The Washington times., 1911-07-08
WOMAN'S STORY OF
DICK To DICK NOTE
TOBE INVESTIGATED
House Committee to Probe
Ballinger-Ryan Letter In
volving Taft.
Continued from First Page.)

NSOuIlAucQ AEOul rlTSI PaRo.l
on which / copied the postscript. As
stated In my interview printed Friday,
Secretary Fisher had instructed Ash
nun Brown, his secretary, to show me
the whole record In the Controller Bay
matter. Mr.. Fisher was leaving for
Philadelphia at IL o'clock, and !, spent
from that time to a Quarter~to In the
afternoon going through the records
with Mr.. Brown l found a letter from
r. 8. Ryan to R. A Ballinger, dated
July Ia, 1910, typewriter on printed sta
tionery, at the head Of which was u
Williams street, New York. 1t was
signed r. 8. Ryan
Attached to this letter was another
sheet of paper. which began Dear
Dick and which said:
i went to see the President the other
day about this Controller Bay affair.
The President asked me whom it was l
represented. l told him, according to
our agreement, that 1 represented my
self. But that didn't seem to satisfy
him. So I sent for Charlie Taft and
asked him to tell his brother who it was
1 really represented. The President
made no further objection to my claim.
Yours, DICK
The postscript was written with a
pen, ana was iIlegible as to one word.
showed II to Mr.. Brown and asked
him what word it was. He said it was
agreement So 1 completed my copy
sion,
When Brown and 1 were going
through the record, he was turning the
pages at first, and l noticed that he
several times turned two pages at a
Time l made mental note of that, and
when he had gone through the pile of
papers held out my hand for the
Dundle. 1t was apparent .hat he gave
II to me with reluctance. He had re-
marked, from time to time, You see
this is all right or That is ali right
or words to that effect
Copied the Letter.
Il took the papers and turned through
to where Mr.. Brown had turned two
with the postscript 1t was so vital
that copied it verbatim.
Il realized that 1t was vitality impor-
tant. 1t showed that an understanding
had been reached between Ryan and
Ballinger that Ryan was to allege that
he represented himself; that is, was in
dependent of the Morgan-Guggenheim
Alaska Syndicate. and that such allie
cation by Ryan had failed to bring the
President to do the thing Ryan wanted
in getting Controller Bay rights for the
syndicate 1t was perfectly apparent
that Ryan meant to tell Ballinger that
Charles P. Taft had told the President
that Ryan really represented the syndi-
cate, and that, having been so assured,
the President was willing to do the
things as to Controller Bay that Ryan
wanted.
Il am ready to go under oath and re-
iterate these statements. and to produce
anywhere, before an authorized tribun-
al. my paper containing my copy Of
that postscript"
Ashman Brown, who at the time was
private secretary TO Secretary Fisher,
of the Interior Department, was pri-
vate secretary to former Secretary Bal
linger. 1t is no secret that Brown was
partisan and personal friend of Bal
linger; sympathized with him through
out the whole Ballinger- -PinchOt contrO-
versy; was correspondent here of the
Seattle Daily Post-Intelligencer, print
ed IN the home of Ballinger, and warm
ly devoted to the cause of Balltnger.
Brown Wrote Report.
According to Miss Abbotts statement.
Secretary Fisher admitted that he had
been too busy to go through the record,
and she also states that Brown told
her that he himself wrote the report
which Secretary Fisher sent to the
Senate April 26, 1911. in answer to the
La Toilette resolution; that he wrote
that report because Secretary Fisher
was not familiar with the record. and
that he (Brown) was.
Secretary Fisher, in a dispatch from |
Chicago, printed this morning. said:
lido not know what executive order is
referred to in the dispatches"
1t appears from this that Fisher has
not gone into the matter at all, mas
much as there is no denial that the
President signed an executive order on
October %, 1910. restoring to public
entry 1880 acres of land on the shores
of Controller bay that Roosevelt had
withdrawn and added to the Chugach
national forest 1t was from these re-
stored lands that Ryan took approx
mately $40 acres by filing through an
agent soldiers additional scrip in the
names of ]. ]. Ryan, Arnold Scheuer,
and Frank F. Davis.