Bill Taft: “The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are…”

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

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.

This language is so sweeping that it might be made to cover almost 150 articles used in agriculture, which would affect many sections of the present tariff, and lead to the most injurious uncertainty.

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Sitgreaves…