Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 14.

In other words, the resolution approves the admission of Arizona with the judicial recall, unless the voters themselves repudiate it.

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority.

No honest, clear-headed man, however great a lover of popular government, can deny that the unbridled expression of the majority of a community converted hastily into law or action would sometimes make a government tyrannical and cruel.

If I sign this joint resolution, I do not see how I can escape responsibility for the judicial recall of the Arizona constitution.

In dealing with the courts, which are the cornerstone of good government, and in which not only the voters, but the nonvoters and nonresidents, have a deep interest as a security for their rights of life, liberty, and property, no matter…

Judges to fulfill their functions properly in our popular Government must be more independent than in any other form of government, and that need of independence is greater where the individual is one litigant and the State, guided by the…

We believe that this benefit is best accomplished by popular government, because in the long run each class of individuals is apt to secure better provision for themselves through their own voice in government than through the altruistic…

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and France on August 3, 1911.

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain on August 3, 1911.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in Pinal County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal and set aside as an addition to the Gila River Indian Reservation, Ariz.

The whole contention that the executive order and the opening to settlement of the shore of Controller Bay grants a monopoly to the railway company rests on the claim that it has given an opportunity to persons using scrip to appropriate…

The tract above described is hereby restored to the public domain.

I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not be turned over to be exploited for the profit of greedy, absorbing, and monopolistic corporations or syndicates.

It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.