The Navy Department has no objection to the proposed salvage operations, but the Department of State holds the view that these wrecks are pu...
It appears that a Norwegian company has applied to the Cuban Government for permission to raise these wrecks and that before considering the...
I earnestly hope that Congress will take immediate action in this regard, as recommended by the Secretary of War.
Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other f...
This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemaking and glove making t...
I withhold my approval from this bill, therefore, for the reasons, first, because it should not be considered until the Tariff Board shall m...
This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the...
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are not covered by its ...
This would impose a heavy burden on the administrative branch of the Government, create disastrous uncertainty in commercial circles, and le...
But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the ...
The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the f...
The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Treasury Department to...
I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between the cost of production...
If I fail to guard as far as I can the industries of the country to the extent of giving them the benefit of a living measure of protection,...
I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon.
If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public.
Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to ...
