Col. George C. Tichenor´s Views on Revisions of the Tariff and Customs Laws (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Col. George C. Tichenor´s Views on Revisions of the Tariff and Customs Laws He served as postmaster of Des Moines for two terms, 1867-1874. As chairman of the Republican State Committee of Iowa, he was largely instrumental in the defeat of United States Senator Harlan and in electing William B. Allison as his successor. In 1874 he moved to Chicago, Illinois, where he became prominent in the grain business. Losing almost his entire fortune in the panic of 1877, he was appointed by his friend, Honorable John Sherman, Secretary of the Treasury, to the position of a special agent of that Department, representing the Secretary in many semi-confidential matters. Believing that the tariff was the most important national and international question affecting our industries and the people generally, he early set out to familiarize himself as much as possible with this subject. In 1881 he was sent abroad, with instructions from the Secretary of the Treasury to "investigate generally the subjects of undervaluation of articles exported from Europe to the United States, the costs of production of such articles in Europe, etc." He carried from the Secretary of State, Honorable James G. Blaine, a general letter of instruction to our consular officers abroad, to "afford him such facilities and assistance as may be proper to promote the object of his mission." He remained abroad most of the time for the following four years, devoting his time to the investigations as directed, and to study of the tariffs and customs administration of foreign nations. As a result of his investigations and reports to the Treasury Department during that period, many of the most flagrant undervaluations of imported articles were discovered and remedied, especially in silks, velvets, gloves, china, and other articles subject to high ad valorem duties. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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