Bill Taft: “I recommend that favorable action be taken by the Congress.”

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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

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.