The Cairo bulletin., 1911-07-27
TAFT TAKES BLAME
FOE LAND ENTRY
Continued from Page One.

different company from the Control
Ter Railway & Navigation Co. /.
does not appear upon what author
ity such permit could be given by
the War Department. Under the
tatute, the Secretary of the Treas
Try is charged with supervision over
such a case. and before lawful IL
oensa can be granted his consent
must be obtained
1t follows from what has been
said that hte question OF how the
channel of Controller Pay shall h.
ised Is wholly In the control Of Con
gross and nothing that has been
done by the executive order o.
otherwise imperils that control
With the opportunity that any pro-
iected railway has to secure access
to the harbor by locating its right
Of way to the line of the shore un
Ter supervision of the Secretary OF
he Treasury, or by application t.
Congress, the mere private owner.
hip of land abutting on the shor.
is relatively unimporlant. II rail
way company thus secures access BY
| trestle and wharf to The deep-watei
channel, it may conveniently cstab,
lish its terminal yards, stations
warehouses, and elevators WHEREBY
| ar in the eliminated tract it can Sc
| cure title, and extended frontage OF
the tidal flats is of no particular ad
vantage. AS 1900 acres in tn,
tract eliminated still remain one,
| 10 entry the prospect Of monop
Is in ore railroad company is mos
remote. | submit to fair-mindet
| men who may have been disturbed
| over charges made in respect to thu
| executive order of October %, 1910
that it has been demonstrated b.
the foregoing that no public inter
| est has suffered from its issue; tina
4
great good may come from it; ant
that no dishonest or improper mo
tive Is needed to explain it. might
| therefore, stop here, but rather fol
the purpose OF the moral to b.
drawn from them than to vindicat'
the order, propose to consider thu
attacks upon the order that misin
formation, hysteria or ranchor hal
prompted.
The charge has been made tina
this was a secret order, and tina
| though ii was made in October
1910, no one knew of it until April
1911 This is utterly unfounded
| The statement of Mr.. Vernon IRE
cord exhibit the correspondent o.
the Post-Intelligencer, of Seattle, ;
| newspaper of wide circulation a.
mong a people most interested ii
Alaska, shows that 10 days before
the order was made, news of the de.
tails Ryan's application and the
probability of its being granted was
given wide publicity. 1t further ap.
pears from the records of the Inter.
Tor Department that the evening the
order was signed, October 20, 1910
a full notice of the issue of the order
and its details was furnished by the
department to all correspondents In
the form of news bulletin. Final.
ly, the agent OF the Associated Pres:
certifies that at 1923 p m, October
rs, 1910, there was sent out by that
association to all it's newspaper eli.
ents telegram taken from a type
written statement issued by the In
terror Department rs follows,
Washington, October % ----
proximately 1880 acres of land in
the Chugach National Forest Alas
ka. have been restored by the Presi-
dent for disposition under appro-
PIRATE land laws, according to in-
formation made public today by the
interior Department. These lands
are situated on the coast line of Con-
troller Bay In Southern Alaska
naaf .ha Cunniugham Gleln.g anu