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Congress Proposes Tax Reforms and Industrial Exemptions
A detailed congressional summary outlines a broad tax reform bill aiming to ease the tax burden on cost-of-living goods such as salt leather tin and pottery while exempting wagons glues and certain casks and barrels. It calls for reduced taxes on industrial inputs and certain foods including butter and cheese, with changes to alcohol tax administration and a new enforcement framework to curb evasion. The report also touches on civil rights debates, presidential power questions, and legislative actions in the Senate and House including postal, territorial, and reconstruction matters.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Patent Office
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Nebraska
Freedmen’s Bureau
Vienna
Virginia
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Ohio
Sumner
Judiciary Committee
United States
Saulsbury
Chandler
Andrew Johan
Ferellet
Gnaake
Andrew’. Johnson
J. Wilkes Booth
Lincoln
Tennnessee
Andrew Johnson
United States Army
Tennessee
Congress
Mr.Johnson
South
Andrew . Johnson
Andrew. Johnson
Jeff. Davis
Dixon
Fessenden
Pomeroy
Grimes
House
Kirkwood
Committee On Public Lands
Fox
Wisconsin
Dunderburg
Webb
Hey
Phelavana
I. Ade
Wade
Poland
Julidh
Utah Territory
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Paine
Sawyer
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Green Bay
Higbee
War Department
McRuer
Great Britain
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Trent
Henderson
Noell
Eldridge
American Equal Rights Association
Morrell
Committee On
Eliot
New Orleans
Boyer
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Carter
Supreme Court of the United States
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Senate Foreign Committee
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Austria
Ways and Means
Ramsey
Post Office Committee
Southern Minnesota Railroad
Mississippi
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Howe
Wisconsin & Lake Superior R. RR
Commissioner of Patents
Texas
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la Grange
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