REVENUE FROM BRANDY.
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In the schedule recently transmitted to the
House of Representatives by the Secretary Of
the Treasury, he recommends that the duty
on brandy and other spirits distilled from
grain. be increased from rs per cent, as pro-
posed by the tariff bill OF the Committee of
Ways and Means, to l25 per cent-increase,
fifty per cent. The estimated amount Of rev.
enue from this source is $702,6S7. The OBJ
ject of the majority in Congress and the ad-
ministrallon, in reducing the tariff act of l842,
is to increase the revenue. The tariff act ol
l842 imposes on these poisons an ad valorenl
duty Of l8O per cent, and, consequently, shuts
out, to a great extent, the importation. We
must, then, come to this conclusion; for the
sake Of few thousands of dollars, we mus
have more liquor brought into the country
and while the Government is strengthened
with money, an inducement must be Offered
to the people to become weakened in constitu
ton!