Bill Taft: “I observe that there are a number of gentlemen who think that I cast a wet blanket over the convention yesterday by what…”

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.

There is no doubt but that a commission could be appointed of such unprejudiced and impartial persons, experts in investigation of economic facts, that a great deal of very valuable light could be shed upon the reasons for the high prices…

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…