Word: tariff
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Tariff rates rather than internal taxes should be dimished, for (a) protective duties are a burdensome form of taxation.- Report of Secretary Treasurer, 1887, xxxi-xxxiii; Report of Mr. Mills, printed on pages 100-117 of Senate Report on the Mills Bill; idem, pp. 91-101 and 120-189. (b) Luxuries rather then necessaries should be taxed: President's Message, with annotations by R. R. Bower, pp. 11-13; Economists in General...
...impracticable to separate for taxation alcohol used in the arts.- Sherman in Cong. Record, 1888; Oct, 4, page 10,054; Cockrell in Cong. Record, Oct. 17; Views of James B. Beck, in the Report on the Senate Tariff Bill, page...
...Report on the Senate Tariff bill of 1888, referred to above...
...Tariff Reform meeting was held last evening in Tremont Temple. The hall was closely packed; the audience consisting largely of ladies, Harvard graduates and students. At precisely eight o'clock the doors behind the stage opened, and amid deafening cheers the procession of speakers vice-presidents and executive committee marched on to the stage, the Cadet Band playing "Fair Harvard." It was some time before the applause subsided, and Mr. G. R. Nutter introduced the presiding officer, Colonel Charles R. Codman, who received an enthusiastic Harvard cheer. Colonel Codman said that in 1860 it was the young...
...Harvey N. Shepard, Mr. E. L. Smith, of the Law School and Mr. Sherman Hoar, made telling addresses. The meeting broke up shortly before eleven o'clock. On the whole the affair was a decided success and the tariff reform association may be well satisfied with the result...