Bill Taft: “[addressing the Minister of War]: I have been Minister of War, and therefore I have a sympathy with you.”

There is no doubt but that a commission could be appointed of such unprejudiced and impartial persons, experts in investigation of economic facts, that a great deal of very valuable light could be shed upon the reasons for the high prices…

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…

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

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.