Bill Taft

Constitutions are checks upon the hasty action of the majority.

I must therefore withhold my approval from this resolution if in fact I do not approve it as a matter of governmental policy.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

In other words, the resolution approves the admission of Arizona with the judicial recall, unless the voters themselves repudiate it.

If I sign this joint resolution, I do not see how I can escape responsibility for the judicial recall of the Arizona constitution.

I return herewith, without my approval, House joint resolution No. 14.

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and Great Britain on August 3, 1911.

With a view to receiving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the treaty, I transmit herewith an authenticated copy of a treaty signed by the plenipotentiaries of the United States and France on August 3, 1911.

It is hereby ordered that the following-described lands in Pinal County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal and set aside as an addition to the Gila River Indian Reservation, Ariz.

I am in full sympathy with the concern of reasonable and patriotic men that the valuable resources of Alaska should not be turned over to be exploited for the profit of greedy, absorbing, and monopolistic corporations or syndicates.

The whole contention that the executive order and the opening to settlement of the shore of Controller Bay grants a monopoly to the railway company rests on the claim that it has given an opportunity to persons using scrip to appropriate…

It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.

The tract above described is hereby restored to the public domain.

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in the State of Florida be, and they are hereby withdrawn from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal, and set aside as a reservation for the Seminole Indians in southern Florida…

The statute can be easily amended to include the evil I have described.

The need is urgent for legislation which will prevent the raising of false hopes of speedy cures of serious ailments by misstatements of fact as to worthless mixtures on which the sick will rely while their diseases progress unchecked.

I recommend that this be done at once as a matter of emergency.

Fraudulent misrepresentations of the curative value of nostrums not only operate to defraud purchasers, but are a distinct menace to the public health.

An evil which menaces the general health of the people strikes at the life of the Nation.

It is hereby ordered that the following described lands in Pima County, Ariz., be, and they are hereby, reserved from settlement, entry, sale, or other disposal and set aside for school, agency, and other necessary uses for the benefit of…

It is hereby ordered that the following-described land, to wit, the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter and the west half of the northeast quarter of the northeast quarter of section 26, township 18 north of range 13 west of the…

Let us leave this beautiful city of the national dead, therefore, with the deepest gratitude to the men whose valorous deeds we celebrate.

I shall not stop to discuss whether it might have been possible to accomplish the same great reform by milder methods.

We have made great progress, almost within our own memory, in such ideals.

These ceremonies are not for the benefit of the dead.