Bill Taft: “The passage of the bill would not entail a dollar's expense upon the Government at this time or in the future until war…”

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

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…

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

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.