Bill Taft: “If it should ultimately reverse itself, still no taxes would have been collected until after protracted delay.”

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

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation in all respects to the status existing prior to the said proclamation of March 2, 1909, as though the inclusion of the lands within the Trinity National Forest…

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.