More than that, the Grand Army of the Republic is most useful in this: it represents the concentrated opinion of the men who fought in the war to preserve the Union, and it therefore may give authoritative expression, which no other body and no other part of the people can give, to that forgetfulness of the bitterness of the strife which existed during the four years of the war.

I can conceive no bond of union stronger than that which unites the men who fought from '61 to '65 in the Grand Army.

They recalled that the Pretorian Guard of Rome was an instrument in furthering the ambition of those who would suppress free institutions and who were to assume despotic power.

In the absence of the Secretary, the First Assistant Secretary, and the Assistant Secretary of the Interior Department, the Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Department is hereby designated as Acting Secretary.

It is hereby ordered that the following land in Arizona, being a part of those withdrawn by Executive Order of December 12, 1882, for use of the Papago Indians, be, and hereby are, restored to the public domain: Section 16 and sections 19 to 36, inclusive, in township 5 south of range 5 west of the Gila and Salt River meridian.

Another merit of this tax is the federal supervision which must be exercised in order to make the law effective over the annual accounts and business transactions of all corporations.

If it should ultimately reverse itself, still no taxes would have been collected until after protracted delay.

I am informed that a 2 per cent. tax of this character would bring into the Treasury of the United States not less than $25,000,000.

The tax on net income is preferable to one proportionate to a percentage of the gross receipts, because it is a tax upon success and not failure.

It imposes a burden at the source of the income at a time when the corporation is well able to pay and when collection is easy.

If the court should maintain its former view, no tax would be collected at all.