William Taft actually said...

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...

Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff.

Certainly we should proceed prudently in dealing with them upon the basis of ascertained facts rather than hastily and without knowledge to ...

I shall not hesitate to invite the attention of Congress to this fact and to the necessity for action predicated thereon.