Bill Taft: “I am the last one to take a position against that old doctrine of the common law that there ought to be nothing to…”

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.

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.

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

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…