I do not think that the money we have spent even estimating it at the highest sum, has been wasted in any way.
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Address at the Washington Convention of the Laymen's Missionary Movement in Continental Memorial Hall
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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.
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 may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.
The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.





