We are not striving to save the dollar at the expense of the public service.

The condition of the Treasury, which now is being supplied so largely from income taxes, is very greatly dependent upon the general condition of business throughout the country.

What I am especially solicitous about is the financial and economic condition of the Government.

A great many products go into building, and when that industry is flourishing it creates a demand for all kinds of supplies and has a beneficial influence on all kinds of production.

Employment apparently is plentiful.

The reports in relation to business conditions in the country seem to be substantially as they have been for the past months.

I am undertaking to provide for it to be carried on as a farm for the next year.

It means that we shall have to prune somewhat.

If Congress goes ahead and appropriates more money than there is in the Treasury, and makes it necessary to put in a bill increasing taxes, it won't encourage the business of the country.

I don't think any further tax reduction will come for some time.

I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.

permission is hereby given that needful advances of money be made

I can not spell out any principle upon which the bounty of the Government is bestowed through the instrumentality of the flood of private pension bills that reach me.

I discover no reason of any substance why this pension should be increased.

The necessity of combination to maintain the price of any commodity to the tariff point furnishes proof that someone is willing to accept lower prices for such commodity and that such prices are remunerative.

No condition ought to exist which would justify the grant of power to a single official, upon his judgment of its necessity, to withhold from or release to the business of the people money held in the Treasury.

The amount of money annually exacted from the industries and necessities of the people largely exceeds the sum necessary to meet the expenses of the Government.

The simple and plain duty which we owe the people is to reduce taxation to the necessary expenses of an economical operation of the Government.