The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-07-28

been demonstrated by the foregoing that no public interest has suffered from it's issue. that great good may come from it and that no dishonest oi improper motive is needed to explain it l might. therefore. stop here: but. rather. for the purpose of the mora to be drawn from them than to yin d1cate the order. propose to consider the attacks upon the order that hys ter1a or rancOr has prompted.
 Order Was Made Public.
 The charge has been made that this was secret order and that though it was made in October. 1910, no one knew it until April. 1911. This Ut terly unfOunded. The statement oi MT. Vernon. the correspondent of the Post-Intelligencer of Seattle, a news paper of wide circulation among peo pie most interested in Alaska, shows that ten days before the order was made news of the details of Ryan'S application and the probability of its being granted was given wide public fty. It further appears from the rec ords of the interior department that the evening the order was signed, Oct 2S, 1910, full notice of the issue O1 the order and its details was furnish ed by the department to all core spondents in the form of a news but letin. Finally the agent of the Asso ciated Press certifies that at 7:23 p. m.. Oct. 2S. 1910. there vase sent out b. that association to all its newspaper clients telegram taken from a type written statement issued by the in terior department as follows:
 Washington Oct 2S.-Approximately l2 300 acres of land in the Chugach National forest. Alaska- have been restored by the president foI disposition under appropri- ate land laws, according to information made public today by the interior depart ment. These lands are situated on the coast line of Controller bay. in southern Alaska. near the Cunningham claims, and have been found upon examination to be of little value for forestry purposes.
 It would be difficult to prepare an advertisement more informing to the public or more likely to attract the at tention of all likely to desire acquisi don of land on Controller bay. On the 20th the chief forester sent telegram making similar announcement to his district forester at Portland. Ore.
 The order has been attacked on the ground that It did not contain a pro vision delaying its taking effect for thirty days after it's publication, as orders restoring land to settlement by homesteaders frequently do. s An ex animation of the record furnishes an explana tion of this feature of the or der as made When in October the two departments had agreed. with my acquiescence. that the order should be an elimination of only 32O acres aD order describing the 32O acres. direct ing its restoration to settlement and containing the usual provision post poning its taking effect thirty days was prepared in the forestry bureau and forwarded to the interior depart ment. There it was deemed wiser to spread on the face of the order spe- cific declaration that 1t was made to afford terminals for the Controller Railway and Eaviga tion company, and as no one else was expected to inter vene and take mp any part of the eIiln
 
 mated tract the restoration was mad, immediate.
 Approved by Secretary.
 The form thus amended was submit ted to the secretary of agriculture. who expressed his preference for the i'm mediate restoration order through his solicitors memorandum on the face of the order. as follows:
 MT. Clements. Assistant Attorney In the Interior Department-We think this O. F. The secretary says 1t Is the direct wa and appeals to him
 GEORGE P. MCABE
 The idea of the secretary doubtle> was that the short form of order W; preferable because on it's face it W directly indicative of the purpose secure an opportunity to the railw; company by proper entry 10 settle the land eliminated and as no one el> was expected 10 intervene no postpon. ment was needed Accordingly whe the case came for decision in the cabE net the ordor was without any pos