Editing McKinley Tariff (section)

==Reactions==
The tariff was not well received by Americans who suffered a steep increase in prices. In the [[1890 United States House of Representatives elections|1890 election]], Republicans lost their majority in the House with the number of seats they won reduced by nearly half, from 171 to 88.<ref>Reitano 1994, p. 130</ref> In the [[1892 United States presidential election|1892 presidential election]], Harrison was soundly defeated by Grover Cleveland, and the Senate, House, and Presidency were all under Democratic control. Lawmakers immediately started drafting new tariff legislation, and in 1894, the Wilson-Gorman Tariff passed, which lowered US tariff averages.<ref>Taussig 1892, p. 291</ref> The 1890 tariff was also poorly received abroad. Protectionists in the British Empire used it to argue for tariff retaliation and imperial trade preference.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Marc-William |last=Palen |title=Protection, Federation and Union: The Global Impact of the McKinley Tariff upon the British Empire, 1890–94 |journal=Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History |volume=38 |issue=3 |year=2010 |pages=395–418 |doi=10.1080/03086534.2010.503395 |s2cid=159638185 }}</ref>