Bill Taft: “I am not inspired to say much to-day, because I feel so much more than I can say.”

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…

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…

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

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.