Bill Taft: “I urge upon Congress the necessity for an immediate increase of 2,000 men in the enlisted strength of the Navy, provided…”

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.

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 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 think it to be greatly in the interest of fair dealing, which ought always to be encouraged by law.