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…”

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.

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.

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

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley 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 Trinity National Forest…