This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most in...
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 ...
I withhold my approval from this bill, therefore, for the reasons, first, because it should not be considered until the Tariff Board shall m...
Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other f...
This would impose a heavy burden on the administrative branch of the Government, create disastrous uncertainty in commercial circles, and le...
The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Treasury Department to...
The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are not covered by its ...
The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the f...
Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to ...
Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.
I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between the cost of production...