Peter Vivian Daniel

“ That the tumblers of glass in question were 'glass cut,' tumblers of glass punted, tumblers with ornamental figures cut upon them, and not 'glass tumblers, plain, moulded, or pressed, not cut or punted,' cannot be made more lucid by argument than by the testimony given. Importing merchants cannot demolish facts, change the qualities and substance of things, alter the descriptions and meaning of schedules B and C, in the tariff of 1846, nor evade their effect by arbitrary names, which they may think fit to give to things imported by them. ”

“ But it could be easily understood, both by the law-maker and by others, that the beauty, the quality, and the price of glass are heightened by the process of cutting, and it was equally notorious or susceptible of proof, that the process of cutting is accomplished by but one species of operation, viz.: the operation of grinding. ”

“ That tumblers known in trade and commerce, and amongst manufacturers as 'moulded tumblers,' or 'pressed tumblers,' are also made entirely by the glassblower; and are also rough-bottomed until subjected to the process of punting, or smoothing and cutting above described.
By the same witnesses. That all cutting of glass is done by means of grinding upon wheels, and that there is no such thing as the cutting of glass in the manufacture of 'cut glass' in any other way. ”