Time and time again a forceful and earnest presentation of facts and arguments by the representative of the Executive whose duty it is to enforce the law would have brought about a useful reform by amendment, which in the absence of such a statement has failed of passage.
Taft believes that the presence of executive representatives can lead to more effective legislative reforms.
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Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
I would rather cut off my right hand than do anything to disturb the business of this country.
But there is another, and a very important, reason why the bill ought not to become a law, and that is that in many instances it adopts the principle, rarely permitted in any revenue system, on whatever theory constructed, by which the…
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