Bill Taft: “I am willing to admit, as I suppose you will, the truth of the statement of the Chairman, that I have not anywhere had…”

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.

Now, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress and the joint resolution of Congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the…

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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.