Bill Taft: “Provided, That nothing herein shall affect any existing valid rights of any person to the lands described.”

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…

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…

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