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William Alexander Linn, Horace Greeley Founder and Editor of The New York Tribune, Chapter 9: Greeley's presidential campaign-his death (search)
es. Congress in that year passed a tariff bill, but it did not satisfy the revenue reformers, since, while reducing the duty on pig iron from $9 to $7 a ton, it increased the duty on steel rails, nickel, flax, and marble. The removal of Mr. Wells from his office was accepted as an affront both to tariff reform and to civil service reform. The urgency of the demand for relief from tariff burdens was shown by a letter from a Republican observer in Washington, printed in the Tribune in March, 1871, advocating a carefully revised tariff bill so wisely drawn that it will permit the party to escape a split on this question in the coming presidential campaign. Hubbard, of New Hampshire, on March 27, 1871, moved in the House that the tariff should be so reformed as to be a tax for revenue only, and not for the protection of class interests at the general expense. A motion to table this resolution was defeated by a vote of 2 yeas to 154 nays, and it was referred to the Ways and Means C