Bill Taft: “Considerations of proper military efficiency, as well as a due sense of national dignity, and self-respect, as befitting…”

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.

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…

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