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.
Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Reducing the Duties on Cotton Manufactures,...
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If I fail to recommend the reduction of excessive duties to this extent, I shall fail in my duty to the consuming public.
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.
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
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