I transmit herewith the answer of the Secretary of State to the resolution passed by the Senate of the United States on February 27, 1911, relating to the construction and armament in this country of two battleships for the Argentine Republic.
Message to the Senate Explaining Assistance Given Shipbuilders by State Department in Contest for Contract to Construct...
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The empirical and haphazard character of this bill is shown more clearly perhaps in the amendment to Schedule A than in any other.
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.
The same reasons which impelled me to decline to sign the wool bill control me in this case.
I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.
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