Excerpt from Speech of Mr. Simmons, of Rhode Island, in Reply to Messrs. Benton, Woodbury, and McDuffie, Upon the Resolutions to Postpone the Bill Introduced by Mr. McDuffie to Reduce the Duties on Imports: Delivered in the U. S. Senate, March 27, 1844 Proportionate per centage of the whole amount received for. Duties on the whole amount consumed in the United States 25 7-10 per ct. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.