Papers Of Abraham Lincoln

THIRTIETH CONGRESS—FIRST SESSION.
H. R. 36.
(Report No. 810.)
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
July 25, 1848.
Read twice, and committed to a Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Mr. Chapman, from the select committee upon that subject, reported the following joint resolution:
JOINT RESOLUTION
Concerning the tobacco trade with Europe.

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12 Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre-
sentatives of the United States of America in Congress
assembled, That the President be requested to give
special instructions to the ministers and representatives
of this government at the courts of Great Britain,
France, Prussia, at Stockholm, Denmark, Portugal,
Spain, Sardinia, the Pontifical States, Naples, and Aus-
tria to press upon the attention of the governments to
which they are accredited the justice and propriety of so
modifying their restrictions, and diminishing the duties
levied by them, respectively, on American tobacco, as to
approximate to a standard of reciprocity with the duties

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23 levied by this government upon the manufactures and
productions of those countries imported into this country,
and that the President be requested to instruct our said
ministers and representatives, especially to communicate
to the governments to which they are accredited, that the
government of the United States will feel itself impelled,
by every consideration of duty to the tobacco interest of
the country, to resort to a system of countervailing and
discriminating duties, if a longer adherence to monopolies
and exorbitant duties and exactions, on the part of those
governments, shall make it necessary.

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H.R. J. R. 36

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12	Resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be requested to give special instructions to the ministers and representatives of this government at the courts of Great Britain, France, Prussia, at Stockholm, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Sardinia, the Pontifical States, Naples, and Aus- tria to press upon the attention of the governments to which they are accredited the justice and propriety of so modifying their restrictions, and diminishing the duties levied by them, respectively, on American tobacco, as to approximate to a standard of reciprocity with the duties
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23	levied by this government upon the manufactures and productions of those countries imported into this country, and that the President be requested to instruct our said ministers and representatives, especially to communicate to the governments to which they are accredited, that the government of the United States will feel itself impelled, by every consideration of duty to the tobacco interest of the country, to resort to a system of countervailing and discriminating duties, if a longer adherence to monopolies and exorbitant duties and exactions, on the part of those governments, shall make it necessary.