Bill Taft: “Nothing could modify my ambitions, nothing restrain the haste with which I would go back to the Capitol City except the…”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley 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 Trinity National Forest…

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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

It is believed that the following described land, to wit: Lot three of section two, in township twenty-two north, of range twenty-four west, of the Montana Meridian, in the State of Montana, is a natural and prospective center of population