There is, however, one place where additional defense is badly needed, and that is at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, where it is proposed to make an artificial island for a fort which shall prevent an enemy's fleet from entering this most important strategical base of operations on the whole Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Taft identifies a critical need for additional defense at the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.
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The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.
I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.
The truth is that the language of the act is so ambiguous and possibly all-embracing that it is impracticable for the Treasury Department to give an exact estimate as to the diminution in revenue which will follow its passage.
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