New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-25
CONTROLLER BAY F|ASCO
Widely HeraIded Investigation
Put OF for Reasons"
WITNESSES WERE WAITING
Anxious to Testify, but Com.
mittee Found Necessary
Reports Were Tied Up"


Washington. July IA final echo NJ the
explosion Of the Controller Bay fake was
heard here to-day, when Chairman Graham
Of the committee which started an investi-
CATION Of this latest Alaskan controversy
officially admitted that the committees
hearings are 10 he abandoned for the pres
ent. Chairman Graham says the inquiry
viii he resumed I'm earnest about the mid
die Of October.
BY that time. explains the democratic
spokesman. the committee will have had
time TO digest the records which are TO be
referred to by the President In his answer
to the Poindexter resolution. The commit
tee is 10 hold another meeting to identity
and order printed these records, and 'then
tho scandal hunters will spend month or
so In rehabiitating their case. Mean"hlie
Louis Brandeis. volunteer attorney VIII
wind up his affairs in Boston and VIII be
I'm shape to give the cause the oxygen
treatment along in october.
The important witnesses have all oeen
excused, Notwithstanding the fact that
they remained around Washington Tor
weeks. awaiting an opportunity to oe
heard while the Democratic investigators
heard irrelevant testimony and attempted
to keep up public interest by promising
future sensations" These witnesses have
no idea when they will he called, II ever.
They NAV never he called. II is quite
probable Miss Abbott will not he.
Tho committees determination 10 halt It's
hearings comes just prior 10 the fFes'-
dents explanation. which will GO to the
Senate on Wednesday. Chairman Graham'
I'm extenuatlon Of such unexpected action
says the committee had little TO 40 ne
cause the records were all tied up In ire
departments. but In his official confirmation
of what Washington has suspected LOT
DAYS. the chairman failed to note that
Richard 8. Ryan. Ashmun Brown Don
Carr. Secretary Fisher, Miss ABBOTT anu
others IMPLICATED in the "Dick-to-Dick
ALLEGATIONS have been on hand, waiting TO
testify.
II is gathered incidentally that when the
investigation is resumed lin OCTOBER IL ~
10 he "a general probe Of the entire A'ae-
kan situation and the effort made to gran
tho valuable resources of that district
This Is regarded as the first step toward
tho gradual dimming Of the Controller Bay
scare. the tentative plan being to nave the
nublic forget Controller Bay, the Dlch-to-
Dick postscript and Miss Abbott VINO
claims ia have seen il. while the committee
cries wolf" in another direction. II the
nublic - not insistent, after three
months lapse of the hearings the NY w
zeal postscript and the alleged graz ue'''iu
il may never be mentioned again
Ashmun Blown. formerly secretary 10 SCI
rotary RaIlinger and later secretary 10 SCI
rotary Fisher. and who, according 70 MISS
,bhott showed her the file in which she
found the Dick to Dick postscripts, at'er
waiting in Washington three weeks lot an
onnortunity TO refute her assertions peloie
the investigating committee, has issued d
settlement In which he gives some interest
ING Information regarding the commuhlcd
t,on 70 which. according to Miss ABBOTT t'e
mythical postscript was attached MI
Brown says:
As for the Dick TO Dick" fake. the hrst
eyer heard goowi of Miss Sss Abbos publication
I on mo tell the record of the letter OF Juls
Il. 1910. TO which she says the postscript
was attached by fastener. 800.
According to the receiving stamp the Iet-
tor-a formal one to the Secretary or the
Interior. describing the railroad project III
whose interest the elimination was asked
was received in the office or the Secretdr!
~ the Interior on July IA, 1910. Nearly d
week before that Secretary Ballihser ""u
departed for the West. c..,.
Don NJ Carr. secretary TO the SecretarS
Knowing that the whole matter was peioIc
the President, after opening i.n a tba note OF
transmittal, TO Charles ID. Norton, seCre-
tary to the President at Beverly. Inc Iet !
ter remained in the President mes uIiti.
I hon wi
l'ietters and papers on the subject. IT was re-
turned to the Office of the Secretary OF the
Interior. 49,. .,s
Is ii at all probable that Mr.. Carr would
have sent such a postscript 10 Mr.. Norton
If II accompanied the letter on arrival :
Also is IL at all probable that the White
House would have permitted SUCH an amaL-
ing thing as that to go back to the Interior
The whole file came back TO me, and re,
NAMED on my desk until | resigned ana
left the department at the close or business
on Nav 81 In the meantime MISS Aobott
arrived on the scene with a letter of intro
duction TO Secretary Fisher from Norman
Uapgood editor of Collier s. Inc sec
rotary turned her over TO me. with instruc-
lions to let her see the files and papers
i'm the Controller Bay matter. This | did.
she examining them at my desk. verbally
! gave her n history OF the whole matter
Illustrating from time 10 time by reference
10 papers I'm the files. In doing so ] often
turned many pages at a time. but II was
with no intent TO deceive or withhold mat
ter from her And then ] gave her all the
papers 10 go over
She did not mention to me the discovery
Of the Dick TO Dick" postscript | did
not see IT i'm going over the papers with her.
/ am confident that il never existed there
at all.
Unoficially, we have the testimony OF
RYAN that he never wrote such post
! script: of the President that Charles +.
! Taft never spoke to him on the subject; OF
| RYAN that he does not know Charles /.
| Taft. hut not yet has the Graham commit
tee permitted any Of this TO go into the
record Why?