Bill Taft: “I therefore recommend that in any revision the importance of a graduated scale of ad valorem duties on cloths be…”

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache 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 Sitgreaves…

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

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.

There is no difference between the reasons which call for the application of the leasing system to the coal lands still retained by the Government in the United States proper and those which exist in Alaska.