The issue is not now whether we ought originally to have begun this investigation, but it is whether, having expended a very large part of the necessary amount to do the full work, we ought to break it off for lack of a comparatively small additional appropriation.
Bill Taft: “The issue is not now whether we ought originally to have begun this investigation, but it is whether, having expended a…”
On the recordAugust 20, 1911
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Message to the Congress Recommending Appropriation for Prosecution of Work of Removing the Wreck of the Battleship Maine
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