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On the recordJanuary 25, 1911
I therefore earnestly hope that the measure will be promptly enacted into law.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Aug 20, 1911

I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.

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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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Aug 14, 1911

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 successful and governing majority, is the other.

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Jul 25, 1911

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 control of the only available and practicable parts of the channel by the location of the scrip opposite to those parts.

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