Mr. VAN BUREN considered the object of the bill clearly to be immediately directed to the protection of manufactures: therefore, the reference to the Committee on Manufactures seemed to be proper. Afterwards, it would be also proper to refer it to the Committee on Finance, who would report on the question, whether the state of the revenue, or the effect upon it of this bill, would allow the adoption of the measure. He knew that the tariff bill of 1824 should have gone to the Finance Committee, and did not; still, he thought it no good reason why this bill should not now go to the Committee on Manufactures first, and to that on Finance hereafter.

The question was taken by yeas and nays, and decided in favor of a reference to the Committee on Manufactures, 25 to 21.