Free Ships: The Restoration of the American Carrying Trade (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But, it was not more.strange than that this committee really appointed to look into the carrying trade to which the misnomer commerce was so inadvertently applied, should have entirely ignored its duty by constituting itself into an eleemosynary body for the bestowal of national charity upon shipbuilders. Its Report fell dead upon the floor of the House, and was so ridied in the Senate that when a motion was made to lay the bill for printing it upon the table, Mr. Da, of Kentucky, suggested, as an amendment, that it be kicked under it. Nevertheless, the huge volume of irrelevant testimony was published for the benefit of two great home industries - paper making and printing.

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