Bill Taft: “The announced programmes of reforms, striking at many of the evils known to exist, are an augury of better things.”

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, I hope that it has taken the railroads out of politics.

It is hereby ordered that on and after March 1, 1912, the boundaries of the Sitgreaves National Forest, Ariz., proclaimed March 2, 1909, be further modified by excluding therefrom all that part of the White Mountain Apache Indian…

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.