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MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832 )

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 475 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MILLS, ROGER QUARLES (1832 ) , American legislator, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, on the 3oth of March 1832. He went to
Texas
  in 1839, studied law, and was admitted to the bar by a
special
  act of the legislature before he was twenty-one. He entered the Confederate army in 1861, took part as a private in the battle of Wilson's Creek, and as colonel commanded the Tenth
Texas
  Infantry at Arkansas Post, Chickamauga (where he commanded a brigade during part of the battle), Missionary
Ridge
  and Atlanta. He served in the national
House
  of Representatives as a Democrat from 1873 to 1892 and in the Senate from 1892 to 1899. He made the tariff his
special
  study, and was long recognized as the leading authority in Congress. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee of the
House
  of Representatives in 18871889 during President Cleveland's first administration, he led the fight for reform. From his committee he reported in April 1888 the " Mills Bill," which provided for a reduction of the duties on sugar, earthen-
ware
 , glassware, plate glass, woollen goods and other articles, the substitution of ad valorem for specific duties in many cases, and the placing of lumber (of certain kinds), hemp, wool, flax, borax, tin plates, salt and other articles on the free
list
 . This bill was passed by the Democratic House on the 21st of July, and was then so amended by a Republican Senate as to be unacceptable to the house. The tariff thus became the
chief
  issue in the presidential campaign of 1888. In 1891 Mills was a candidate in the
Democratic caucus for Speaker of the house, but was defeated by Charles F. Crisp (18451896) of Georgia. During the free silver controversy he adhered to the Cleveland section of the Democratic party, and failed to be re-elected when his term in the Senate expired in 1899. He then retired to Corsicana, Texas, where he engaged in business and the practice of law.


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