Bill Taft: “I am very sure that the Speaker of the House...is charged with a deep responsibility in regard to this great question.”

The important thing is to get our tariff legislation out of the slough of guesswork and logrolling and ex parte statements of interested persons, and to establish that legislation on the basis of tested and determined facts.

The bill is so carelessly drawn that it would inevitably lead to the greatest uncertainty as to what articles are or are not covered by its various provisions.

There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.

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…