Bill Taft: “Every one must admit the wisdom of providing for the payment of the canal expenditure by bonds.”

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress and the joint resolution of Congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the…

I can not close this message without inviting the attention of Congress again to the necessity for the erection of a building to contain the public archives.

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…

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