The Cairo bulletin., 1911-07-27

| poses.
n would be difficult to prepare an
advertisement more informing to the
public or more likely to attract the
attention of all likely to desire ac-
QUESTION of land on Controller Bay |
On the 29th, the Chief Sorester sent
! a telegram making similar an
nouncement to his district forester
at Portland. Greg.
The order has been attacked onl
the ground that it did not contain a
provision delaying its tagging effect
| for 80 days after its publication as
orders restoring land to settlement
| hy homesteaders frequently do. An
vamination of the record furnishes
W oypla0atlon oJ This feature of the
| lyder as made When in October
! The two departments had agreed |
| yith my acquiscence, that the order
| houid be an elimination of only 800
ores, an order describing the 800
| afres DIRECTING its restoration to SET
| llement and containing the usualI
! provision postponing its effect 21
days was prepared in the Forestry
Bureau and forwarded to the Inter
| ior Department. There it was deem
ed wiser to spread on the face of the
order a specific declaration that it
was made to afford terminals for the
1 Controller Railway & Navigation
! NA and as no one else was expected
to intervene and take up any part OF
the eliminated tract, the restoration
vas made immediate.
/ The form thus amended was sub
mitted to the Secretary of Agricul-
cure, who expressed his reference
| for the immediate restoration order
through his solicitors memorandum
on the face Of the order, as follows.
NJ, Clemments,
[Assistent Attorney in the In
terror Department.;
We think this o. X. The secreta-
~ says it is the direct way, and APP
pa2ls to him.
Geo. P. McCabe
The idea of the Secretary doubt
r less was that the short form of or
g der was preferable because on IT.
: faco It was directly indicative Of the
purpose to secure an opportunity to
= the railway company by proper en-
: try to settle on the land eliminated
9 and rs no one else was expected IL
intervene no ostponcmnRt was
d needed Accordingly when the cas-
G came for decision in the Cabinet, the
6 order was without any postponemen'
r clause This was the form sent m
n for my signature by the Acting Sec
!; retary OF the Interior Department
When l directed the striking ou
y Of the reference to the railway com
SC pany and the enlargement OF TIL
K area from 800 acres to IL, 500 acrae
J. the form of the order in its provi
If sion for immediate restoration VIZ
q not changed. | have no doubt tina
r this was the reason why the Crde
- ssued took the form it did. Hat
l. the pos pouepenc clause bean sag
y gested, | would, doubtless, have di
ar rected it to be embodied in the order
D. Put the event has proven that j
g was really not important in thi
" case, for in now nearly nine month
E. only the Controller Railway & NAY
N gation Co. has made anyscrip en-
i tries on the eliminated tract an
II this, although 1900 acres, and
y miles of water front still renal
l open to entry, and there are severa
81 different railway companies in ad
ID dition to the Controller Railway
ID Navigation Co. that had filed locas
10 tons for rights of way in the vici
Q nifty in the last two years who hav
~ had in the last nine months the ful
= lest notice of their opportunity
al they wished to enter on this land
ID Dick to Dick" Letter.
D. Before closing, | desire to allud
Z. to a circumstance which the term
Or of this resolution make apt and rele
DC want. 1t is a widely published state
te ment attributed to newspaper cor
he respondent that in an examinatio
n of the files of the Interior Depart
as ment few weeks ago postserip
was found attached to letter o
at July 10, 1910, addressed by MI
at Richard s. Ryan to Secretary Balm
r, ger--and In the present record-ur
H. ging the elimination of land enoug
d. for terminals for the Controlle
e. Railway & Navigation CO. TIL
Of postscript was said to read as fol
a lows:
A. Dear Dick;
m | went to see the President tn
'e other day. He asked me who it wa
D. | represented. / told him accordin
le to our agreement, that | represent
Is ed myself. But this didn't seem t
D satisfy him. So / sent for Charl
r Taft and asked him to tell his bro
le ther, the President, who it was
y, really represented The Presiden