Report: to Accompany Bill H.R. 9051, Volumes 1-2U.S. Government Printing Office, 1888 |
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... question which we have to solve is not the date when duties were established or the circumstances or promises under which they were levied , but , the desirability of protection being conceded , it is , what rates are proper and ...
... question which we have to solve is not the date when duties were established or the circumstances or promises under which they were levied , but , the desirability of protection being conceded , it is , what rates are proper and ...
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... are abso- lutely essential to the enforcement of the law and to the collection of the revenue derived from the distillation of spirits . These laws are re- spected and obeyed without question by nine - tenths of REVISION OF THE TARIFF . 43.
... are abso- lutely essential to the enforcement of the law and to the collection of the revenue derived from the distillation of spirits . These laws are re- spected and obeyed without question by nine - tenths of REVISION OF THE TARIFF . 43.
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United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. spected and obeyed without question by nine - tenths of our people , and in a large portion of our territory . The penalties , though severe , are only for wrong - doing , and it ...
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. spected and obeyed without question by nine - tenths of our people , and in a large portion of our territory . The penalties , though severe , are only for wrong - doing , and it ...
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... question now presented is not one of temporary taxation . The pretenses upon which high - tariff taxes are now demanded will be as strong fifty years hence as they are at present . It is no longer infant industries that are clamoring ...
... question now presented is not one of temporary taxation . The pretenses upon which high - tariff taxes are now demanded will be as strong fifty years hence as they are at present . It is no longer infant industries that are clamoring ...
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... question , Senator John F. Miller , Republican , from California , said : The average American manufacturer is interested generally in two things , namely , the highest protective tariff , and the cheapest labor . It is not difficult to ...
... question , Senator John F. Miller , Republican , from California , said : The average American manufacturer is interested generally in two things , namely , the highest protective tariff , and the cheapest labor . It is not difficult to ...
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Page 127 - Cloaks, dolmans, jackets, talmas, ulsters, or other outside garments for ladies' and children's apparel and goods of similar description, or used for like purposes...
Page 140 - To lay with one hand the power of the Government on the property of the citizen and with the other to bestow It upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Page 140 - If it be said that a benefit results to the local public of a town by establishing manufactures, the same may be said of any other business or pursuit which employs capital or labor. The merchant, the mechanic, the innkeeper, the banker, the builder, the steamboat owner are equally promoters of the public good, and equally deserving the aid of the citizens by forced contributions. No line can be drawn in favor of the manufacturer which would not open the coffers of the public treasury to the importunities...
Page 345 - ... made of silk, or of which silk is the component material of chief value, not specially provided for in this Act, and silk goods ornamented with beads or spangles, of whatever material composed, sixty per centum ad valorem...
Page 126 - And provided further, That no article made from iron or steel wire, or of which iron or steel wire is a component part of chief value, shall pay a less rate of duty than the iron or steel wire from which it is made...
Page 56 - ... resins, herbs, leaves, lichens, mosses, nuts, roots and stems, spices, vegetables, seeds (aromatic, not garden seeds), and seeds of morbid growth, weeds, woods used expressly for dyeing, and dried insects, any of the foregoing...
Page 143 - Our labor has earned it, and paid the price for it. It is so much added to the stock of national wealth. If the commodity were dollars, nobody would doubt the truth of this remark; and it is precisely as correct in its application to any other commodity as to silver.
Page 63 - That imported salt in bond may be used in curing fish taken by vessels licensed to engage in the fisheries, and in curing fish on the shores of the navigable waters of the United States...
Page 58 - ... old copper, fit only for remanufacture, clippings from new copper, and all composition metal of which copper is a component material of chief value not specially enumerated or provided for in this act...
Page 62 - Hair, human, bracelets, braids, chains, rings, curls, and ringlets, composed of hair, or of which hair is the component material of chief value, thirtyfive per centum ad valorem.