Bill Taft: “I am confident that such a change would greatly reduce the cost of administering the Government, and that it would add…”

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, Therefore, I, William Howard Taft, President of the United States of America, do, in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress and the joint resolution of Congress herein named, declare and proclaim the fact that the…

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.

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.