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On the recordDecember 7, 1909
Then when the time comes that political exigency shall prevent the appropriation of sufficient amounts from the current revenues to put the proper part of the project through the coming year or the coming two years as economy requires, the question of issuing bonds will arise.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Address at the Sixth Annual Convention of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress

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