Melville Fuller

“ The diligence of counsel has furnished us with definitions, from many dictionaries and encyclopedias, of the words 'print,' 'printing,' and 'printed matter,' from which it is argued that the essential feature of printing is not the substance on which the printing is done, but the mode of making the impression. ”

“ If a duty had been imposed on iron show-cards eo nomine, the latter would not have been dutiable as 'manufactures of iron,' any more than 'braces and suspenders,' though made of rubber, were dutiable as 'manufactures of rubber,' (Arthur v. Davies, 96 U.S. 135;) ”

“ St., as enacted by the act of March 3, 1883, the first paragraph of the schedule headed 'Schedule M, Books, Papers, Etc.,' reads: 'Books, pamphlets, bound or unbound, and all printed matter not specially enumerated or provided for in this act, engravings, bound or unbound, etchings, illustrated books, maps, and charts, twenty-five per centum ad valorem.' 22 St. 510. And then follow nine paragraphs, making ten in all in this schedule, relating to blank-books, bound or unbound, and blank-books for press copying; paper, sized or glued, suitable only for printing paper ”