Congressional Serial Set, Issue 4153U.S. Government Printing Office, 1901 Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. |
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... cent customs tax , which amounted to $ 8.224,381 gold the previous year . Customs taxes in gold being collected in paper at 44 cents , the Executive has had to buy coin for its gold pay- ments at a higher price , so the decrease has ...
... cent customs tax , which amounted to $ 8.224,381 gold the previous year . Customs taxes in gold being collected in paper at 44 cents , the Executive has had to buy coin for its gold pay- ments at a higher price , so the decrease has ...
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... cent debt having risen from 544 to 68 , and the 5 per cent to 98 . " The conversion law has been accomplished , except as to the sale of the Andine Railway and of the gold mortgage bonds , which have been deferred to a more favorable ...
... cent debt having risen from 544 to 68 , and the 5 per cent to 98 . " The conversion law has been accomplished , except as to the sale of the Andine Railway and of the gold mortgage bonds , which have been deferred to a more favorable ...
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... cent . No. 415. Shawls , large and small , of wool , single or double , for the neck , with fringes , embroidered , and with parts of silk , 35 instead of 25 per cent . Under the head of mixed tissues , the following note has been added ...
... cent . No. 415. Shawls , large and small , of wool , single or double , for the neck , with fringes , embroidered , and with parts of silk , 35 instead of 25 per cent . Under the head of mixed tissues , the following note has been added ...
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... cent in cash on the amounts of their respective holdings instead of , as hereto- fore , £ 3 per cent in Government bonds . NARROW - GAUGE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION . The construction of a new narrow - gauge railway line ( known as the ...
... cent in cash on the amounts of their respective holdings instead of , as hereto- fore , £ 3 per cent in Government bonds . NARROW - GAUGE RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION . The construction of a new narrow - gauge railway line ( known as the ...
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... cents ( silver ) per gross kilogram ( 2.2046 pounds ) is levied . The poorer classes have heretofore used the ... cent per pound . Estimates agree quite uniformly that the yield of sugar from Mexican cane is from 140 to 150 pounds ...
... cents ( silver ) per gross kilogram ( 2.2046 pounds ) is levied . The poorer classes have heretofore used the ... cent per pound . Estimates agree quite uniformly that the yield of sugar from Mexican cane is from 140 to 150 pounds ...
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Page 502 - The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times ; measures of retaliation are not...
Page 502 - Our capacity to produce has developed so enormously, and our products have so multiplied that the problem of more markets requires our urgent and immediate attention.
Page 502 - In the furtherance of these objects of national interest and concern you are performing an important part. This exposition would have touched the heart of that American statesman whose mind was ever alert and thought ever constant for a larger commerce and a truer fraternity of the republics of the New World. His broad American spirit is felt and manifested here. He needs no identification to an assemblage of Americans anywhere, for the name of Blaine is inseparably associated with the Pan-American...
Page 931 - Treasury shall also obtain, through all sources accessible, including State and municipal sanitary authorities throughout the United States, weekly reports of the sanitary condition of ports and places within the United States, and shall prepare, publish, and transmit to...
Page 502 - We must encourage our merchant marine. We must have more ships. They must be under the American flag, built and manned and owned by Americans. These will not only be profitable in a commercial sense; they will be messengers of peace and amity wherever they go.
Page 137 - Art. 40. — Los efectos de las declaraciones de nulidad y de caducidad, son que las invenciones ó perfeccionamientos que hayan sido objeto de la patente, caigan bajo el dominio público. En caso de renuncia, si ésta se hubiere hecho en parte, sólo quedará bajo el dominio público la parte á la cual se renuncia, subsistiendo la patente en cuanto á lo demás.
Page 133 - Los principios ó descubrimientos científicos mientras sean meramente especulativos y no se traduzcan en máquina, aparato, instrumento, procedimiento ú operación mecánica ó química, de carácter práctico industrial.
Page 501 - We have a vast and intricate business, built up through years of toil and struggle...
Page 502 - If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad? "Then, too, we have inadequate steamship service. New lines of steamers have already been put in commission between the Pacific coast ports of the United States and those on the western coasts of Mexico and Central and South America.
Page 504 - June 30, 1900, was 2.003 cents. For the preceding year it was 1.925 cents. The revenue per ton of freight per mile was 0.729 cent, while for 1899 it was 0.724 cent. An increase in earnings per train mile appears for both passenger and freight trains. The average cost of running a train one mile increased nearly 9 cents as compared with 1899.