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On the recordMarch 27, 1910
I have therefore appointed a Tariff Board consisting of three members and have directed them to perform all the duties above described.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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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 principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the finished product is made free from duty, and the raw material and the machinery necessary for its production are kept on the dutiable list.

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