Bill Taft: “A present declaration even of future independence would retard progress by the dissension and disorder it would arouse.”

Now that they can be studied and understood—all the business men who touch the decision in any way will conduct their business hereafter according to the law.

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

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

The purpose of this exclusion is to restore the White Mountain Apache 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 Sitgreaves…