Bill Taft: “In this age of commercial diplomacy it was evidently of the first importance to train an adequate personnel in that…”

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 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…

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

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