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Show Sf.vkraL importers petition congress to extend tho time at w hich to take bonded goods out of tho government warehouses from February 1st to ()o-tober ()o-tober 1st, 1H(H, and even' later. The original bill proposed November 1st, 18110, as the last day of withdrawal, and had it been adopted, as some of the manufacturers insisteil it should be, there would have been widespread ruin in consequence. Money is so tight that it would have been disastrous to withdraw with-draw many millions from circulation and lock them up in the treasury vaults in payment of duties. Before February 1st, 18U1. the situntion may be rcllevod. |