Tariff Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means...1908-09...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1909 |
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... timber in the United States no one would contend for the maintenance of a tariff on timber . If we are now on the verge of a timber famine , as many authorities , both practical and theoretical , concede , should we not take time by the ...
... timber in the United States no one would contend for the maintenance of a tariff on timber . If we are now on the verge of a timber famine , as many authorities , both practical and theoretical , concede , should we not take time by the ...
Página 2839
... timber by fire and natural causes . The total consumption of timber for lumber alone , in 1907 , was 40,256,154,000 feet , according to a bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor . Quoting Mr. Kellogg again : The ...
... timber by fire and natural causes . The total consumption of timber for lumber alone , in 1907 , was 40,256,154,000 feet , according to a bulletin issued by the Department of Commerce and Labor . Quoting Mr. Kellogg again : The ...
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... timber , they are receiving little or no protection , and even such young timber as exists is making but slight growth . Even if these cut - over lands be rightly managed they can not greatly increase their yield of merchantable timber ...
... timber , they are receiving little or no protection , and even such young timber as exists is making but slight growth . Even if these cut - over lands be rightly managed they can not greatly increase their yield of merchantable timber ...
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... timber is difficult to realize , especially since in times past the supply has been so ample that we have become accustomed to lavish use . Without hard wood for build- ing purposes , for the manufacture of furniture , for railroad ties ...
... timber is difficult to realize , especially since in times past the supply has been so ample that we have become accustomed to lavish use . Without hard wood for build- ing purposes , for the manufacture of furniture , for railroad ties ...
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... timber long before our supplies are com- pletely exhausted . It is well to remember that there is no foreign source from which we can draw cheap and abundant supplies of timber to meet a demand per capita so large as to be without ...
... timber long before our supplies are com- pletely exhausted . It is well to remember that there is no foreign source from which we can draw cheap and abundant supplies of timber to meet a demand per capita so large as to be without ...
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14 cents 45 per cent abroad aluminum American manufacturers amount automobiles average bismuth BONYNGE BOUTELL British Columbia BRUSH bullion calamine calks Canada Canadian cars cent ad valorem cents a pound cents per pound CHAIRMAN CLARK COCKRAN Coeur d'Alene Company competition consumer copper CRUMPACKER DALZELL difference Dingley tariff export fact factory facturers figures files FORDNEY foreign forests freight Georgian Bay Germany GOODYEAR grades GRIGGS HILL HINES IHLSENG imported increase industry Joplin district KNAPPEN labor cost land lumber lumbermen machine machinery manu material metal Mexican Mexico mica mills miner mines Missouri NIBLEY NICHOLSON November 25 paragraph pig lead pine present duty present tariff profit protection question RANDELL reduced respectfully SCANLON sell SERENO E SHERRILL short tons silver smelters smelting sold statement stumpage supply thousand timber tion to-day tons trade UNDERWOOD United Washington Weyerhaeuser WHITE York zinc
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Página 2754 - Manufactures, articles or wares, not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, composed wholly or in part of iron, steel, lead, copper, nickel, pewter, zinc, gold, silver, platinum, aluminum, or any other metal, and whether partly or wholly manufactured, forty-five per centum ad valorem.
Página 2263 - In all tariff legislation the true principle of protection is best maintained by the imposition of such duties as will equal the difference between the cost of production at home and abroad, together with a reasonable profit to American industries.
Página 2306 - ... tinsel wire, lame or lahn. five cents per pound and thirty-five per centum ad valorem; laces, embroideries, braids, galloons, trimmings, or other articles, made wholly or in chief value of tinsel wire, lame or lahn, bullions, or metal threads, sixty per centum ad valorem.
Página 2799 - Philosophical and scientific apparatus, utensils, instruments, and preparations. Including bottles and boxes containing the same, specially imported in good faith for the use and by order of any society or Institution Incorporated or established solely for religious, philosophical, educational, scientific, or literary purposes, or for the encouragement of the fine arts, or for the use and by order of any college, academy, school, or seminary of learning in the United States...
Página 2589 - Lead-bearing ore of all kinds, one and one-half cents per pound on the lead contained therein: Provided, That on all importations of lead-bearing ores the duties shall be estimated at the port of entry, and a bond given in double the amount of such estimated duties for the transportation of the ores by common carriers bonded for the transportation of appraised or unappraised merchandise to properly...
Página 2458 - Cotton thread and carded yarn, warps or warp yarn, in singles, whether on beams or in bundles, skeins, or cops, or in any other form, except spool thread of cotton, crochet, darning, and embroidery cottons, hereinafter provided for...
Página 2688 - We favor the establishment of maximum and minimum rates to be administered by the President under limitations fixed in the law, the maximum to be available to meet discriminations by foreign countries against American goods entering their markets, and the minimum to represent the normal measure of protection at home...
Página 2698 - ... the actual market value or wholesale price of such merchandise as bought and sold in usual wholesale quantities, at the time of exportation to the United States...
Página 2613 - ... bonded warehouses or otherwise. On the arrival of the ores at such establishments they shall be sampled according to commercial methods under the supervision of Government officers, who shall be stationed at such establishments, and who shall submit the samples thus obtained to a Government assayer...
Página 2846 - What will happen when the forests fail? In the first place, the business of lumbering will disappear. It is now the fourth greatest industry in the United States. All forms of building industries will suffer with it, and the occupants of houses, offices, and stores must pay the added cost. Mining will become vastly more expensive: and with the rise In the cost of mining there must follow a corresponding rise in the price of coal, iron, and other minerals. The railways, which have as yet failed entirely...