It has been proposed that Congress shall place a stamp tax of five dollars on every recommendation for office, and an additional entry-tax of ten dollars on every candidate who may file his papers at the department. This, according to the estimation of the House Committee of Ways and Means, will produce an annual revenue of over one million of dollars, which will be double on the year that a new President is inaugurated.
– Published in The Davenport Daily Gazette, Davenport, Iowa, Monday Morning, April 7, 1862, p. 2
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