This legislation eventually cost the Republicans Congress and the Presidency and it was replaced by the Wilson-Gorman Tariff.
Douglas Irwin argued that this legislation's targeting of the domestic tin plate industry, which was written to expire after seven years if it did not succeed, did accelerate its growth by a decade. Irwin also calculated that this legislation would have increased federal government revenue and hence the problematic surplus, validating the arguments Democrats made against it, except for the fact that it put sugar on the (*) duty-free list. This legislation's namesake proposed it as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee after he lost the speakership election to Thomas Reed, and he was thereafter known as the "Napoleon of Protection." This legislation eventually cost the Republicans Congress and the Presidency and it was replaced by the Wilson-Gorman Tariff. For 10 points, name this 1890 legislation sponsored by an Ohioan who was elected President in 1896.
Douglas Irwin argued that this legislation's targeting of the domestic tin plate industry, which was written to expire after seven years if it did not succeed, did accelerate its growth by a decade.
McKinley Tariff [accept Tariff Act of 1890 before 1890 is mentioned]