William Taft actually said...

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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Message to the House of Representatives Returning Without Approval 'An Act to Place on the Free List Agricultural...'

08/17/1911

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