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President Woodrow Wilson Advocates Establishing the U.S. International Trade Commission, and Refuses to Hamstring It As the Price For Passage by Woodrow Wilson

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Title: President Woodrow Wilson Advocates Establishing the U.S. International Trade Commission, and Refuses to Hamstring It As the Price For Passage
Author: Woodrow Wilson
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 8/6/16. “I think the freer it [the commission] is to get at the facts and to draw inferences as the facts demand, the better it will be for the whole country.”In the Progressive Era, many Americans supported the idea of non-partisan, semi-independent commissions to regulate and manage aspects of the economy. Theodore Roosevelt empowered the Interstate Commerce Commission and established the Food and Drug Administration. Woodrow Wilson created the Federal Trade Commission and the Federal Reserve system. He also guided establishment of the U.S. International Trade Commission, originally known as the U.S. Tariff Commission. All of these commissions continue to exist today, showing the wisdom and durability of the concepts.Here is how the latter commission came into being. In 1915 Democratic leaders urged the Administration to prepare for the 1916 election by crafting a proposal for a permanent tariff commission that would appeal to former Progressive Party voters who had supported TR in 1912. Wilson initially resisted, sticking to his anti-tariff political philosophy, but the specter of World War I began to influence his thinking. During December 1915 and January 1916, it became clear to Wilson and the Democratic leadership in the House that preparedness would require tax increases. Because of the power of populist Democrats, particularly Southern, the increases would almost certainly include hikes in the taxation of corporations, and the introduction of an excess profits tax. Wilson considered supporting this approach, but worried about the backlash both from business and from voters, particularly in the Northeast, who might punish the President for tax increases. So within the Wilson Administration, emanating from Cabinet members like Treasury Secretary of William G. McAdoo in particular, a new tactical idea took hold. The administration's support for the Tariff Commission idea could do more than simply appeal to Roosevelt Progressives; it could, by holding out the carrot of potential tariffs to assist them, help ease business hostility to the ambitious and radical income tax plans being put forward to raise money for war preparedness.Wilson overcame his hesitancy, and he and the House leadership reached a meeting of the minds. Wilson formally agreed that the Commission would focus on fact-gathering rather than policy-making, and its main assignment would be to assist legislators in writing trade laws. The question of what tariffs, if any, to raise would be left to the commission to recommend. They also agreed that Representative Henry Rainey of Illinois, the second-ranking Democrat on Ways and Means, would introduce the bill in the House. In June, once the Ways and Means Committee hammered out its version of the revenue legislation, Wilson and the House leadership decided the contents of the Rainey bill might be useful as a vehicle to dampen opposition to the tax/revenue legislation also being considered at the same time. That legislation raised the lowest income tax rate from 1% to 2% and increased the top rate to 15% on taxpayers with incomes above $2 million. There was also an excess profits tax, and the estate tax was introduced. So after private discussions with McAdoo, the Rainey Bill with the Tariff Commission proposal was included as one section of the Revenue Bill that the committee reported out.On June 6 Representative Roscoe McCullough, who was part of a strong faction in the House that wanted high tariffs to protect American industries, introduced a measure to supplement the Rainey Bill. The McCullough bill would create a commission, but required high tariffs to protect U.S. industry, thus taking that decision essentially out of the hands of the commission and codifying it into law. McCullough tried to influence Wilson to back his version, but the President declined.Typed letter signed, as President, on White House letterhead, June 8, 1916, to McCullough, letting McCullough down easy, but refusing to hamstring the proposed commission. “I am very interested in the talk we had the other day with the additions you propose to the Rainey Bill providing for the creation of a Tariff Commission, and you were so frank and interesting about the whole matter that I wanted to see the merits of your proposals. I am sorry to say, however, that I have not been able to change the opinions I expressed with you at the time. I think that the simpler the legislation in this matter is, the better it will be and the more effective, and that it would be best not to lay down lines to guide the Commission beforehand for fear we might lay down the wrong lines. I think the freer it is to get at the facts and to draw inferences as the facts demand, the better it will be for the whole country.”The tax bill, with the U.S. Tariff Commission provision, was passed and signed by Wilson on September 8, 1916. It established the Tariff Commission as an independent federal agency of the U.S. government to serve Congress and the President as an advisory, fact finding committee on tariffs, commercial policy, and trade matters. In 1974 the commission’s name was changed to the United States International Trade Commission, and today it not merely provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches, but determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against unfair trade practices, such as subsidies, dumping, and patent, trademark and copyright infringement.

Reglamento Que Debe Observarse en los Partidos de Campo, Acerca de la Milicia Nacional Local [caption title] by [Cuba]

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Title: Reglamento Que Debe Observarse en los Partidos de Campo, Acerca de la Milicia Nacional Local [caption title]
Author: [Cuba]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: Havana: January 5, 1822. Good.. Broadside, 11.5 x 8 inches. Foxed, faint signs of folding, a few small wormholes, not affecting text. An apparently unrecorded broadside order from the captain general of Cuba, Nicolas Mahy, directing all able-bodied men under the age of fifty to join up with their local militias in order to keep the peace. The local militias are directed to go out on nightly forays "en nùmero capaz de evitar las incursiones de los salteadores por los caminos, y la desercion que pueda acontecer de los negros de los ingenios cafetales y demas haciendas." Additionally, all men between the ages of fifty and seventy are told to report to “las casas mas fuertes de los pueblos" to form a garrison that can protect women, children and the elderly in case of insurrection. By the formation of these militias and the establishment of "el uso de los pasaportes," it was hoped to identify and arrest "los vagos y mal entretenidos." All mayors, within ten days of receipt of this regulation were to report the number of men they had enlisted along with their particulars. In the early 1820s much of Spanish colonial America was gripped by revolution, and with these orders the Cuban government likely hoped to avoid similar unrest on the island. Several independence groups had been formed in Cuba as of the promulgation of this decree, the largest of which was the Soles y Rayos de Bolívar, established in 1821. Signed in print by Mahy; not in OCLC.

Two 17th-century manuscript inventories describing the considerable estate of the deceased Damoiselle Agnès de Het, wife of Jacques Lecouvreur, seigneur of Renancourt. Ink on paper, the first dated 11 January 1649, the second 23 November 1649, both in fine secretarial hands by (DE HET, Agnès)

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Title: Two 17th-century manuscript inventories describing the considerable estate of the deceased Damoiselle Agnès de Het, wife of Jacques Lecouvreur, seigneur of Renancourt. Ink on paper, the first dated 11 January 1649, the second 23 November 1649, both in fine secretarial hands
Author: (DE HET, Agnès)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 54; 7 leaves (final blank). Folio (both ca. 300 x 210 mm.), orig. stitching. [Amiens]: 1649. A rare survival on the market, two mid-17th-century inventories describing the estate of Agnès de Het, wife of a feudal lord, who was councillor to the king. They lived on the outskirts of Amiens. We have found a record of de Het’s husband, Lecouvreur, agreeing to rent land in 1688, but we are not able to find any record of de Het’s life. These two manuscripts provide an exhaustive listing of a 17th-century noble family’s numerous possessions. The first document (54 leaves), signed on the final leaf by Lecouvreur, is a complete inventory of this family’s belongings. It lists not only household items, but also a variety of luxury items, such as a golden coffeepot, a necklace holding fourteen diamonds, a golden ring encrusted with a diamond, two pearl necklaces, a silver clock, etc. Also recorded are tables, tablecloths, napkins, a mirror, clothing, carpets, several chests, other furniture, etc. The second manuscript (7 leaves) records the final record of de Het’s belongings. Unidentified signatory on the final leaf. Early inventories from the 17th century are quite scarce on the market, and the present manuscripts are exceptionally informative on the life and possessions of a wealthy woman of the period. In very good condition; minor dampstaining to a number of leaves.

Story of My Life, The by ANDERSEN, Hans Christian

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Title: Story of My Life, The
Author: ANDERSEN, Hans Christian
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. The First Substantial English Edition - With Distinguished Provenance The Jean Hersholt Copy ANDERSEN, Hans Christian. The Story of My Life. Now first translated into English. Author's Edition. New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1871. First American edition, and the first substantial English translation of Andersen's autobiography, with additional material extending the narrative to 1867, including his account of the Festival at Odense. Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 7/8 inches; 187 x 124 mm.). xii, 569, [1, blank] pp. Engraved portrait frontispiece of Andersen seated, holding a book, with original tissue-guard. Neat, early ink signature on title-page. Publisher's original terra-cotta cloth, decoratively stamped in blind and gilt with geometric panel design, spine decorated and lettered in gilt, brown coated endpapers. Chemised in a brown cloth folder, within a quarter brown morocco over brown cloth boards slipcase, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. A fine, unusually well-preserved copy. Provenance: the front paste-down with the gold-and-black bookplate of Jean Hersholt. A cornerstone text for understanding the life and self-fashioning of Hans Christian Andersen, The Story of My Life stands among the most engaging literary autobiographies of the nineteenth century. Drawing upon his Danish Mit Livs Eventyr, Andersen constructs his own narrative as a kind of lived fairy tale - charting his rise from poverty in Odense to international literary fame with a mixture of candor, theatricality, and self-mythologizing insight. This 1871 American edition is of particular importance as the first widely accessible English-language version, and notably includes expanded material bringing the account forward to 1867, absent from earlier European printings. As such, it represents the fullest contemporary statement of Andersen's own view of his life, published just four years before his death. The association with Jean Hersholt is especially appealing. Hersholt, himself Danish-born, was one of the great collectors of Andersen, assembling an important library devoted to his compatriot. Copies bearing his bookplate are both desirable and increasingly sought after, adding a layer of cultural and collecting significance to the present example. Copies of this edition are frequently encountered worn or rebacked; examples in such fresh original cloth, with strong gilt and sound text block, are decidedly uncommon. The present copy, further distinguished by the Hersholt provenance, ranks among the more attractive examples likely to be encountered. A highly desirable copy of Andersen's autobiographical masterpiece - the author telling his own story, in his own lifetime, and in its fullest early English form - with the added distinction of an important Danish-American provenance.

Aizkorbe Catalogue [Latest Work] by AIZKORBE, F. & TALLER MACLA

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Title: Aizkorbe Catalogue [Latest Work]
Author: AIZKORBE, F. & TALLER MACLA
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: fine
Description: Navarra: Taller Macla, 1990. paperback. fine. Profusely illustrated with large color photographs. 117pp with text in English. 4to, stiff glossy pictorial wrappers. Navarra: Taller Macla, [1990]. A fine copy of this handsome catalogue, with a lengthy inscription and small drawing on a preliminary page. Scarce. Fine

Wings of Flame, Everyday Fables by EGAN, Joseph Burke

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Title: Wings of Flame, Everyday Fables
Author: EGAN, Joseph Burke
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Philadelphia: The John C. Winston Company, 1929. First Edition. Cloth. Very good. Edwin J. PRITTIE. First edition. 8vo; xv, 365pp; gilt stamped decorative border to royal blue cloth over board, color illustrated paper onlay of a sailboat; blue stained top edge; illustrated endpapers, pencil ownership and inscription to front pastedown; 4 color plates including frontispiece; 25 black and white illustrations; rear pastedown has bookseller's ticket "Hudson's Bookshop Detroit" and two stamped prices, $1.00 and 25 cents; pg 46 has a printer's ink smear; light shelf wear; very good.

COMP'S-EYE VIEW OF SPELLING.|A by Wulling, Emerson G.

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Title: COMP'S-EYE VIEW OF SPELLING.|A
Author: Wulling, Emerson G.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: La Cross: Sumac Press, 1964. stiff paper wrappers. Sumac Press. square small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. (18) pages. Limited to 180 copies. Schanilec 101.

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