Bill Taft: “The personal touch between the people and the man to whom they temporarily delegate power of course conduces to a better…”

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…

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

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

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…