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58TH CONGRESS, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. REpORT
1st Session. No. 1.
RECIPROCITY WITH CUBA.
NOVEMBER 13, 1903.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the state
of the Union and ordered to be printed.
Mr. PAYNE, from the Committee on Ways and Means, submitted the
following
REPORT.
[To accompany H. R. 1921.]
The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill
(H. R. 1921) to carry into effect a convention between the United
States and the Republic of Cuba, signed on the 11th day of December,
in the year 1902, having had the same under consideration, report the
same back with a recommendation that the bill pass.
The enactment of this bill into law is necessary to give effect to the
convention providing for reciprocal trade between this country and
Cuba. This results not merely because the convention itself provides
that it shall not take effect until the same shall have been approved
by the Congress, but because the Constitution gives no power to the
President and the Senate to make a convention or treaty changing the
rates of revenue. That power is expressly lodged in the Congress
(sec. 8, Article I of the Constitution). Section 7 of the same article
provides that all bills for raising revenue shall originate in the House
of Representatives. It is not intended here to cite authorities or
advance reasons on this proposition. The records of Congress abound
with unrefuted arguments on the affirmative of this contention, and the
practice of Congress has been uniformly in the same direction. The
reciprocity treaties with Great Britian in reference to our trade rela-
tions with Canada and with Hawaii were, by their terms, each depend-
ent upon the passage by the Congress of appropriate legislation reducing
the duties and making provision for the carrying into effect of their
terms. Every treaty requiring the payment of money, from the Jay
treaty to the treaty of Paris with Spain, has been referred to the
Congress to make the necessary appropriation of money. Foreign
countries in making treaties with us are bound to take notice of this
requirement of our Constitution, and, whether it is expressed in the
treaty or not, the whole matter is subject to the necessary legislationl
by the Congress.
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