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On the recordNovember 5, 1909
That is one promise of the Administration that I have redeemed.
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Robert Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Luncheon Tendered by South Carolinians in the House of Representatives of the State Capitol in Columbia,...

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Aug 17, 1911

The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the framers of the law may have intended, but it is that many who do not belong to the class intended to be favored will import articles suitable for the prescribed use under the general terms of the statute, but will use them for other and general purposes.

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Oct 26, 1911

There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.

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Sep 27, 1911

Executive order of June 14, 1879, temporarily withdrawing from sale and settlement for Indian uses so much 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 permanently withdraw from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposition all those tracts lying south of the Salt River in secs. 25, 26, 34, and 36, except the SE. 1/4 of the SE. 1/4 of sec. 34, in township 2 north, range 5 east of the Gila and Salt River meridian, for the 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

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Aug 16, 1911

Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

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