Putnam patriot., 1911-08-04

I two Nen3rfmenIs nau d@tttUs Wlln my | acuuiescence. that the order should be an elimination of only 320 acres an order describing She S2o acres. direct ing it's restoration to settlement and containing the usual provision post poning it's taking effect thirty days was prepared in the forestry bureau and forwarded to the interior depart ment. There it was deemed wiser to spread on the face of the order a sac cific declaration that it was made to afford terminals for the Controller Railway and Navigation company. and as no one else was expected tO inter vene and take up any part of the elim. mated tract the restoration was made immediate.
 Approved by Secretary.
 The form thus amended was submit ted to the secretary of agriculture who expressed his preference for the im- mediate restoration order through his solicitors memorandum on the face of the order. as follows:
 Mir. Clements Assistant Attorney Tn the Interior Department-We think this O. k. The secretary says it Is the direct way and appeals to him.
 GEORGE P. MCABE.
 The idea of the secretary doubtless was that the short form of order was preferable because on its face it was directly indicative of the purpose to secure an opportunity to the railway company by proper entry 10 settle on the land eliminated. and as no one else was expected 10 intervene no postpone ment was needed Accordingly when the case came for decision in the cahi net the order was without any post. ponement clause This was the form sent me for my signature by the acting secretary of the interior department.
 When I directed the striking out of the reference to the railway company and the enlargement of the area from 320 acres to l2.Seo acres the form Of the order in its provision for imme diate restora ton was not changed. 1 have no doubt that this was the req son why the order issued took the form it did Had tie postponement clause been suggested I would doubtlessly have directed it to be embodied in the  order But the event has proven that it was really not important in this ease for in now nearly nine months only the Controller Railway Naviga. ton company has made any scrip en- tries on the eliminated tract, and this although 11,000 acres and three miles of water front still remain open to en- try and there are several different rail way companies in addition to the Con troller Railway and Navigation com pany that had filed locations for rights of way in the vicinity in the last two years who have had in the last nine months the fullest notice of their op portunity if they wished to enter on this land.
 The Dick to Dick" Letter.
 Before closing I desire to allude to a circumstance which the terms of this resolution make apt and relevant. It Is widely published statement at tributed to a newspaper correspondent that in an examination of the files of the interior department few weeks ago postscript was found attached to a letter of July 13. 1910. addressed by Mir. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary Bal linger-and in the present reeord-urg Ing the elimination of land enough for terminals for the Controller Railway and Navigation company. The post script was said to read as follows:
 Dear Dick-I went to see the president the other day. He asked me who 1t was I represented I told him, according to our agreement. that l represented myself But this didn't seem to satisfy him So sent for Charlie Taft and asked him to tell his brother. the president. who 1t was l really represented. The president made no further objection to my claim. Yours,
 DICK.
 The postscript is not now on the files of the department If 1t were. 1t would be my duty to transmit 1t under this resolution. Who is really responsible for it's wicked fabrication. if 1t ever ex- isted, or for the viciously false state ment made as to its authenticity is immaterial for the purposes of this communication. The purport of the al legged postscript is and the intention of the fabricator was to make Mir. Rich 'ard s. Ryan testify through its words to the public that although l was at first opposed in the public interest to granting the elimination which he re- quested. nevertheless through the un- due influence of my brother. Mir Charles F. Taft. and the disclosure of the real persons in interest l was in duced improperly and for the promo ton of their private gain to make the order
 The statement in so far as my brother is concerned-and that is the chief feature of the postscript-is utterly un founded He never wrote to me or spoke to me in reference to Richard \. Ryan or on the subject of Controller bay or the granting of any privileges or the making of any orders in respect to Alaska He has no interest in Alaska. never had and knows nothing of the circumstances connected with this transaction He does not remem- Der that he ever met Richard $. Ryan. He never heard of the Controller Bay railroad until my cabegram of inquiry reached him.
 Mir Ballinger says in telegram ID answer to ny inquiry that he never received such postscript and that ne was in Seattle on the date of July 13. when it was said to have been writ ten
 Mir Richard s. Ryan. in letter