Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4930U.S. Government Printing Office, 1906 - United States Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... average production of sugar in the Philippines for the last several years ? Mr. PEABODY . During the war the production fell off by the rea- son of the running out of the cane fields , and since the occupation by the Americans it has ...
... average production of sugar in the Philippines for the last several years ? Mr. PEABODY . During the war the production fell off by the rea- son of the running out of the cane fields , and since the occupation by the Americans it has ...
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... average of the whole crop from the statistics I have seen is about four and nine - tenths tons to the acre for the crop ; the yield varies very much on different plantations . Senator LONG . Those are long tons , are they not ? Mr ...
... average of the whole crop from the statistics I have seen is about four and nine - tenths tons to the acre for the crop ; the yield varies very much on different plantations . Senator LONG . Those are long tons , are they not ? Mr ...
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... average for that plantation - 8 or 9 tons ? Mr. HATCH . I so understand it , but the cane is in the ground more than ... average ? Mr. HATCH . I do not know what the average cost is in any other way than this , that in the past three ...
... average for that plantation - 8 or 9 tons ? Mr. HATCH . I so understand it , but the cane is in the ground more than ... average ? Mr. HATCH . I do not know what the average cost is in any other way than this , that in the past three ...
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... average laborer in the field ? General WRIGHT . It is difficult to average wages . There again you get into confusion . Senator BRANDEGEE . What would be high wages for the tobacco laborer in the field ? General WRIGHT . I should say ...
... average laborer in the field ? General WRIGHT . It is difficult to average wages . There again you get into confusion . Senator BRANDEGEE . What would be high wages for the tobacco laborer in the field ? General WRIGHT . I should say ...
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... average plantation is 60 acres ; 25 cultivated is the average size . General WRIGHT . The people who are engaged in it , as a rule , are not large planters . There are a great many people of moderate cir- cumstances engaged in raising ...
... average plantation is 60 acres ; 25 cultivated is the average size . General WRIGHT . The people who are engaged in it , as a rule , are not large planters . There are a great many people of moderate cir- cumstances engaged in raising ...
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Page 2 - That on and after the day when this Act shall go into effect all goods, wares, and merchandise previously imported, for which no entry has been made, and all goods, wares, and merchandise previously entered without payment of duty and under bond for warehousing, transportation, or any other purpose, for which no permit of delivery to the importer or his agent has been issued...
Page 2 - States shall be exempt from the payment of any tax imposed by the internal-revenue laws of the United States...
Page 20 - However, the managers of the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, and the Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China...
Page 2 - ... importer or his agent has been issued, shall be subjected to the duties imposed by this Act and to no other duty, upon the entry or the withdrawal thereof: Provided, That when duties are based upon the weight of merchandise deposited in any public or private bonded warehouse, said duties shall be levied and collected upon the weight of such merchandise at the time of its entry. SEC. 34. That sections one to twenty-four, both inclusive, of an Act entitled "An Act to reduce taxation, to provide...
Page 104 - That in consideration of the exemptions aforesaid all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture of the United States, upon which no drawback of customs duties has been allowed therein, shall be admitted to the Philippine Islands from the United States free of duty...
Page 1 - Islands a tax equal to the internal-revenue tax imposed in the United States upon the like articles, goods, wares, or merchandise of domestic manufacture...
Page 1 - That all articles, the growth, product, or manufacture, as hereinbefore defined, of the Philippine Islands, admitted into the ports of the United States free of duty under the provisions of this...
Page 465 - With the permission of the committee I would like to insert in the record the best information we can gather in a reasonable time in response to Mr.
Page 881 - We condemn the present Administration for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country; the Republican party favors such protection as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American people use and for which they pay other countries more than $100,000ooo annually.
Page 1 - An Act temporarily to provide revenue for the Philippine Islands, and for other purposes, approved March eighth, nineteen hundred and two.