Bill Taft: “Provided, That nothing herein shall affect any valid existing rights of any person”

I would rather cut off my right hand than do anything to disturb the business of this country.

The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.

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.\

There is no doubt but that a commission could be appointed of such unprejudiced and impartial persons, experts in investigation of economic facts, that a great deal of very valuable light could be shed upon the reasons for the high prices…