Sections 27 through 37 of this act, which imposed a 2% tax on sums over $4,000, were declared unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust.
Bourke Cockran likened the Democratic stance on this act to the Scottish Highlanders' premature charge at the Battle of Culloden, to which William Jennings Bryan replied that the "David pebbles of truth" would be more effective than the "Goliath javelins of error." The Committee of the Whole overturned Tom L. Johnson's amendment to this act affecting wool and woolens. This act led to a Melville Fuller opinion resting on the principle that direct measures must be apportioned. This act's passage was depicted in a Harper's Weekly cartoon depicting a "humiliating spectacle" in which its second namesake wields a bull whip while riding the chariot of the Sugar Trust that is leading an enchained Grover Cleveland. Sections 27 through 37 of this act, which imposed a 2% tax on sums over $4,000, were declared unconstitutional in Pollock v. Farmers' Loan & Trust. For 10 points, name this 1894 act that imposed the first peacetime income tax in American history and supplanted the McKinley Tariff.
Bourke Cockran likened the Democratic stance on this act to the Scottish Highlanders' premature charge at the Battle of Culloden, to which William Jennings Bryan replied that the "David pebbles of truth" would be more effective than the "Goliath javelins of error.
Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act [accept names in reverse order; accept Revenue Act of 1894 or Tariff Act of 1894 before "1894" and prompt thereafter; prompt on "Revenue Act" or "Tariff Act"]