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The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6, 36 Stat. 11), named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R–NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R–RI), began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, law passed in 1909 in response to a call from U.S. President William Howard Taft for a reduction in tariff rates. The bill, sponsored by Sereno Payne in the House and Nelson Aldrich in the Senate, only slightly lowered rates.
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909, passed by the U.S. Congress. It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897; the issue had been ignored by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Republican platform of 1908 pledged revision of the tariff downward, and to this end President Taft called (1909) Congress into special session.
Nov 21, 2023 · The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act was an act that combined the Payne Proposal (in which Sereno Payne and other progressive Republicans fought for lower tariff rates) and the Aldrich Proposal...
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Sereno E. Payne, a Republican congressman from New York, sponsored a tariff bill that called for several reduced rates, which the House swiftly passed. The Senate responded with a bill authored by Nelson W. Aldrich, a Republican multi-millionaire from Rhode Island, that effected fewer
Jun 25, 2024 · Tariff of 1909 (Payne-Aldrich Tariff), also known as An Act to Provide Revenue, Equalize Duties and Encourage the Industries of the United States, and for Other Purposes; Payne-Aldrich Act; Public Law 61-5, 61st Congress, H.R. 1438 by United States.
Wilson (1909, 538) criticized the Payne- Aldrich tariff as “miscella-neously wrong in detail and radically wrong in principle.” He attacked the so- called “jokers” in the tariff bills, “clauses whose meaning did not lie upon the surface, whose language was meant not to disclose its meaning.”
Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909, passed by the U.S. Congress. It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897; the issue had been ignored by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Republican platform of 1908 pledged revision of the tariff.
The Ways and Means Committee of the House, with Mr. Payne at its head, spent a full year in an investigation, assembling evidence in reference to the rates under the tariff, and devoted an immense amount of work in the study of the question where the tariff rates could be reduced and where they ought to be raised with a view to maintaining a ...
