Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-04-05
CURIOUS RECORD Of
TARIFF MAKING IS.
BEFORE CONGRESS.
MANY A FORGOTTON MEASURE
OF Tariff HAVE 81 E N
BROUGHT TO LIGHT FOR NEW
ADMINISTRATION

Washington, April 5,s-Many mus
ty oddly of forgotten tarin statute
has turned up by IA search ui tn
capitol archives, This mas disclose
that thl. first congress hssemble9 IN
der the Constitution faced the SAME
prcliCn. AZ will the sixty seSentl
When II meets q Nle% hence lat q
eaattng a tariff INV
Tho first tariff act was passed Oh
July 4, 1889. Its formal title state
ment Of purpose-"ior laying duly
on goods. wares and merchandise IN
ported into the United States car
rind bluntness which statesmen iul
the next hundred Yeas were 10
avoid
III H. necessary for the support OF
the government this frs. congress
said FOR the discharge OF debts OF
the Iilted States and To- he c,icaUr
ag mcnt and protection Of ;naIatac.
tl;lag that duty be laid upDl goo Is
wares and merchandise .GYcrtod.'
II vas Just 100 years. .ha compta-
f1rRali statement of purpose about
encouraging and protecting rIanIlic-
tdreI would be made again in al
important tax statute, though the Iu'-
pose V as most evidently heaI,i most
Of tie scores OF following acts, 50
snnpo was the first bin that il 70
CuneG only two pages OF ths commit
tee pint against mere than 100 fol
tEu IGyne-Aldrich act q. 1903.
Too simple, it probably was, for +
year later, in August, 1870, congress
passed An act making further pro.
yisi n for the payment Of debts Of
the United States"
More deity the purpose Of the next
tariff bill as it passed on March .
1892. was stated to be for the rails
ink Of farther sums Of money for the
protection of frontiers" evading any
rem erks abour p lection of indus
tries Its duties We're increasts, ard
one duty imposed was on coal per
bushe, four and onc.half cents
Two years later the famous Trip
oil troubles arose and congress, on
tect the commerce and seanen Of the
United States against the Barbary
powers" This act slapped on 4 gen
eral increase of 2Ia and 10 per cent
ad valorem duties The statute stat.
ed itself to be temporary, for one
year, but the title proved to be too
good to be wasted. Year by year, af
ter. clear up to 1913, congress reiter.
ated its laldable purposes, re-enacted
its increased schedules and announc-
ed it was going after the Barbary pi-
rates with a continuation OF the tar.
if for another twelve months.
In 1913, however, the nation went
to war with Great Britain and in a
hasty and brief paragraph OF statute
congress announced IAN additional
duty of 100 per cent on all perman.
ent duties to be collected for the du-
ration Of hOstilities. The tax on i'm.
ported salt, incidentally, got up to-
20 cents pound.
This was about the end OF the ear
ly tariff era according to the cOmpil-
alton. For the next forty years most
OF the acts We're labelled 10 reduce
d,tiae Tbie tbev ,lainI,, dia FOR
~ s,tt +a,, moe ,,ola1 - "a o,.l
hrrLrl ca,,,,n,'i,,, n.y., t,.,,i.e,,t
aract,ra,,t, 40 roloaaa sra,, a,t,,
i,,aa - fo,, -, ;, r ~
like
pro,i,o,t;,, ,,ooto,,,,,i,,. .,a,,,.,
scra5,,lae nUan f,,rttn. D,a la.o1
rah~,,ar,. oz toES notoa 10. u,,aa
eole a,d evbion+s - IL. NAN, no
.'l,, 20 80 VI 80 ''''
! Nor c,,e,o,,,. ,,a,o, hoaa,,sl, 80
,,,.ooj,v ,,ir, ~ liz, o. ~ ,,aa
a-,a,,,od
p,t tbo ta,ter c,,,o h,,I u..., A.
hocinnira - ~, Gi,n ~ w. IVA r ,','
gross an \Iarch . 1Qf1 nassoa an
''oct +o nrnvida snr ,a,,,,pnt ~ o',t
stonaino ,roo',,,D,, ,lta,.. :.
.a,nInos"a If o. moe ~ +orttr ,ohaa
ulos mi loneth ,arosha4a,,.,, nv
,,odar,, ara ''' '''''''N' " :" ''''
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a 1eco - 0 a, va Iu5
,,a,,aa e,,, at ,,''- va - l'nu
,ho dntia" ~, ,,nn,,D '9'"s ,r te'iipoi ~
inc ua, onaot,,r,.o ,,,t- :. >.'',
gressional tax layipr yoc,hnl,,,,
With the end of the civil War