I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.
Of course if it shall turn out that the most thorough excavation will not disclose the cause we must be content, but as ...
I earnestly hope that Congress will take immediate action in this regard, as recommended by the Secretary of War.
This would impose a heavy burden on the administrative branch of the Government, create disastrous uncertainty in commer...
This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemakin...
The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are...
I withhold my approval from this bill, therefore, for the reasons, first, because it should not be considered until the ...
But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many inst...
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect ...
Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers...
The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Tr...
The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive mor...
Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and w...
I have always regarded this language as fixing the proper measure of protection at the ascertained difference between th...
I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon...
Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the ...
If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public...
