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Resolved, "That the sugar provisions of the McKinley Bill are contrary to good public policy...
Best general references: Lindquist; Sugar and the Tariff (pphlet). The provisions of the McKinley Bill, sec. 235. Breckenridge in Cong...
...reduces the revenue $55,000,000; McKinley in Cong. Record 1890, XXI 5015. - a) This revenue is needed to carry on the government: - Boston Post passim, Pub. Opinion X, 197. - (b) Formerly the sugar duty was as light a burden upon the people as any other tariff tax: - Breckenridge as above. - (c) Other onerous taxes should have been abolished before this one: - Boatner in Cong...
...public policy. - (a) It is contrary to the spirit of the constitution: - T. H. Benton quoted in Cong. Rec., XXI, appnd. X, 391. Speech of S. M. Robertson in ditto. (b) It is a drain without limit on the national treasury. eg. beet sugar, sec. 235 of Bill. Even McKinley estimates $7000.000 expenditure the first year. (c) It is the protective spirit in its worst form...
Best general references: Cong. Rec. 1889-90; U. S. Depart. of Agriculture, Division of Chemistry, Bulletin, No. 's 27, 29, 30; Report of Mr. J. Wilson on "Sugar-Beet Culture;" McKinley in Cong. Rec. 1888-89. p. 5015; Amer. Econ'ist, VI; Hamilton...