Five Per Cent. Discount Cases
Supreme Court of the United States
CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF CUSTOMS APPEALS. The case is stated in thé opinion. The legislative history of § IV, paragraph J, subsection 7, shows it to be the result of a vain effort to compose differences between the House, which favored discriminating duties to American vessels, and the Senate, which resisted a disturbance of existing treaties.
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CERTIORARI TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF CUSTOMS APPEALS. The case is stated in thé opinion. The legislative history of § IV, paragraph J, subsection 7, shows it to be the result of a vain effort to compose differences between the House, which favored discriminating duties to American vessels, and the Senate, which resisted a disturbance of existing treaties. It was the purpose of the House to limit the discount to goods in American vessels only, thus discriminating in their favor against the ships of all other nations. The Senate was equally determined to brook no disturbance of existing…
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Holmes
In these cases the Court of Customs Appeals hás held that by § IV, paragraph J, subsection 7, of the Act of October 3, 1913, c. 16, 38 Stat. 114, 196, merchandise imported in the registered vessels of the United States, or in the registered vessels of other nations entitled by treaty to pay no. higher duties than those levied upon vessels of the United States, is granted a discount of five per cent, upon the duties imposed by the act. Following an enactment that, except as otherwise specially provided in the statute, duties should be levied upon all articles imported from any foreign country…
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