Bill Taft: “We are now near enough the completion of the canal to make it imperatively necessary that legislation should be enacted…”

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.

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

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…