SIGNED WITH TWO PENS.
UNITED STATES TARIFF BILL. In defiance of tho Friday supe'rstitioii President Wilson signed the- great Tariff Law in. tho Wliito House at nine o'clock on a Friday night in the presence of leading _ niembexs of Congress, tho Vicc-President, tho Speaker of tiro House of Representatives, and a number of newspaper correspondents. Tho law reduces high tariff to ail. average of 28 par eent M and is tho lowest tariff which America lias had for throe-quarters of -a. century. .It cams into operation at midnight.. Mora tho'n .-615.,000,000 worth of goods in bond in New York alone was ..awaiting rcieaSo under the new tariff. President W'' sou signed the cpoeh* making law with two pews. a® wrote Woodiw with one pen, which he prosßiitod to Representative Underwood tlui author of tlto Bill, and Wilson with the oilier, which lie presented to Senator Siuunonds. Moving-picture concerns were refused, permission, to record the history, eoromonj.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 9
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156SIGNED WITH TWO PENS. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1909, 18 November 1913, Page 9
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