Bill Taft: “It will be, I doubt not, an epoch in the history of this country.”

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

It is believed that the following described land, to wit: Lot three of section two, in township twenty-two north, of range twenty-four west, of the Montana Meridian, in the State of Montana, is a natural and prospective center of population

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 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.