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Morrill
Tariff Bill The U. S. House of Representatives passed the Morrill Tariff Bill (H. R. 338) 105 to 64, Thursday, May 10, 1860. The 0nly Southern Congressman who voted for raising the average tariff from about 15% to 37%, was from Tennessee: 1. William T. Avery Against, 2. Reese B. Brabson , 3. Emerson Etheridge For, 4. Robert Hatton , 5. Horace Maynard , 6. Thomas A. R. Nelson , 7. James M. Quarles , 8. William B. Stokes , 9. James H. Thomas Against, 10. John V. Wright Against, And it was decided in the affirmative, Yeas ... 105 Nays ... 64 The yeas and nays being desired by one-fifth of the members present. Proposals and Debate The United States Senate 36th Congress, 2nd Session December 11, 1860, The Morrill Tariff Bill, was discussed by the U. S. Senate. Page 37: Mr. Bragg submitted the following resolution; which was considered by unanimous consent, and agreed to: Resolved, That the chaplain elected by the Senate on the 15th day of December, 1859, to officiate on the part of the Senate at the last session, be continued during the present session of Congress. The Senate proceeded to consider the resolution submitted by Mr. Hale, the 5th instant, to print extra copies of the eleventh volume of the Pacific Railroad Report. On motion by Mr. Cameron, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 338) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports and for other purposes. It was determined in the affirmative, . . . The Senate resumed, as in committee of the whole, the consideration of the said bill, with the amendment proposed thereto by Mr. Lane. On motion by Mr. Lane, that the bill and the proposed amendment be recommitted to the Committee on Finance. It was determined in the affirmative, . . . December 12, 1860, Mr. Bigler submitted an amendment, which he intended to propose to the bill (H. R. 338) . . , and moved that the same be referred to the Committee on Finance. It was determined in the affirmative. December 20, 1860, Mr. Hunter, from the Committee on Finance, to whom was recommitted the bill (H. R. 338) . . , reported it without amendment, and with a recommendation that the consideration of the bill be postponed to the 4th day of March next. January 18, 1861, Page 115: On motion by Mr. Cameron, The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 338.) . . . On motion by Mr. Cameron, Ordered, That the further consideration of the bill be postponed to and made the special order of the day for Wednesday next, at one o'clock. January 23, 1861, Pages 136-137. On motion by Mr. Simmons, Ordered, That the bill be referred to a select committee, to consist of five members, with instructions to report to the Senate on Wednesday next, the 30th instant. On motion by Mr. Gwin, Ordered, That the Committee be appointed by the Vice-President. January 24, 1861, Page 139: The Vice-President, announced the appointment of the select committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338.) . . . James F. Simmons, Rhode Island, R. M. T. Hunter, Virginia, William Bigler, Pennsylvania, William Pitt Fessenden, Maine, and William M. Gwin, California, Mr. Seward presented additional papers in support of the claim of Samuel F. B. Morse, for an extension of his patent; which were referred to the Committee on Patents and the Patent Office. Mr. Wilson presented a petition of manufacturers of tools and firearms of Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, and New Hampshire, praying that the duty on steel may not be increased; which was referred to the select committee on the tariff bill, (H. R. 338.) Page 140. On motion by Mr. King, Ordered, That the petition of manufacturers of cutlery, edge tools, and machinery, yesterday presented by him, be referred to the select committee on the tariff bill, (H. R. 338.) On motion by Mr. Hunter, Ordered, That the petitions of hardware dealers and manufacturers of edge tools and machinery, and other articles of steel or iron, heretofore presented to the Senate, be referred to the select committee on the tariff bill, (H. R. 338.) Mr. Clingman presented a petition of importers of window glass, in the city of New York, praying such a modification of the tariff bill now before the Senate as will make the duty on glass more equal and just; which was referred to the select committee on the tariff bill, (H. R. 338.) . . . Page 141: Mr. Fessenden presented a petition of citizens of New York, praying that a donation of land and other assistance may be granted to the Peoples Pacific Railroad Company. Ordered, That it lie on the table. Mr. Fessenden was, on his motion, excused from serving as a member of the select committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338.) . . . On motion by Mr. Fessenden, Ordered, That the January 30, 1861, Page 165: Mr. Simmons presented a petition of importers of the city of New York, praying that the tariff bill now before the Senate may be postponed until the next session of Congress; which was referred to the select committee on the tariff bill, (H. R. 338.) February 01, 1861, Page 174. Mr. Simmons, from the select committee, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 338.) . . , reported it with amendments. On motion by Mr. Simmons, Ordered, That the bill and amendments be printed, and that five hundred additional copies thereof be printed. (Postponed to Wednesday next.) February 06, 1861, Page 195. The Vice-President stated that the hour of one o'clock having arrived, it was the duty of the Chair to call up the special order of the day for that hour, which was the bill (H. R. 338) . . ; but that the unfinished business of yesterday, which was the motion to print additional copies of the message of the President of the United States, communicating the resolutions passed by the legislature of Virginia in favor of a peaceable settlement of the questions which now threaten the Union, had preference of the special order, and was the business now before the Senate; . . . ( H. R. 338 was postponed.) February 08, 1861, Page 203: The Vice-President signed . . . the enrolled resolution (H. R. 71) extending the time for taking testimony on the application of Cyrus H. McCormick for the extension of his patent. The following message was received from the President of the United States, . . . I deemed it a duty to transmit to Congress, with my message of the 8th of January, the correspondence which occurred in December last between the commissioners of South Carolina and myself. Since that period, on the 14th January Colonel Isaac W. Hayne, the attorney general of South Carolina, called and informed me that he was the bearer of a letter from Governor Pickens to myself, which he would deliver the next day. He was, however, induced, by the interposition of Hon. Jefferson Davis and nine other senators from the seceded and seceding States, not to deliver it on the day appointed, nor was it communicated to me until the 31st of January, with his letter of that date. Their letter to him urging this delay bears date January 15, and was the commencement of a correspondence, the whole of which in my possession I now submit to Congress. A reference to each letter of the series, in proper order, accompanies this message. JAMES BUCHANAN. Washington February 8, 1861. On motion by Mr. Simmons, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of the bill (H. R. 338.) . . . Page 204: The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the said bill. On motion by Mr. Gwin, that the Senate proceed to the consideration of executive business, It was determined in the negative, . . . On motion by Mr. Fitch, that the Senate adjourn, It was determined in the negative, . . . So the motion was not agreed to. On motion by Mr. Latham, The Senate adjourned. February 09, 1861, Page 206: Postponed. February 13, 1861, Page 227: On motion by Mr. Cameron, The Senate resumed, as in Committee of the Whole, the consideration of the bill (H. R. 338.) . . ; and, After debate, The Senate adjourned. February 16, 1861, Page 242: On the question to agree to the amendment proposed by Mr. Seward, to wit: In the amendment reported by the select committee to the twenty-ninth section of the bill, strike out of the amendment the words ninety days, in the thirty-second line, and in lieu thereof insert three years, It was determined in the affirmative, . . . Page 243: Further amendment was made on motion by Mr. Seward, to strike out the twenty-ninth section of the bill, as amended, . . . and On motion by Mr. Wade, to amend the bill, section 10, line 26, after the word linseed, by striking out ten, and in lieu thereof inserting sixteen, It was determined in the affirmative, . . . February 18, 1861, Page 252: On motion by Mr. Simmons, to amend the bill by striking out in the eighteenth section, line four, the following words: printed in the English language, or of which the English forms the text, bound or unbound, fifteen cents per pound; and on all books printed in foreign languages, eight cents per pound, and in lieu thereof inserting: periodicals and pamphlets, and all printed matter, and illustrated books and papers; and on watches and parts of watches, and watch materials, and unfinished parts of watches, fifteen per centum ad valorem. Page 253: On motion by Mr. Seward, to amend the proposed amendment by inserting after the word papers, ten per centum ad valorem. It was determined in the negative, . . . The amendment of Mr. Simmons was then agreed to. The bill having been further amended, On motion by Mr. Simmons, to amend the bill by striking out in the fifth section, line nine, after the word first, the following words: On raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado or brown sugar, not advanced beyond its raw state by claying, boiling, clarifying, or other process, one cent per pound; . . . Page 254. Page 255: On the question to agree to the amendment proposed by Mr. Simmons, It was determined in the On motion by Mr. Simmons to amend the bill by striking out in the first section, line six, the word twenty-one, and in lieu thereof inserting ten. Page 256: On the question to agree to the amendment of Mr. Simmons, It was determined in the affirmative. On motion by Mr. Pearce, to amend the bill by inserting at the end of the third section the words: Provided further, That no part of the loan hereby authorized shall be applied to the service of the present fiscal year, It was determined in the affirmative. An amendment being proposed by Mr. Simmons, On motion by Mr. Hunter, that the Senate adjourn, It was determined in the negative, . . . The number of senators voting not constituting a quorum of the Senate, On motion by Mr. Doolittle, The Senate adjourned. February 19, 1861, Page 260: Motions by Mr. Simmons, Mr. Bayard, and Mr. Bingham, to amend the bill were accepted. Pages 261-264. February 20, 1861, (H. R. 338.) Pages 267-269: On the question to concur in the following amendment, made as in Committee of the Whole, to wit: strike out in the fifth section the following words: On raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado or brown sugar, . . . And in lieu thereof insert the following: On raw sugar, commonly called Muscovado, or brown sugar, not advanced beyond the raw state . . . and on syrup of sugar, or of sugar cane, and concentrated molasses, . . . and not refined, three fourths of one cent per pound; on refined sugars, whether loaf or lump, crushed or pulverized, two cents per pound; on sugars after being refined, when they are tinctured, colored, or in any way adulterated, and on sugar candy, four cents per pound: . . . on molasses, two cents per gallon; on confectionary of all kinds, not otherwise provided for, thirty per centum ad valorem. Second. On coffee, one cent and a half per pound; on tea, when imported from any port or place beyond the Cape of Good Hope, four cents per pound; when imported from any port or place this side the Cape of Good Hope, other than in the country where produced, four cents per pound, and an addition thereto of ten per centum ad valorem: . . . Pages 270-274: Changes are proposed and accepted. Page 275: No further amendment being proposed, Ordered, That the amendments be engrossed and the bill read a third time. The said bill, as amended, was read the third time. On the question, Shall the bill pass? It was determined in the affirmative, Yeas ... 25 Nays ... 14 Those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Henry B. Anthony (Rhode Island), Edward D. Baker (Oregon), William Bigler (Pennsylvania), Kinsley S. Bingham (Michigan), Simon Cameron (Pennsylvania), Zachariah Chandler (Michigan), Daniel Clark (New Hampshire), James R. Doolittle (Wisconsin), Charles Durkee (Wisconsin), William Pitt Fessenden (Maine), Solomon Foot (Vermont), Lafayette S. Foster (Connecticut), James W. Grimes (Iowa), John P. Hale (New Hampshire), James Harlan (Iowa), Preston King (New York), Justin Smith Morrill (Vermont), William H. Seward (New York), James F. Simmons (Rhode Island), Charles Sumner (Massachusetts), John C. Ten Eyck (New Jersey), Lyman Trumbull (Illinois), Benjamin F. Wade (Ohio), Morton S. Wilkinson (Minnesota), Henry Wilson (Massachusetts). Those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Thomas Bragg (North Carolina), Thomas L. Clingman (North Carolina), Stephen A. Douglas (lllinois), James S. Green (Missouri), R. M. T. Hunter (Virginia), Robert W. Johnson, of Arkansas, Andrew Johnson, of Tennessee, Joseph Lane (Oregon), Milton S. Latham (California), Alfred O. P. Nicholson (Tennessee), James A. Pearce (Maryland), Trusten Polk (Missouri), Henry M. Rice (Minnesota), William K. Sebastian (Arkansas). So it was Resolved, That the bill pass with amendments. Ordered, That the Secretary request the concurrence of the House of Representatives in the amendments. February 25, 1861, Page 302. February 26, 1861, Page 317. February 27, 1861, Pages 330-332. The Vice-President laid before the Senate a communication from the Hon. John Tyler, president of a convention assembled in the city of Washington, composed of commissioners appointed by the authorities of twenty-one of the States of the Confederacy, for the purpose of recommending some method of adjusting the unhappy differences which now disturb the peace of the Union and threaten its continuance, transmitting certain proposed amendments to the Constitution of the United States, recommended by said convention, with the request of that body that they may be submitted to the several States of the national Confederacy. The communication was read. February 28, 1861, Page 336: The Speaker of the House of Representatives having signed an enrolled bill (H. R. 388) to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes, I am directed to bring it to the Senate for the signature of its President. Page 337: Mr. Crittenden, from the select committee, to whom was referred the communication yesterday received from the president of the convention of commissioners appointed by the authorities of twenty-one States of the Union, assembled at the city of Washington; for the purpose of agreeing upon some plan for adjusting the questions which now threaten the Union, reported a joint resolution (S. 70) proposing certain amendments to the Constitution of the United States. Mr. Trumbull, appointed to notify Abraham Lincoln, of his election as President of the United States, reported: . . . Page 339: The Vice-President signed the following enrolled bills, and they were delivered to the committee to be presented to the President of the United States: H. R. 338. An act to provide for the payment of outstanding treasury notes, to authorize a loan, to regulate and fix the duties on imports, and for other purposes. A message from the House of Representatives, by Mr. Forney, its Clerk: Mr. President: The House of Representatives has passed a joint resolution (H. R. 80) to amend the Constitution of the United States, in which it requests the concurrence of the Senate. Page 340: The hour of one o'clock had arrived, and the special order of the day for that hour, was was the report of the select committee, regarding: some plan for the adjustment of the questions which now agitate the country and threaten the Union. [ Joint resolution (S. 70) ] March 01, 1861, Page 348: Mr. Bingham reported from the committee that they presented to the President of the United States, on the 28th ultimo, the following enrolled bills: H. R. 338. . . . Morrill Tariff Bill: Enacted legislation Published in the Congressional Globe: TARIFF OF 1861. The Unionist John C. Calhoun. Historical Histri-Onyx ! Meating of the Minds? Politics of Slavery, TaxJudas.com LandGrab.us |