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Wanted - A general club table at Mrs. Bucknell's, 66 Mt. Auburn street...
...general table can be accommodated at Miss E. M. Cotter's, 10 Oxford street...
...hear Mr. Taussig's last lecture on "Tariff Legislation." The preceding lectures have taken up and described the legislation prior to the war of 1861, and it was with the act passed in this year that Mr. Taussig began. The act of 1857 had so far reduced duties in general that temporary loans had to be made, and this fact gave rise to the preparation of the Morrill bill in 1861. The object of the bill was to cause duties to return to what they were in 1846, and it was intended to be protective. Its distinguishing feature...
...government was pressed for money, and a general system of internal taxation was determined upon and put into action by the bill of this year. Mr. Morrill, in order to compensate for this tax upon the people, proposed a bill, which was passed, raising the tariff rate. Two years later the great "Tariff Act of 1864" was passed, which is said to be the largest financial transaction in the world's history. Internal taxes were considerably raised, and tariff duties were made much larger than ever before...
...close of the war internal taxation began to be considerably lessened, and has by this time practically ceased altogether. The general feeling was that a reduction in tariff duties should also be made, and Mr. David Wells introduced such a bill. The Senate favored his scheme, but the bill was killed in the House...