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Tillman's Amendment To The Tariff

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Day
18
Month
June
Year
1897
Copyright
Public Domain
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Washington. June 15.- Senator Tinman Tuesday gave notice of an amendment he will offer to the tariff bilí providing for a head tax of $100 on all immigrants to the United States. The amendmfent alsö makes it a misdemeanor punishable by fine and imprisonment for any person to enter the United States for the purpose of engaging in trade or masual labor without intending to become a citizen. These provisions are modifled by a proviso to the effect that they "shall only remain in effect until silver shall be admitted to our mints for coinage at the ratio of 16 to 1, on the same conditions with go'd."

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Ann Arbor Argus
Old News