Bill Taft: “It is undoubtedly a power the National Government ought to have.”

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

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.

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

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.