I urge upon Congress the appointment of a commission to undertake these national improvements, and to submit a plan for their execution; and when the plan has been submitted and approved, and the work carried out, Washington will really become what it ought to be--the most beautiful city in the world.
Taft calls for a commission to oversee national improvements in Washington to enhance its beauty.
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I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.
Another clause that calls for comment is in the leather paragraph, which reads as follows: \Leather cut into shoe uppers or vamps or other forms suitable for conversion into manufactured articles.\
I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by 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.
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