Abstract
EDWARD P. COSTIGAN'S resignation from the United States Tariff Commission in 1928, after eleven years of faithful service on that body, was accompanied by a public remonstrance against alleged violations of law in the administration of the commission and misconduct in office by the of the United States. The Nation, weekly journal of opinion, quickly took up the cry and devoted a full page to President Coolidge's Misfeasance. According to the Nation, Costigan had presented specific and convincing evidence in support of his charges that the had (1) packed the Tariff Commission by appointing to it and retaining on it utterly unworthy men; (2) overruled its recommendations, because of political pressure brought to bear upon him by those who line their pockets through unjustifiably high tariffs; (3) subverted the purpose of Congress when it established the commission and kept it from becoming the scientific control valve it was intended to be and instead made it a
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