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      • Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1909 in response to a call from Republican Pres. William Howard Taft for lower tariffs. His acceptance of a bill that failed to significantly decrease rates caused him to lose the support of the progressive wing of his party.
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  2. The PayneAldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6, 36 Stat. 11), named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R– NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (RRI ), began in the United States House of Representatives as a bill raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States.

  3. Jul 1, 2014 · Summary and Definition: The Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act was essentially a compromise between the proposals of New York Representative Sereno E. Payne and Rhode Island Senator Nelson W. Aldrich. The Payne proposal, supported by President Taft and the Progressives, was designed to lower tariff rates.

  4. Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, 1909, passed by the U.S. Congress. It was the first change in tariff laws since the Dingley Act of 1897; the issue had been ignored by President Theodore Roosevelt. The Republican platform of 1908 pledged revision of the tariff downward, and to this end President Taft called (1909) Congress into special session.

  5. Nov 21, 2023 · The Payne-Aldrich Tariff was a compromise over tariff rates between New York Representative Sereno Payne and Rhode Island Senator Nelson Aldrich. A tariff is...

  6. In the struggle over the tariff, Senator Nelson Aldrich of Rhode Island and Representative Sereno E. Payne of New York, representing big business, succeeded in pushing through a tariff (the Payne-Aldrich Tariff) that affected only modest reductions.

  7. so- called “jokers” in the tariff bills, “clauses whose meaning did not lie upon the surface, whose language was meant not to disclose its meaning.” For example, the Payne- Aldrich legislation changed the tariff on imports of electric carbons from ninety cents per hundred weight to seventy cents

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