Bill Taft: “I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency.”

I withhold my approval from this bill, therefore, for the reasons, first, because it should not be considered until the Tariff Board shall make report upon the schedules it affects; second, because the bill is so loosely drawn as to…

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.

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

The executive proposes and congress disposes.