The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-27

July IS, 1910, addressed by Mir. Richard S. Ryan to Secretary Bal linger-and In the present record urging the elimination of land en- ough for terminals for the Controller Railway and Navigation Company. The postscript was said to read as follows:
 Dear D.
 l want to see the President the other day. He asked me who it was II represented. I rold him accord ling to our agreement, that repre-. |sented myself. But this didn't seem Ito satisfy him. So I seat for Char lie Taft and asked him to tell his brother, the President, who 1t was l really represented. The President made no further objection to my claim. Yours,
 DICK. The postscript is not now on the lilies of the department. If it were lit would be my duty to transmit 1t under this resolution. do not transmit it. not only for the reason that it is not now on the filesI of the department, but for the reason that it never was on the files of the de- pertinent, at least as an authentic document. Who is really responsible flor it's wicked fabrication if it ever existed, or for the viciously false abatement made as to it's authenticity, lis immaterial fo9 the purposes of lInis communication. The purport of Ithe postscript is, and the intention lof the fabricator was, to make MT. Richard S. Ryan testify through its words to the public that although | was at first opposed in the public Interest to granting the elimination which he requested, nevertheless, through the undue influence of my brother, MT. Charles P. Taft, and the disclosure of the real persons in interest. was induced improper. Fly and for the promotion of their private gain, to make the order. rThe statement, insofar as my. brother is concerned-and that is the chief feature of the postscript-is ut lterly unfounded. He never wrote to me or spoke to me in reference to Richard s. Ryan or on the subject of Controller Bay or the granting of any privileges or the making of any orders in respect to Alaska. He has
 no interest in Alaska, neyer htd, and knows nothing of the circum- stances connected with this transac- tion. He does not remember That he ever met Richard S. Ryan. He never heard of the Controller Bay Railroad, until my cablegram of in- quiry reached him, which, with his answer. is in the record.
 "The fact is that Mir. Ballinger Inev-f Saw the letter of July 13, 1910, to which this postscript is said to lhave been attached. It was sent to me by MT. Carr. Secretary Rallin- ger's private secretary, at Beverly, on July 1.-the next day. read the letter at Beverly in August with other papers and sent them to the White House. It was placed upon the White House files and remained there un. til April 22, 1911, when it was, by request of Secretary Fisher. return ed to the Interior Department, and l it was after this that Miss Abbott says she saw the letter with the
 postscript attached. MT. Carr saw no such postscript when he sent the letter to me. l did not see it when
 l read it. No one saw it in the ex-
 ecutiye office, but it remained to appear as postscript when Miss Ab- bolt saw the letter in April or May on the files of the Interior Depart Iment. All others were denied the sight. The person upon whose statement |the existence of what has been prop |erly characterized as an amazing postscript is based is writer for the newspapers and magazines. She was given permission by Secretary Fisher after consultation with me, to ex anime all the files in respect to the Controller Bay matter-and this un- der the supervision of Mir. Brown, then private secretary to the Secre- tary of the Interior. After the ex animation. at which she alleges she received this postscript from the hand of Mir. Brown, she prepared an elaborate article on the subject of this order and Controller Bay. which she submitted r Mr. Fisher, and which she discussed with MT. Fisher at length, but never in the conver- ton did she mention tho existence of the postscript. Mir. Brown, who was with her at the time and show ed her the files. testifies that there