What shall those men do? The law requires a certificate of every entry and every invoice. What shall the emigrants do coming from Canada. as they come to the number of five or six thousand a year to thatpoint? Shall they send to Niagara? Shall theysend to Toronto? For they most have consular certificates before they can bring their goods into the United States. What is the economy which shall destroy a consulate upon one of the great highways of emigration to this sountry I What kind of benefit is it to the Government of the United States to destroy a constlate which furnishes in fees. I will venture to say. more than treble the salary of the consul t And if this be so in a case within my own knowledge. how may it be in other cases? And what can he the economy of discontinuing these consulates? We make large charges onm emigrants and consignors of goods for the certificate of the consul. and from Canada many of the goods that come by the Saint Lawrence to Chicago. to Saint Louis. to Cincinnati. to Milwaukee. to Detroit. to almost all our western and northwestern cities. come by way of Detroit and by way of Port Huron. entered under the consular certificate. and passed in bond in transportation to these cities. and the duties assessed and paid when they arrive at their destination. Now you have removed the only means by which these consular certificates which must be given at the last port of departure. which is Windsor in this case. You propose to legislate out of office the only officer who can give his certificate of at least onehalf of the importations that come by the way of the Saint Lawrence to all of the cities of the West and of the Northwest. and I here speak of this so that gentlemen may remember when they hear complaints from merchants and emigrants. from the press and the people. they will remember that I have protested and do protest against any reduction of consulates that are so very necessary. and with this reduction. if there were no other objections to the bill as proposed to be enacted by the conference committee I should feel compelled from a sense of duty to oppose the report of the committee. and to vote against it. and to prevent its passage as far as it may ho in my power.
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