WEBSTER'S SPEECH.

Can any man gainsay the truth of all this? Is["little Congress," to which the honorable memthere a merchant, foreign or American, in the ber from Connecticut (Mr. NILES) referred some United States who will express any contrariety days ago-some subordinate officers about the of opinion? Is there a man, high or low, who de- Custom-House, influenced by I know not what mies it? I know of none; I have heard of none. considerations-who may be found ready to susSir, it has been the experience of this Govern-tain such a system. That I do not deny. But J ment, always, that the ad valorem system is open say that no respectable importing merchant can to innumerable frauds. What is the case with be found between Penobscot and Richmond, who England? In her new notions, favorably to free will give his opinion in favor of it, if he is an honStrade, has she rushed madly into a scheme of ad est man, and one who gets his living by importa Svalorem duties? Sir, a system of ad valorem du- tion himself. Well, then, how are we decide ?ties is not free trade, but fraudulent trade. Has Against the authority of our own experience ?— England countenanced this? Not at all; not at Against the authority of these thousands ofsubstanSall. Sir, on the contrary, on every occasion of a tiated facts? Against these cases now blushing revision of the tariff of England, a constant effort with recent fraud? Against the example, not only Shas been made, and progress attained in every of the English Government, but against that of all Scase, to augment the number of specific duties, the continental Governments-for the Zollverein Sand reduce the number of ad valorem duties. A carries its specific duties much farther even than Sgentleman in the other House (Mr. SEAMAN) has England? Against all this, what have we ?Staken pains-which I have taken, also, though I what have we? Why, we have the recommend(believe not quite so thoroughly as he has to golation of the President of the United States and through the items of the British tariff, and see the Secretary of the Treasury-highly respecta (what proportion of duties in that tariff are ad va-ble persons; respectable in private life; reslorem and what are specific. Now, sir, the result pectable, and I may say eminent, in some walks of that examination shows, that at this day, in of public life; but I must add, neither of them (this British tariff, out of six hundred articles, five trained in the knowledge of commerce; neither (hundred are subject to specific duties. Every of them having had habits of intercourse with (thing that from its nature could be made speci- practical men of the cities, or men of mercantile (fic, is made specific. Nothing is placed in the business. And yet here, in the first year of their list of ad valorem duties but such as seem to be administration, fresh to the duties thrown upon incapable of assessment in any other form.-them, they come out with a recommendation of Well, sir, how do we stand, then? We have the a vast change; they propose a new system, adexperience of our own Government; we have verse to all our own experience, hostile to every (the judgment of those most distinguished in the thing that we have ever learned, different from administration of our affairs; we have the pro-the experience of every other country on the duction of proof, on this most important point, in face of the earth, and which stands solely on the (hundreds and hundreds of instances, of the dan-responsibility of their own individual opinions! ger of the ad valorem mode of assessing duties.-I do not think that this is a fair balance of auWhat is produced in its favor? Every importer thority; and since nobody here will uphold it, of the United States, without exception is against since nobody here will defend it, it is fair enough it. Sir, the Administratration has not a mercan- for me to say, with entire respect to the head of tile friend from here to Penobscot, so far as ap-the Government and the Department of the pears, that will come forward and give his opin-Treasury, that the preponderance of authority is ion in favor of this system. I undertake to say quite overwhelming the other way. there is not one. There may be members of the

VALUE OF FOREIGN COINS IN THE UNITED STATES.

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH THE VALUE OF CERTAIN FOREIGN COINS AND MONEYS OF ACCOUNT, AND TO AMEND EXISTING LAWS.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Con gress assembled, That, in all computation at the Custom-House, the foreign coins and money of account herein specified, shall be estimated as follows, to wit;

The specie dollar of Sweden and Norway, at $1.06.01 The lira of the Lombardo Venetian kingdom
The specie dollar of Denmark, at..

1.05.0

The thaler of Prussia and of the northern
States of Germany, at..

0.69.0

and the lira of Tuscany, at..
The franc of France and Belgium, and the
lira of Sardinia, at.....

01.6.0

0.18.0

The florin of the southern States of Germany,

at

0.40.0

The torin of the Austrian Empire and of the

The pound of the British provinces of Nova
Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland,
and Canada, at....,..

4.00.0

city of Augsburg, at.....

The Ducat of Naples, at...

0.48.5 And all laws inconsistent with this act, use here.............. 0.80.0 by repealed.

The ounce of Sicily, at...

TARIFF OF DUTIES,

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

SCHEDULE A....(100 Per Cent.)

Spirits and Liquors.

Absynthe, Arrack,

Kirschenwasser,
Maraschino,

Brandy, Liqueurs, Ratafia,

SCHEDULE I....(40 Per Cent.)

Alabaster, Almonds,
Anchovies,
Camphor, refined,
Comfits, Cloves, Cassia,
Composition tops for ta-
bles, &c.
Currants, Dates,
Figs, Furniture,
Game, sealed or encased,
Ginger root, dried or
green,

Glass, cut, Mace,
Meats, Nutmegs,
Ornaments, spar,
Pimento, Poultry,
Preserves, in sugar, mo-
lasses or brandy,
Prunes, Raisins,
(Sardines,

Scagliola Tops, or other
furniture of,
Segars, tobacco, paper,

&C.

Snuff, tobacco, all manu-
factures of, do
Sweetmeats,
Vegetables, prepared,
Wines of all kinds, and Do pebbles for spectacles
imitations of wines, Do painted or stained,
Wines, Burgundy, cham-Do paintings on,
paigne, claret, Madeira, Do porcelain
port, sherry, and all oth- Gold and silver wings,
er wines and imitations Grass, manufactures of,
of wines,
Hair pencils,

when set,
Muffs, Muskets.
Nuts,

Ochre and ochry earths,
dry or ground in oil
Oil cloth of all kinds
Oil volatile

Do essential
Do Olive in cask
Do do salad
Olives,

Pack-thread,

Painters' colors, dry, or ground in oil,

Palm leaf, manufactures
of,

Paper, and
tures of,
Paper boxes,
Do envelops,

manufac

Wood, manufactures of Harness, coach,
cedar, gravadilla, eho-Hat bodies of cotton,
ny, rosewood, 'satin-Hats, men's and child-Papier maché, manufac-

wood and mahogany,

SCHEDULE B....(30 Per Cent.)

ren's composed of straw
satin, chip, grass, palm
leaf, hair, whalebone,
willow, or other vege-

Alabatta,crude, wrought, | Carriages, and parts of table substances,

Ale in casks or bottles,
Apparel, made in whole
or in part,of all materials
Argentine,

Arms, fire and side arms,
Articles worn by men,wo-
men, or children, made
by hand,
Asses' skins,
Balsams,

Baskets,
Beads of all kinds,
Beer in cask or bottles,
Benzoates,
Benzoin, gum of
Bologna sausages,
Bone, manufactures of
Bonnets, of all sizes,
whether of straw, satin,
chip, grass, palm-leaf,
or other vegetable sub-

stances,

Books, pocket,
Boxes of paper,

Boxes, shell,

Bracelets,

Braids,

Braces,

Coal and culm of do,
Colors, water,
Composition
glass when set,
Confectionary,
Copper, manufactures of
Coral,

cut or manufac

Cork, manufactures of,
except corks,
Corks, Cosmetics,
Cotton cords,

Cotton, manufactures of,
Court plaster,
Crackers, fire,
Crayons,
Crockery ware,
Cutler Diamonds,
Drawers, wove, and all
frame stocking work,
Earthenware,
Embroideries of gold,
silver, or other metals,
Essences, Epaulettes,
Extracts,
Fans,
Feathers, Fire arms,
Fire crackers,

Do Wilton, &e. and Fire screens,

Horn, manufactures of
Household furniture,
Human hair, ready for
use,
India rubber shoes, in
whole or in part,

Ink powders,

Iron in bars,
Do blooms,

Do bolts,

Do castings,
Do hoops,

Do old or scrap,
Do pigs, rods, slabs,
Do vessels cast,
Ivory, manufactures of,
Japanned ware and
tations of,
Jellies,

imi-Precious stones,

Jet, manufactures of,
Do imitations of
Jewelry and imitations
of,

Knots, lace, &c.
Laces,
Lead pencils,
Lead, manufactures of,
Leather, manufactures of
Leggins,
Linen, manufactures of,
Maccaroni,
Marble paving tiles and
all manufactures of do
finished or unfinished
Medicinal preparations,
Metallic pens,
Metallic vessels,

Imitation do, or set in
_gold or silver,
Preparations, medicinal,
Prunes,

Red chalk pencils,
Rifles,

Ringlets of hair,

Rubies, set,
Rugs, hearth,
Ruin, bay,

Saddlery of all kinds,
Salmon, preserved,
Satin hats and bonnets,
Sausages, Bologna,
Sauces of all kinds,
Saxony carpets,
Sealing wax,
Sewing silk, in the gum,
or purified,
Shell boxes,

glass,

Wares ofbrass,iron, cop-
per, pewter, silver, tin,
and all other metals,
Water colors,

Animal Carbon,

Aniseed,

regulus, Arrow root,

Antimony, crude and Dutch metal or bronze,

Articles for dyeing or
tanning not in a crude
state,
Asafetida,
Bananas,

Bacon,
Barks,

of

Barley, pure or hulled,
Barytes, sulphate
crude or refined,
Beef, Beeswax,
Benzoic acid,
Berries,
Berries, juniper
Bichromate of potash,
Bismuth,
Bitter apples,

Stars silver or gold li- Wearing apparel of all Bituminous substances, kinds and materials, not otherwise enumerafinished and unfinished. ted,

nings, &c. Stone ware,

Straw hats, caps, and
bonnets,

Straw, manufactures of,
Sugar of all kinds,

Sunshades, finished or
unfinished,

Suspenders,

Syrup of sugar,
Table tops,
Tassels,

Tin, manufactures of
Tinctures,
Tippets of fur,
Tobacco, unmanufac-
tured,

Toys,

Baizes,

Tresses,

Webbing of India-rub-Blank Books, bound and
ber, in part or whole, unbound,
Whalebone, manufac- Blankets of all kinds,
tures of
Blue, fig, black, bone or

Willow hats or bonnets, ivory,
Willow, manufactures of Blue or Roman Vitriol,
Willow squares,
Blue, Prussian
Wood, manufactures of, Boards,
or of which wood is a Boucho Leaves,

component part,
Wood, fire.
Wood, unmanufactured
Wool,
do
Wool, manufactures of
Woolen manufactures,
Worsted, manufactr's of

SCHEDULE C....(25 Per Cent.)

Beds, feather, down, hair, or hair cloth,

in leaf,

Dyeing articles, not in a?
crude state,
Dye-woods,
Ebony wood,
Emery, Ether,
Extracts of indigo, log-
wood, liquorice,
Felspar, Fig blue,
Fish, foreign, fresh,
smoked, salted, chois,
Fish glue or isinglass,
Flax, manufactures of,
Flour of wheat,
Flour-sulphur,
Flowers,
Frankfort black,
French chalk,
Fruit, green or ripe,
Fulminates,
Fulminating powders,
Furs, dressed on the
skin,
Gamboge,

Glass, window, broad,
crown or cylinder,
Glue,

Granadilla wood,

Gloves,

Boracic, do

Green turtle,

Bricks,paving or roofing,
Brimstone, roll,
Bronze liquor,
Bronze metal, in leaf,
Bronze Powder,
Bunks,

Butter,
Cadmium, . Calamine,
Candles, spermaceti, ste-
arine, tallow, wax, or
tapers,
Cantharides,

Caps,

Carbonate soda,

Grass, Sisal and grass Cassia buds,

mats,

Hair-cloth,

Hair, goat's, manufac-
tures of

Hair seating,

Jute and jute mats,

Castor oil,

Castorum,

Cedar wood,

Cemeut, Roman
Chalk, French
Chalk, red

Mats, or matting, Chi-Chocolate,
nese, of flags, jute, or Chromate lead,
grass,

66 potash,

Mercurial preparations Chromic acid,
of all kinds,

Mohair, manufactures of
or of which goat's hair
or mohair is a compo
nent part,

Silk, manufactures of
or of which silk shall
form a component part,
Siks, Sisal grass,
Slates, roofing,

Do other than roofing,
Woolen and worsted
yarns,

Citric do
Cloth, gunny
Cobalt,
Cocculus indicus,
Cocoa nuts,
Copperas, or green
riol,
Copper rops, bolts, nails
spikes, bottoms, in
sheets or plates,
"called braziers' cop-
per,
Copper, sulphate of

Green vitriol,

Hams,

Gunny cloth,
Gunpowder,
Hair curled,
Hats, of wool,
Hat bodies of wool, er)
composed in part of)
wool,

Hatters' plush (silk or
cotton,)

Hemp, manufactures of,
Hempseed,

Hempseed oil,

Hydriodate of potash,
Indian corn and meal,
Indicus cocculus.

Indigo, extract of,
Ipecacuanha,
Iridium,

Iris, or orris root,
Iron liquor,
Iron, sulphate of
1singlass,

Ivory, or bone black,
Jalap,

Juniper berries,

Lac spirits,

Lac sulphur,
Lamp black.
Lard, Laths,

vit-Lead in pigs, bars, sheets,
pipes, shot, nitrate of,
red, white do,
Leather, tanned, bend or
sole leather, and upper(
of all kinds,

Worsted, manufactures Coral marine, unmanu-
of, or of which worsted factured,
forins a component part Corn, Indian

SCHEDULE D....(20 Per Cent.) Acids, Acetic, Acetous, Nitric, Benzoic, Boracic, Chrome, Citric, Muriatic, white or yellow,

66 meal, Cream of tartar,

Pyroligneous, Tartar-Cubebs,
ic, and all other kinds,
Aloes, Alum,
Amber, Ambergris,

Curled hair,
Drawers, wove or made
on frames of cotton,

Leaves, medicinal, not)
ctherwise provided for,
Leeches, Leggins,
Lemon peels,
Lemons, Limes,
Linens of all kinds,
Linseed oil,
Liquor bronze,
Do iron,
Liquorice paste, Juice or
root,

Paper screens or fire Squills, Starch,

F....

ed or used in building Engravings, bound or Lime,

Furs, undressed when Marrow and all other

THE NEW-TARIFF.

Polishing stones,
Pumice stone,
Rapeseed, Rattans,
Reeds, unmanufactured,
Rotten stone,
Rubies, or imitations of,
not set,

Sal ammonia,

not otherwise provided | sively for dyeing, un

for,
Tumeric,
Twist, silk or cloth, suita-
ble for the manufacture
of shoes, boots, boot-
ees, or buttons, exclu-
sively,

Saltpetre, refined or par-Vegetables used exclu-
tially refined,
Senegal gum,
Soup-grease,

or

stuff
stuffe, not otherwise
provided for,
Soda, ash
Starch, burnt or gum
Stones, building, burr,
rotten, precious and ali
imitations of, not set.
Sulphuric acid,
Tallow,

(Paste, compositions of, Terra-japonica,

Paim-leaf,

tured,

Palm oil,

Pamphlets,

not set,

Pastel or woad,

Pearls. not set,

1

Periodicals,

(Plates, engraving

SCHEDULE

Tragacanth,
Watches, parts of, mate-
rials, of all kinds not
otherwise provided for,
Woad or pastel,

G....(5 Per Cent.)
Nickel,

Alcornoque, Argol, or crude tariar, Belis when old, or bell metal fit only to be reanufactured, Berries used exclusively for dyeing, Berries, unmanufactured Bones, tips and teeth, unnanufactured, Frass in pigs or bars, Brass when old and fit only to be remanufactured, (Brazil wood, and all dyewood, in sticks, Bristles, Chalk, not otherwise provided for, Clay, unwrought Cloth, mohair, manufac tures of

Copper in pigs and bars, und when old and only fit to be remanufactured, Dyeing berries, nuts and vegetables, used exclusively for dyeing, Dy lac, Flints, (Galle, nut Grindstones, wrought or unwrought, Hides, raw, and skins of all kinds, dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for, Horus, and tips of, Ivory nuts or vegetable ivory dátto, Ivory, unmanufactured Kerus, Lac dye and lac spirits, (Lastings suitable for shoes, boots, or buttons exclusively, Madder root, Do ground,

Mohair cloth, manufactires of

manufactured, Waste or shoddy, Weld,

Zinc, spelter or tutenegue, unanufactured, not otherwise provided for.

SCHEDULE H....(Free.)

Animals imported for
breed,

Antiquities,collections of
Apparel in actual use,
Books, professional, not
merchandise or for sale,
Botanical specimens,
Bulbs,
Bullion,

Cabinets of coins,
Clothing ready made, in
actual use, not for mer-
chandise or sale,
Coffee, the growth of
Netherlands Posses-
sions imported in Amer-
ican vessels or vessels
under reciprocity treat-
ies, &c. [See Act,Sched-
notule H.]

Coins, gold, silver, or
copper,
Copper coins,
Copper imported for the
United States mint,
sheathing, 48 inc. long
by 14 inches wide, and
weighing from 14 to 34
ounces to the square
foot,
Copper ore,
Cotton,

Nitrate potash, crude
Do soda, crude,
otherwise provided
for,
Nutgalis,
Nuts, dyeing, used ex-
clusively for dyeing,
unmanufactured,
Pearl, mother of
Pewter, when old and
only fit to be remanu-
factured,
Potash, nitrate of, crude
do,
Rags, of whatever mate-
rial,
Raw hides, and skins of
all kinds, dried, salted
or pickled, not other-Gold,
wise provided for,
Root, madder, & ground,
Safflower,

Oil, spermaceti, whale,
and other products of
American fisheries,
Old junk,
Paintings, if imported as
objects of art and taste,
and not of merchandise,
or for sale,
Personal effects of citi-
zens of the U. S. dying
abroad,

Plants and roots not oth-
erwise provided for,
Plaster of Paris un-
ground,

Platina unmanufactured
Professional books,
Professional implements
or instruments,
Tools of trade, occupa-
tion, or employment, of)
persons arriving in the
United States, not to in-
clude machinery im-
ported for use in a man-
ufactory or for sale,

Felt sheathing, adhesive Roots, not otherwise Garden seeds and all provided for, other seeds not other-Sheathing, felt wise provided for, Guano, Household and personal effects of citizens of U. S. dying abroad, Saltpetre, crude Household effects, old, Seed lac,' Shellac, and in use, of persons Shells, unmanufactured or families, if used aSilk twist, or other manbroad and not intended factures of cloth suita- for sale on arriving in ble for manufacturing the United States, shoes, boots, Jolees, Junk, old or buttons, exclusively, Skins, raw, of all kinds, dried, salted, or pickled, not otherwise provided for,

Do copper in sheets 48) inc. long by 14 wide, and weighing from 14 to 34 oz. to the square foot, Sheathing metal, Silver, Specimens history, Do mineralogy, Do botany, Statuary, the productions of American artists residing abroad, Tools of trade, occupation, or employment, for use, not in a manufac-C turing establishment, or for sale, of persons arriving in the U. S. Tea, [See Act, Schedule H.J Trees, shrubs, bulbs, of, Trees, specimens [See Act, Schedule H. Whalebone, the produce of American ies, Wearing apparel, in ac tual use, not for merchandise or sale.

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