The Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 (ch. 6, 36 Stat. 11), named for Representative Sereno E. Payne (R–NY) and Senator Nelson W. Aldrich (R–RI), began...

of the tariff, the rate averaged at around 47%. The Dingley Act remained in effect until the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909. McKinley Tariff Frank A...

system of tariffs that protected American factories and farms from foreign competition, and he was a cosponsor of the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act. He also...

tariffs. Aldrich outmaneuvered them by lowering the tariff on farm products, which outraged the farmers. The great battle over the high Payne–Aldrich...

Wilson–Gorman Tariff Act (1894) Dingley Act (1897) Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act (1909) Revenue Act of 1913 Fordney–McCumber Tariff (1922) Smoot–Hawley Tariff Act (1930)...

financial punishment. Aldrich baited them. Did the insurgents want lower tariffs? His wickedly clever Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 lowered the protection...

attempt to levy an income tax. In 1909, during the debate over the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act, Congress proposed the Sixteenth Amendment to the states. Though...

Roosevelt's Square Deal domestic agenda, he stumbled badly during the Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act debate and the Pinchot–Ballinger controversy. The political fallout...

Dingley Tariff 1909: Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act 1913: Revenue Act of 1913 (Underwood Tariff) 1921: Emergency Tariff of 1921 1922: Fordney–McCumber Tariff 1930:...

to lower tariffs—a tax on imports—then a major source of governmental income. However he was out-maneuvered. The new Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 raised...