no person will be permitted to purchase more than four quarter sections, or at a less price than two dollars per acre.

What I can do in the cause I shall do, not as President of a party, but as President of the whole people.

I urge that no good can come from meetings of this sort unless we ascribe to those who take part in them, and who are apparently striving worthily in the cause, all proper motives.

As President of the United States I have, as it were, inherited this policy, and I rejoice in my heritage.

The problems are of very great difficulty and call for the calmest consideration and clearest foresight.

It is hereby ordered that Executive order dated August 25, 1877, setting aside certain described land in the State of California for Indian purposes, be, and the same hereby is, revoked in so far as it relates to the south half of section 20, township 3 south of range 1 east of the San Bernardino meridian.

by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the Act of Congress approved June seventeenth, one thousand nine hundred and ten (Public No. 215), do hereby proclaim and make known that all the lands within what was formerly the Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indian Reservation, in the State of Oklahoma, and described in the said act of Congress, which in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior are no longer needed or necessary, for the purposes for which they were originally reserved, shall be opened to entry and disposed of upon sealed bids or at public auction, at the discretion of the said Secretary, under the general provisions of the homestead laws of the United States, and of said act of Congress, on and after November fifteenth, one thousand nine hundred and ten, at the City of El Reno, in the State of Oklahoma, to the highest bidder, under rules and regulations adopted by the said Secretary.

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in the State of Idaho, viz: All that part of T. 15 S., R. 4 E., Boise meridian, lying and being west of a line formed by extending the east boundary line of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation through the said township, be, and the same are hereby withdrawn from settlement, entry, and sale, and set apart as an addition to the Duck Valley Indian Reservation

The proper policy, it seems to me, is to determine from the many projects proposed and recommended what are the most important, and then to proceed to complete them with due dispatch, and then to take up others and do the same thing with them.

I do not think, therefore, the defects of the bill which I have pointed out will justify the postponement of all this important work.

The total of the bill, $52,000,000, is not unduly large, but the policy of small appropriations with a great many different enterprises without provision for their completion is unwise.