Bill Taft: “I am delighted to have met you.”

I think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.

Now, I hope that it has taken the railroads out of politics.

There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still retained by the Government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska.

There is no doubt but that a commission could be appointed of such unprejudiced and impartial persons, experts in investigation of economic facts, that a great deal of very valuable light could be shed upon the reasons for the high prices…