Bill Taft: “It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not…”

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.

This imposes a penalty on the domestic labor of cutting and would transfer half the process in the industry of shoemaking and glove making to foreign countries.

The Navy Department has no objection to the proposed salvage operations, but the Department of State holds the view that these wrecks are public property of the United States, which may be alienated only by an act of Congress or by a…

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.