10/26/1911
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"The very great importance of pursuing the investigation into the cause of cancer can not be brought home to the Congress or to the public more acutely than by inviting attention to the memorandum of D..."
"I have therefore appointed a Tariff Board consisting of three members and have directed them to perform all the duties above described."
"Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff, and until the facts are at hand, after careful and deliberate investigat..."
"I believe that the work of this board will be of prime utility and importance whenever Congress shall deem it wise again to readjust the customs duties."