The Tariff History of the United States, a Series of Essays
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105 Nays .... 35 " " 59 " " • • • 94 If six of those New England members who voted yea, had voted nay, the bill would have failed. Niles, loc. cit. THE EARLY PROTECTIVE MOVEMENT. 99 much more conservative position than the House.'' But in 1828 the course of events in the Senate was in the main similar to that in the House. The bill was referred to the committee on manufactures, and was returned with amendments, of which the most important referred to the duty on molasses and to the duties on wo...ollen goods. The duty on molasses was to be reduced from 10 cents, the rate fixed by the House, to 7^ cents. The duties on woollen goods, in the bill as passed by the House, had been made specific, equivalent to 40 per cent, on minimum valuations of 50 cents, $1.00, $2.50, and $4.00. The Sen- ate committee's amendment made the duties ad valorem in form, to be assessed on the minimum valuation just mentioned. The rate was to be 40 per cent, for the first year ; thereafter, 45 per cent." ' The tariff of 1824 was much changed in the Senate from the shape in Ivhich it had been passed by the House.
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