The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-22

| CO1n1nanQ1ng . access to the coal lands.
 President Roosevelt. fully realizin . the importance of this water fror
 to the public, upon discovery of th
 preliminary moves by R. tS Rya ana the Morgan-Guggenheim syndicat
 to acquire it, on February 23, 19O
 l placed it beyond the reach of the Ian
 grabbers by proclamation includin,
 IL Tn the Chugach National Forest.
 On the 2Oth of April 1911, the coun
 try was shocked to learn that on tn
 2Sth of October. 1910, President Taf
 mad signed an Executive order. re 1 verslng the action of President Roose
 Welt, and throwing open 12,S00 acre
 or land, covering the water front O Controller Bay, the only availabl
 natural harbor affOrding an approach
 to the coal fields in which were To-
 cated the fraudulent Cunningham
 claims
 It was the usual practice of Presi-
 uent Roosevelt and of other Presi.
 gents, whenever they restored public
 land to entry and sale, to do so by
 proclamation, not by Executive or
 der, and to include in such proclama-
 tlon provision that the land thus | restored to entry and sale should not
 De subject to entry for 50 days after the date of proclamation restoring it I 10 entry, thus giving ample public mo-
 t1ce to all people who might desire 10 He on such lands.
 These Executive precedents were vio- ana restoring the Controller Bay
 lands to private entry. This the Fresldent did by secret Executive or oer and not by proclamation.
 MT. Fred Dennett, Commissioner of
 the General Land Office, testified Ju-
 " 10. 1911. before the House Commit
 tee on Expenditures in the Depart
 ment of the Interior that the Execu-
 tlVe order, as originally prepared for the Presidents signature, contained the usual 6O-day notice to prospective set tiers. but was omitted from the Ex- ecutlve's order when finally signed
 py the President. a
 An Executive order is not necessar- ny published. A proclamation is. An executive order restoring land to en- try IS merely transmitted to the land omces and to the heads of various bureaus. In this case the Executive order was issued October 2s. 1910. It was not made public. It was five oays thereafter before it was put in the mails to be transmitted to the land office of Juneau, Alaska
 rms IS what was being done in washington. Turn now to Alaska
 It is now known that on the very day the order was mailed in Washing. ton James J. Ryan, a brother of Rich ard Ryan, with dummy entrymen. went upon and began a survey of the ianos fronting on Controller Bay and hied upon the particular water front which commands practically the one stltutes the key to the coal fields in which were located the Cunningham claims.
 That he knew in advance that there was scheme afoot here in Washing ton to withdraw the Controller Bay lands from the forest reserve and throw them open to entry, that he vas advised step by step as the scheme was consummated, and re- ,elVed advice direct from Washington ne very day the President signed the 'rder, seems beyond question. The learest telegraph station is 100 miles rom Controller Bay. James J. Ryan must have had all preparations made. I l1s surveyors engaged and in waiting !. ma ready to move when the word anne from Washington.
 Why the President did not issue a reclamation and make his release of /. nese lands public remains a mystery. | Why there was omitted from his l rder opening these lands to entry I ne 60-day provision, within which no t ing could be made upon these lands J not known. f How James J. Ryan secured infor- P lation far enough in advance to en- n ble him to be on the ground at Con. a 'oiler Bay ready to enter upon those mas as soon as the order was sign- U may appear later n Just what may be the relation. if a ny, of Dick Ryan and James J. Ryan II the Morgan -Guggenhein interests | O. le real parties back of the Cunning te m conspiracy, will doubtless ulti- e' ately be proven. b. low the President was induced to : verse, set aside, and annul the action u ms predecessor, and that, too, by IS course or proceeding which exclud- e:
 the public and opened the way ul favored parties to get possession tn
 this strategic position at Control al Bay. may never be known. gr whether the protracted delay of the w lnnlngham decision had any rela. ar m 10 the successful grabbing of the tn ntroller Bay lands may appear when ar
 the facts have been uncovered by ba g Investigation on But, MT. President, there is ahso- Yt ely no doubt that parties to the en al-land frauds we'll knew that. next drl securing the Cunningham claims, ol! le to the lands on Controller Bay uld place them in commanding re' sition over all the coal fields in go estion. pls ieir to the Roosevelt policies as Re 'sldentlal candidate MT. Taft was SCI pronounced progressive and the ha ohO iilOSI ROOS6- @iAS champion from the first to the COT day of the campaign. 1t hree months before he was inau- is 'ated Roosevelt's Cabinet seemed jus tain of being retained by Taft. org rec months after he was inaugural he seemed to have forgotten that att re ever had been any weIl-known inc osevelt policies. gov e had no sooner taken his oath of ser ,e than he sacrificed the nrogres- put cause for the support of AIdrich Ii
 Cannon and their reactionary pro- wei m. life ebuked at the polls in the election gen -910, he foolishly tried to buy back hay postoflice appointments the SUD- hay of the progressives in Congress. Ags ch he had lost when he abandon and policies. eve
 the same spirit he is now seeking be regain the lost confidence of thA opp lie by Cabinet changes. in the A 2 that the people will forget. No le Presidents course has been va mea ting and without definite policy is n use, apparently, there has been It i ughout his administration no deep for fiction other than the hour ynakes betv ,ar expedient. erat s conduct of the pending legisla-
 IS of the same kind and quality POS hat which has narLed t;s ~,ho1oI