Political Quotes

The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.

Well, the government of the United States is here all the time.

Executive Order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses all of townships 1 and 2 north, ranges 5 and 6 east, in Arizona, lying south of the Salt River, is hereby amended so as to withdraw permanently from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition all that part of section 35 in township 2 north, range 5 east, of the Gila and Salt River meridian, lying south of the Salt River, for use of the Pima and Maricopa Indians and such other Indians as the Secretary of the Interior may see fit to settle thereon, subject to any existing valid rights of any persons thereto.

Of course if it shall turn out that the most thorough excavation will not disclose the cause we must be content, but as long as there remains unexcavated any portion of the mud and debris within the wreck or its neighborhood from which evidence may be had of the original cause of the disaster, we shall be derelict in our duty in not prosecuting a further search.