Word: rep
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...duty on raw wool handicaps our woolen mills. (1) With it manufacturers cannot have their choice of wools.- Speech of Mr. Morse. H. of Rep., July 12. 1888; speech of Mr. Springer, H. of Rep., July 19, 1888. (2) The actual expense of producing woolens is, in general, excluding cost of raw wool cheaper in the United States than in Europe-Congressional Record XIX 6198-9. (3) Including the cost of raw wool however, the expense of producing woolens is cheaper in Europe than in the United States.- Ibid...
...Experience shows that American wool production is dependent upon a protective tariff-Conv. Rep, pp. 13-23, Wool Bulletin...
...have lost our former prestige on the ocean by natural causes; that position cannot be restored by the artificial means of subsidies.- Roach's View in Lynch's Rep.; Kelly, Question of Ships; Every Saturday...
VIII. There is no argument for a government post-office system which does not apply with equal force to a government telegraph system.- Nation, 37, p. 90; Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements," p. 66; Jevons, Methods of Social Reform...
...Telegraph operatives are skilled workmen who cannot safely be removed. Hence the proposed system would be a valuable model of a nonpartisan civil service.- Sen. Rep., 48th Cong., "Statements...