Bill Taft: “I do not hesitate to say that you have been the object of one of the most unscrupulous conspiracies for the defamation…”

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…

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 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

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.