Bill Taft: “I do not think trades-unionism was greatly aided by the attempt to drag all organized labor into politics.”

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…

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.

I earnestly recommend the establishment of a Bureau of National Parks.

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.