History of the United States . ER-HOUSE, AND WAGONS UNLOADING AT SEED STORAGE-HOUSE however, a few Democrats voted with the Republicans to increasethe rates on a number of articles. In its final form Clevelanddenounced the bill and it became a law without his signature.^° At the time the W^ilson bill was being passed in the House,that body attempted to provide against an anticipated decreasein revenue by raising the internal revenue tax on Income taxliquors and by the passage of a tax on incomes in excess of $4,000;but th6 latter tax was declared unconstitutional by the UnitedStates Supreme Co
History of the United States . ER-HOUSE, AND WAGONS UNLOADING AT SEED STORAGE-HOUSE however, a few Democrats voted with the Republicans to increasethe rates on a number of articles. In its final form Clevelanddenounced the bill and it became a law without his signature.^° At the time the W^ilson bill was being passed in the House,that body attempted to provide against an anticipated decreasein revenue by raising the internal revenue tax on Income taxliquors and by the passage of a tax on incomes in excess of $4,000;but th6 latter tax was declared unconstitutional by the UnitedStates Supreme Court. See Sec. 280. ^^ The leader of these high tariff Democrats was Gorman of Maryland,so that the bill was afterwards known as the Wilson-Gorman bill. 354 EVENTS FROM 1877 TO WAR AVITH SPAIN 264. Foreign Affairs during Clevelands Second Term.—From llearly in the nineteenth century, when Great Britain secured apart of Guiana from Holland, the boundary line between thatprovince and Venezuela had been in dispute. This dispute. THE UNION PACIFIC CROSSING SALT LAKE; A CUT-OFF TWENTY-SEVEN MILES IN LENGTH reached a critical stage during Clevelands second term subse-The Vene- Queut to an ultimatum from Great Britain that she zuela boun-dary dispute would definitely occupy a large part of the territory claimed by Venezuela, The latter country appealed to the United FOREIGN AFFAIRS 355 States for protection and arbitration of the difficulty. Uponreceiving tliis appeal, President Cleveland offered the friendlyservices of the United States to secure the arbitration asked forby Venezuela. This proposition, however, the British govern-ment refused to consider. Cleveland now took the position thatthe Monroe doctrine eml traced the mediation of the United Statesto protect anv American country from aggression on Extension of , ^ -r^ ^ T 1 • 1 1- 1 <h^ Monroe the part of European powers. In this case he did not doctrineassume that wrong had been done to Venezuela but that theUnited Sta
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