This law's chief measure was ruled constitutional in the Supreme Court case of Field v. Clark.
This law's chief measure was ruled constitutional in the Supreme Court case of Field v. Clark. Its Senate sponsor had added the measure giving the President a reciprocity power that was revoked two years later. Its Senate sponsor, Rhode Island's Nelson Aldrich, survived its unpopularity unlike its namesake who lost his House seat in the immediate mid-term election that followed. Queen Liliukokalani proposed disenfranchising Americans on Hawaii due to her disapproval of its passage, which was due to Western and Southern Democrats who supported it in return for Republican cooperation on the Silver Purchase Act. It was a Republican, Benjamin Harrison, who was defeated two years later largely for his support of it. FTP, name this bill that placed a 49% tax on imports and which was named for the Ohio Congressman and future 25th President of the U.S. who proposed it.
This law's chief measure was ruled constitutional in the Supreme Court case of Field v. Clark.
{Mckinley Tariff} or {Tariff of 1890} (or {Tariff Act of 1890} or {Tariff Bill of 1890})