Bill Taft: “The tract above described is hereby restored to the public domain.”

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…

The executive proposes and congress disposes.

Pledged to support a policy of moderate protection, I can not approve a measure which violates its principle.

It appears that a Norwegian company has applied to the Cuban Government for permission to raise these wrecks and that before considering the proposition the Cuban Government desires to receive the views of the United States in regard…