Bill Taft: “I know, because there was a time when I had some responsibility connected with it.”

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

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 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.