Bill Taft: “The rapid depletion of these herds is undoubtedly to be ascribed to the practice of pelagic sealing.”

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

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 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.

It is believed that the following described land, to wit: Lot three of section two, in township twenty-two north, of range twenty-four west, of the Montana Meridian, in the State of Montana, is a natural and prospective center of population