Bill Taft: “Let us leave this beautiful city of the national dead, therefore, with the deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous…”

This would impose a heavy burden on the administrative branch of the Government, create disastrous uncertainty in commercial circles, and lead to a burdensome amount of litigation.

I concur fully in the conclusions which the Secretary of War has reached and in the recommendations which he makes.

There may be a change of persons, but the government of the United States is in the people of the United States and there are a good many of the people of the United States in Chicago.

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.