But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the finished product is made free from duty, and the raw material and the machinery necessary for its production are kept on the dutiable list.
Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Removing All Duties on Articles in the Metal,...
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The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.
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The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
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