Excerpt from Testimony Taken by the Subcommittee on the Tariff of the State Committee on Finance in Connection With the Bill H. R. 9051, to Reduce Taxation and Simplify the Laws in Relation to the Collection of the Revenue, Vol. 4 of 4 The Opposition encountered at the hearing was confined, so we are informed, to a party representing German manufacturers and Chinese importers, whose interests are of course identical, and to Governor Gear, of Iowa, who numbers among his constituents the Fort Madison Chair Company of that State, who are contractors for the convict labor in the penitentiary located at that point. We are menaced by heavy and ln creasing importations from Germany and China, which will greatly contract the output of our home manufacturers and reduce number of bands employed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.