Bill Taft: “I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not…”

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

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.