The Washington times., 1911-07-14
WAR DEPARTA TAENT
MAP Of CONTROLLER
BAY NOW MISSING
Witness Blandly Tells the
Graham Committee 1t
/. Has Disappeared.
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have been made at Controller Bay and
transported to Washington in that time.
She at once scented another gross ir-
regularity, and took careful note of the
facts.
But she did more. She went to Git-
ford Pinchot and told him the story Of
her find She wanted a witness, and
so next day Mr.. Pinchot went to the
War Department and examined this
map.
Today. Major ]. B. Cavanaugh, as
sistant chief of the Engineering Bureau
OF Rivers and HarborS at the War De-
partment. was before the Graham conf
mirtec. He had been directed to bring
all maps. charts. etc, involving this
region.
He brought plenty; but not the one
that Miss Abbott discovered or or ebout
June /: not the one that had made the
marvellous, magic-carpct trip from
Alaska to Washington in time that beat
the best efforts IF Jules Verne.
He was asked about that map and re-
piled that there was no such map there.
But Miss Abbott says she saw it
there" insisted the chairman.
Major CavanauEh was sure it was not
there.
There must be a mistake" he said.
Miss Abbott may have seen some map
that had been deposited there. or left
briefly; hut no such map has been legal
~ filed"
Miss Abbott didn't know about that;
all she was sure OF was that she had
seen the map there; it was shown her
ho oF he =
seemed important to her because its
date, December 10, proved that there
was crooEedness She wanted a witness,
and she sent Mr.. Pinchot to see it.
He, she says. will bear out her story.
May Call Pinchot
She will need the witness. The Ad
ministration policy of denying what
ever Miss Abbott says will be applied
in this case, no doubt; Major Cava-
naugh applied it, in fact. by insisting
there was no such map.
Clifford Pinchot's name was added to
the list of distinguished witnesses who
will tell interesting stories before the
case closes.
In the last hours of the last session
Congress passed. special act granting
rights to the Richard S. Ryan Railroad
Company TO use valuable territory on
Controller bay, Alaska. adjacent to the
lands that were donated as a result of
the Executive order of President Taft
last October.
This law was lobbied through Con-
gress by Ryan. He worked on 1t dill
gently all last winter, and the President
signed it on March T. the last day of the
existence of the Sixty-frst Congress.
The hill which granted these i'm
mensely valuable rights was introduced
February H. 1911, by Representative
Walter I. Smith of Iowa. The story of
this legislation is highly Illuminating in
70 the Guggenheim seizure of Controller
bay.
Piles Part
1t was introduced in the Senate by
Piles of Washington, who before he
became a Senator was attorney for one
of the Alaska steamship companies con-
trolled by the Guggenheims.
BY the Presidents Executive order of
October %. 1910, Ryan was given op-
portunity 10 enter the shore lands OF
Controller Bay. But between the mean
der line Of these lands, anG the deep
water, was a strip of low tide flats
about two miles wide. These tide fats
were not covered by the Executive or
der. They could only be secured by
sn act of Congress.
The claims on the shore line were