Bill Taft: “I hesitate to occupy your time in discussing an old method of transporting goods when you have before your eyes the…”

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…

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

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.

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…