Bill Taft: “The creating of higher ranking flag officers is a military necessity.”

Now, I hope that it has taken the railroads out of politics.

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.

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.

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…