¶ For three hours the Senate debated behind closed doors. Then a vote was taken61 to 7, in favor of the treaty which will permit British ships to bring liquor into American ports under seal in exchange for which American officers may seize British rum smugglers within an hour's sail of our coast.
¶ Sir Broderick Hartwell, Briton, who has been offering his countrymen 20 per cent profit every. 60 days in his project of bringing rum to America, was outdone by a Scotsman, one Nicholson, who offered 25 per cent re-turn for...
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