Bill Taft: “This is the first case involving such great international questions which has been submitted to the Permanent Court of…”

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the 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…

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

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.