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On the recordSeptember 16, 1909
I pointed out the difficulty that there always was in a revision of the tariff, due to the threatened disturbance of industries to be affected and the suspension of business.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address on the Tariff Law of 1909

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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.

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I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency.

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The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described.

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