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Remarks at the Banquet Tendered by the Citizens of Charleston at the Charleston Hotel in Charleston, South Carolina

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Aug 21, 1911

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

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Oct 26, 1911

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

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Aug 17, 1911

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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Aug 17, 1911

The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.

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