El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-07-27


vestment or speedy construction"
Iron Bound Limitations.
The president goes on to explain
that there aNe iron bound limitations
covering the method for securing title
for government lands, and for this rea-
son he feels no fear OF any interest OBJ
tanning monopoly. Briefly the re-
strictions are:
First: Not more than 100 acres can
be entered in a single body by scrip.
Second: No location of scrip along
any nayigable 1iver or other waters
can be made within so rods of any
lands along such waters, and no entry
can be allowed extending more than
$50 rods along the shore of any nav
igable water; and along such shore a
space Of at least so rods must be re-
served from entry between all such
claims.
Third: Nothing In the act contained
is to be construed to authorize entries
to be made or title to be acquired to
the shoYe Of any navigable waters
within the district.
The Whole. Contention.
THE whole contention that the ex-
ecutive order and the opening to set
Element Of the shore OF Controller bay
grants monopoly to the railway COM
pany," he resumes, rests on & claim
that It has given an opportunity to
persons using scrip to appropriate the
control of the only available and prac-
ticable parts Of the channel by the To-
cation OF the scrip opposite to those
parts II now the location of the scrip
opposite to the harbor gives no right
TO reach the harbor except as congress
may. expressly give 1t, clearly the Con-
troller Railway & Navigation company
has not the slightest opportunity for
exclusive appropriation Of the har-
Dor facilities unless congress shall by
future act deliberately and voluntarily
confer it"
Having explained in detail his rea-
sons for opening up the land in ques-
ton, the president takes occasion to
answer several incidental criticisms
The order has been criticised because
1t was not in the form Of a proclama-
ton, instead of an order" he writes
This was determined by Mr. Graves,
the forester. he explains. and he quotes
a letter OF Mr.. Graves to the effect that
when a comparatively small area is
eliminated from national forest the
executive order is very commonly used
instead Of a proclamation
As to the charge made on the floor
OF the senate that the order was secret
the president saws 'This was utterly
unfounded." In support Of this. he
says that 10 days before the order was
made the details of Ryan's application
and the probability of it's being grant
ed We're given wide publicity He
cites in this respect that the Associated
Press carried an account Of the matter
October %, 1910, as taken from a tyne
written statement issued by the in
terror department.
The s.Dick to Dick, Affair.
Taking up the Dick to Dick" cpl
sode, the president says in conclusion:
Before closing, 1 desire to allude to
circumstance. which the terms of this
resolution make apt and relevant It
is a statement by one Miss NJ F. Abb
bolt that in an examination of the files
OF the interior department a few weeks
ago, she found a postscript attached to
a letter of July 13, 1910, addressed by
Rihcard S. Ryan to secretary Bal
inger-and in the present record-urg-
ing the elimination of land enough
for terminals for the Controller Rail-
way & Navigation company The
postscript was said to read as follows:
Dear D.:
I went to see the president the other
day. He asked me who it was I repre-
sented. told him according to our
But this did not seem to satisfy him.
So I sent for Charlie Taft and asked
him to tell his brother, the president,
who it was ] really represented The
president made no further objection to
my claim. Yours.
The postscript is not now on the
files of the department. If it were 1t
would be my duty to transmit 1t under
this resolution. 1 do not transmit it,
not only for the reason that 1t is not
now On the files of the department but
for the reason that it never
was on the files OF the Department, at
least as an authentic document Who
is really responsible for its wicked
fabrication If it ever existed, or for the
yfciously false statement made as to
its authenticity. is inma terial for the
purposes of this communication. The
purport Of the postscript is, and the in
tention Of the fabricator was to make
Richard S. Ryan testify through it's
words to the public that although 1
was at first opposed in the public in
terest to granting the elimination
which he requested. nevertheless
through the undue influence of my
brother, Charles P. Taft, and the dis
closure OF the real PERSONS in interest,