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On the recordAugust 21, 1911
I can not make myself a party to dealing with the industries of the country in this way.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval an Act Reducing the Duties on Cotton Manufactures,...

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Oct 26, 1911

Well, the government of the United States is here all the time.

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Aug 17, 1911

Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms suitable for conversion into manufactured articles.\

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Oct 26, 1911

So it is I am here, after having traversed I don't know how many states and visited I do not know how many cities.

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Aug 17, 1911

This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.

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