Cannon
and his allies, however, held hearings, conducted by Representative Sereno Payne of New
York, and eventually engineered passage of a tariff bill. The Payne bill would lower
duties on importing raw materials, while retaining protectionist duties on importing
manufactured products.
This
Democratic cartoon, from Puck in February 17, 1909, shows the special privilege,
the tariff, saved from the abyss by the Republican congressional leaders.
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