Editing Morrill Tariff (section)

===Senate action===
The Morrill bill was sent on to the [[US Senate]]. However, the Senate was controlled by Democrats and so it was bottled up in the Finance Committee, chaired by [[Robert M. T. Hunter]] of [[Virginia]].

That ensured that the Senate vote would be put off until the second session in December 1860 and meant that the tariff would be a prominent issue in the [[U.S. presidential election, 1860|1860 election]].<ref>Allan Nevins, ''Ordeal of the Union; Vol. IV: The Emergence of Lincoln: Prologue to Civil War, 1859–1861'' (1950).</ref>