ler;

For the relief of John Bryant and George W. Howard;

For the benefit of St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum, of the city of Washington, under

To increase and improve the Law Depart-the direction of the sisters of charity; and of

ment of the Library of Congress;

For the relief of Richard G. Morris;
Granting a pension to Wm. Scott;
For the relief of Silvia Posner;

the Washington City Orphan As lum; and for other purposes;

Granting certain city lots to the corporation of the Columbian College, for the purposes

For the relief the officers and soldiers of for herein mentioned; Delaware;

For the relief of Joseph Elliot; For the relief of Bartholomew Shaumburgh; To authorise the Judges of the Courts of the United States to take bail of the claimants of property seized, and perform other acts in va cation;

For the relief of Chistopher Brooks;

For the relief of the sureties of Geo. Brown, deceased, late Collector of Internal Duties and Direct tax for the first district, in the State of Maryland;

Concerning certain officers of the marine

corps;

For the relief of Thomas Holdup Stevens, et al.,

To provide for the taking of certain observations, preparatory to the adjustment of the northern boundary line of the State of Ohio;

To amend an act entitled "an act for the relief of purchasers of the public lands that have revcited for nonpayment of the purchase money," passed May 23, 1828;

To create the office of Surveyor of the pub.

For the relief of William Nelson, administra-lic lands for the territory of Arkansas; tor of the estate of Andrew Nelson, deceased, and for other purposes;

To provide for liquidating and paying certain claims of the State of Virginia;

For the relief of Augustine Taney;

For the relief of Guy W. Smith;

For the relief of the executors of Robert C. Jennings and James Roddy, deceased;

For the relief of John and Benjamin Wells; For the relief of William Wayne Wells, of the State of Indiana;

For the relief Samuel May;

For the relief of Nathaniel A. Ware; For the relief of the heirs and legal represen tatives of Edward Barry, deceased;

For the relief of David E. Twiggs, Joseph
M. Street, and Stephen W. Hearney;
For the relief of Gertrude Gates,

For the relief of the heirs of Thomas Davenport;

For the relief of Jacob C. Jordan; To exempt the vessels of Portugal from the payment of the duties on tonnage;

To authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise with the trustees of the late firm of Thomas H. Smith & So.), and their securities, the claims of the United States upon the said firm and their securities;

To extend the perio to which the charter of the l'rovident Association of clerks was limited;

To authorise the legislature of the State of Indiana to sell and convey certain lauds granted To authorise the Secretary of the Treasury to said State for the use of the people thereof; to compromise the claim of the United States To authorise the sale of lands reserved from on the Farmers and Mechanics Bank of Indisale at Fort Jackson in the State of Alabama; For the relief of Elizabeth Scott, only surviving child and heir-at-law of Captain William Blackwell, deceased;

To alter the times of holding the District

ana;

For the relief of Rebecca Blodget, widow of Saml Blodget, dec'd;

Supplemental to the act "granting certain relinquished and unappropriated lands to the

State of Alabama, for the puros of improving the navigation of the Tennessee, Coosa, Cabawba, and Black Warrior rivers," approved May 23, 1828;

To provide for carrying into effect the treaty of limits between the U. States of America and the United Mexican St.tes;

Concerning tonnage duty on Spanish ve sels; Acs for the relief of H. H. Tuckerman; For the relief of Robertson and Barnwell; For the relief of W. and J. and Charles E. Quincy,

For the adjustment of the claims of South Carolina against the United States,

For the relief of John Sapp;
For the relief of James McCarty;
For the relief of Eward Lee;
For the relief of Stephen Hook;

For the relief of W. D King, James Davies, and Garland Linicum;

For the relief of Antoine Dequindre and other Michigan volunteers;

For the relief of Robert A. Forsyth;

For the relief of Eben Hubbard;

For the relief of Sylvester Havens;

For the relief of Jane Muir;

For the relief of W. Forsyth;

For the relief of Percia Tupper, executrix of Samuel Tupper, deceased

For the relief of Leonard Denison and Elisha Ely;

For the relief of Henry Kilburn;
For the relief of Robert Kaine';
For the relief of Samuel Keep;

Fo the relief of Jared Con;

A bili authorizing the construction of Naval Hospitals at the Navy Yards at Charlestown, M ssachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, and Pensacola;

A oil to provide for completing the Naval
Hospital at Norfolk and Naval Assylum at
Philadelphia, and to furnish them in part;
For the relief of John Rogers;
For the relief of Prosper Marigny;
For the reh. f of John McDonough;
For the relief of Capt. Thomas Paine;
For the relief of Ephraim Whitaker;
To carry into effect the act to provide for a
survey of the coast of the United States;
For the relief of Arnaud Lanaux;
For the relief of A. W. Hardie;

For the relief of Joseph Sonat Dufossat;
For the relief of Cel. stin Chiapella;

To provide for the relief of distressed American seamen;

For the relief of John H. Thomas, claiming under Antoine Patin;

To provide for the payment of arrearages in the Naval service, chargeable to the enumerate contingent, prior to the 1st of January, 1832;

To provide iron tanks for the use of the Navy of the United States;

To provide for completing the erection and removal of the Naval Monument;

To provide for paying certain arrearages for surveys made by naval officers;

For the relief of the reprensatives of David

For the relief of Anthony Foreman and John Dardin; G. Ross, Cherokee Delegation;

For the relief of the President and Directors.

for the relief of W. Pawters;

For the relief of John Roberts, late Major of

and Company of the Miami Exporting Com- infantry in the revolution. ry war;

pany;

Fr the relief of William Tharp;

For the relief of Ariel Ensign;

For the relief of A. H. Richardson, executor of Val. Richardson;

For the relief of the legal representatives of Samuel Wagstaff;

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For the relief of Charles Cassidy;
For the relief of Peter Peck;
For the relief of Lewis Anderson;
For the relief of James Lewis Sawyer;
For the relief of A iam Peck;

For the relies of Join Menary;
For the relief of Amariah Squirrel,
tratrix of Jacob Squirrel;

For the relief of George J. Kught;
For the relief of the heirs of S. Kennedy;
For the relief of Joseph W. Torrey;
To direct the manner of issuing patents on
confirmed land claims in Florida;

For the relief of Eliakim Crosby;

For the relief of the heirs and residuary legatees of William Carter;

For the relief of John H. Wendell;
For the relief of Ichabod Ward;

For the relief of J hn Heard, jr., surviving assignee of Amasa Davis, jr.;

To remit a part of the duties on a cargo imadminis-ported in the brig Liberator;

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For the relief of Hopkins Rice; Making appropriations for 1832; For the relief of B. Joseph Flaget; For the relief of the representatives of John McHugh;

For the relief of Dorothy Wells;

To alter the time of holding the term of the Circuit Court of the southern District of New York;

Explanatory of the act entitled an act for the rehef of the officers and soldiers of the Vginia line and navy, and fthe Continental ar uy turing the revolutionary war, approved 30th Ma, 1830;

For the relief of the inhabitants of Terre aux Bœuf;

For the relief of John Knight;

To provide the rebuilding the frigate Java, and sloop Cyane;

To finish the rebuilding the frigate Macedonian;

For the relief of Richard H. Steel;
For the relief of Hannah McKim,
For the relief of Jose h Kamber;

For the relief of heirs of Joseph Buckley, deceased;

For the relief Benjamin B-litt;

For the relief Bernard Leonard, and Jacob Black;

Making appropriations for the Revolutionary and other pensioners of the United States for 1832;

For the relief of David Kilburne;

Por the relief of Cornelius Overton;
For the relief of Harvey Brown;
For the relief of Samuel Dale;
For the relief of Gates Hoit;

For the relief of Ann D. Baylor;

with Martinique and Guadaloupe," approved May 9, 1828. And to refund the tonnage de ty on the French stip Victorine;

Concerning the issuing of patenta to aliem for useful discoveries;

Making appropriations for the naval service for 1832;

For the relief of invalid pensioners of the U. States;

To amend the several acts establishing the territorial government of Florida;

To authorize the disposition of the fund aris ing from the sale of a quarter section of land, reserved for the use of schools in Florida;

To change the time of holding the United States District court at Staunton, in the wes tern district of Virginia;

Making appropriations for certain internal improvements for 1832;

Making appropriations towards the expense of laying out and opening a military road from For Howard, at Green Bay, to Fost Crawford,

For the relief of the heirs of Nathaniei Hil-in the Mississippi; ler.

To authorise the surveying and laying out a road from Detroit, westwardly, by way of Sceuwassee to the mouth of Grand River, of Lake Michigan, in Michigan Territory;

For the relief of James L. Dawson, Sarah Easton, and Dorothy Storer;

To amend the act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution;

For the relief of Alexander Oswald Brodie;
For the relief of John Buhler;

For the relief of the widow and heirs of Pedro, alias Pierre Guedry;

Authorising the Secretary of War to pay to the Seneca tribe of Indians, the balance of an annuity of 6,000 dollars, usually paid, and remaining unpaid from 1829;

Making appropriations for the army for 1832; Authorising the surveying and making a road from La Plaisance Bay, in Michigan, to intersect the Chicago road;

For the relief of W. Hoffman;

For the relief of W. D. Gaines and W. M. King;

For the relief Aaron Snow;

Making appropriations for the Indian Department for 1832;

Making appropriations for fortifications for 1832;

For the relief of W. Williamson;

To authorize the Governor of Arkansas to lease the salt springs in said territory, and for other purposes;

For the relief of the legal representatives of Nimrod Farrow and Richard Harris;

To authorize the Secretary of the Treasury to compromise the claim of the United States in the commercial bank of Lake Erie

For the relief of certain invalid and other pensioners, therein named,

For the relief of Edmund Brooke;

To extend the limits of Georgetown, in the District of Columbia;

To revive and continue in force "an act for the relief of the representatives of John Donelson, Stephen Heard, and others;"

In addition to "an act for the relief of certais insolvent debtors;"

Authorizing a revision and exten-ion of the rules and regulations of the naval service;

To authorize the President of the United States to direct transfers of appropriations in the naval service, under certain circumstances; For giving effect to an arrangement between the U. States and the republic of Mexic

For quieting possesions, enrolling conveyances, and securing the estates of purchasers in the District of Columbia;

For the relief of Randal Allis, Timothy Twitchell, and John Lee Williams;

To establish certain post roads, and to alter

For the relief of the legal representatives of and discontinue others, and for other purposes; Reginald, alias Reynolds Hillary;

For the relief of Benjamin Gibbs;
For the relief of Mary Daws, Robert Bond,
James Partridge, and J. G. Smith;

To add a part of the southern to the northern district of Alabama;

For the apportionment of Representatives among the several States, according to the Fifth Census;

For the relief of John Lacy;

For the relief of Nathan Towson;

To extend the provisions of the act entitled "An act regulating commercial intercourse

For the relief of Thomas and James Missingill, David Brooks, James W. Hill, Elijah Hill, and Philip Barnes;

To aid the vestry of Washington parish, in the erection of a keeper's house, and the im provemen and security of the ground allotted for the interment of members of Congress, and other public officers;

To amend an act, entitled "an act to enlarge the powers of the several Corporations of the District of Columbia;"

To define the qualifications of voters in the Territory of Arkansas;

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