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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.
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... 1909: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act; 1913: Revenue Act of 1913 (Underwood Tariff)
The CCPA began as the United States Court of Customs Appeals, created by the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of August 5, 1909, and it started its work the following year, on April 22, 1910. Five judges for the new court were appointed by President Taft : Robert Morris Montgomery , William H. Hunt , James Francis Smith , Orion M. Barber and Marion ...
Aldrich outmaneuvered them by lowering the tariff on farm products, which outraged the farmers. The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act in 1910 ripped the Republicans apart and set up the realignment in favor of the Democrats. [90] Woodrow Wilson made a drastic lowering of tariff rates a major priority for his presidency.
Tariff Act can refer to the following: United States. Hamilton tariff (1789) Morrill Tariff (1861) Tariff of 1883; McKinley Tariff (1890) Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act (1894) Dingley Act (1897) Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) Revenue Act of 1913; Fordney–McCumber Tariff (1922) Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act (1930) Reciprocal Tariff Act (1934) Trade ...
Payne's bill passed the House in April 1909; when it reached the Senate, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Nelson W. Aldrich, attached numerous amendments that raised tariff rates. Aldrich's amendments outraged progressives such as Wisconsin's Robert M. La Follette, who strongly opposed the high rates of the Payne-Aldrich tariff ...
The tariff issue was pulling the GOP apart. Roosevelt tried to postpone the issue, but Taft had to meet it head on in 1909 with the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. Eastern conservatives led by Nelson W. Aldrich wanted high tariffs on manufactured goods (especially woolens), while Midwesterners called for low tariffs. Aldrich outmaneuvered them by ...
August 5, 1909 – Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act, ch. 6, 36 Stat. 11 May 16, 1910: Federal Mines Safety Act of 1910, ch. 240, 36 Stat. 369-b June 1, 1910: Height of ...