Were there a bureau of public health such as I have already recommended, the matter could be taken up by that bureau.

I have directed the Secretary of Commerce and Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury to forward an estimate for the appropriation here recommended, in accordance with the procedure provided by law.

I respectfully request an appropriation of $50,000 for the purpose of erecting one or more laboratories at suitable places and to provide for the proper personnel and maintenance of these laboratories.

The very great importance of pursuing the investigation into the cause of cancer can not be brought home to the Congress or to the public more acutely than by inviting attention to the memorandum of Doctor Gaylord herewith.

I have therefore appointed a Tariff Board consisting of three members and have directed them to perform all the duties above described.

Nothing, however, halts business and interferes with the course of prosperity so much as the threatened revision of the tariff, and until the facts are at hand, after careful and deliberate investigation, upon which such revision can…

I respectfully urge upon Congress this appropriation.

I believe that the work of this board will be of prime utility and importance whenever Congress shall deem it wise again to readjust the customs duties.

I am glad to say that negotiations under that clause are now substantially completed with all the nations of the world with results that are satisfactory;

If the facts secured by the Tariff Board are of such a character as to show generally that the rates of duties imposed by the present tariff law are excessive under the principles of protection as described in the platform of the…

I cordially concur in the views of the Secretary of State and trust that the policy of the United States toward Liberia will be so shaped as to fulfill our national duty to the Liberian people who, by the efforts of this Government and…

The herds have been reduced to such an extent that the question of profit has become a mere incident, and the controlling question has become one of conservation.