Scientific Tariff Making: A History of the Movement to Create a Tariff Commission

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Blanchard Press, 1913 - 326 páginas
 

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Página 271 - President; but their successors shall be appointed for terms of six years, except that any person chosen to fill a vacancy shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the Commissioner whom he shall succeed.
Página 271 - All of the expenses of the Commission, including all necessary expenses for transportation incurred by the Commissioners, or by their employees under their orders, in making any investigation, or upon official business in any other places than in the city of Washington, shall be allowed and paid on the presentation of itemized vouchers therefor approved by the chairman of the Commission.
Página 74 - To secure information to assist the President in the discharge of the duties imposed upon him by this section, and the officers of the Government in the administration of the customs laws, the President is hereby authorized to employ such persons as may be required.
Página 271 - No vacancy in the Commission shall impair the right of the remaining Commissioners to exercise all the powers of the Commission.
Página 271 - Any Commissioner may be removed by the President for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Página 273 - Sec. 3. That there is hereby appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, the sum of one million dollars, and for each fiscal year thereafter a sum not to exceed two million dollars for use in the examination, survey, and acquirement of lands located on the headwaters of navigable streams or those which are being or which may be developed for navigable...
Página 158 - To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Página 75 - SEC. 2. That each commissioner shall receive a salary of $10,000 a year, payable in the same manner as the salaries of the judges of the courts of the United States.
Página 327 - ... free from stone, where they are especially effective in destroying weeds and in leaving a shallow mulch. In the study of different tillage implements, there should be much cooperation among farmers and with the farm bureau. This is not a matter for exact, long-continued trials since the details vary so much from place to place and from time to time that general conclusions for a region or for all seasons cannot safely be made. The uniformity in tillage practices at the present time suggests that...
Página 82 - ... national well-being. There are two or three different methods by which it will be possible to provide such readjustment without any shock to the business world. My personal preference would be for action which should be taken only after preliminary inquiry by, and upon the findings of, a body of experts of such high character and ability that they could be trusted to deal with the subject purely from the standpoint of our business and industrial needs ; but of course Congress would have to determine...

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