The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1911-07-27
TAFT TAKESb[AME
FOR LAND ENTRY
DECLARES CONTROLLER BAY
CAN NOT BE AoN0p0LIZEn
UNDER ORDER ISSUED.
''DIcK To BIcE'' LETTER
Wicked Fabgicationsh says Prosi-
dents Brother Had No Con-
neotion With or knowledge
Of Matter at Issue.

Ma hue f1ly 26--Fnll re.
ie.sailit@ ies t!p oeeaine to set
ie afp tif eloitaen "a Sad
sc lt tfit ialfM,h National Forest
rosr5o in Iaska was shouldered
by President Taft in a special mes
sage translated to the senate late
Tonight Interest In the incident now
kn0w ae the Controller Bay affair
t9 which tte message related has
( hcen Keen
The reading Of the message held
the attention of all the senators
present Has no interest in Alaska
I md HAvar asd and knows nothing OF
the circumstances connected with
this transaction stated the mes
sage.
AS a wicked fabrication the
president denounced the famous
Dick to Dick post script,
Charles r. Taft, president asserted
does not even remember that he ever
net Richara S.. Ryan, representing
the Controller Railway and Nayi-
cation Co., who is alleged to have
written the "Dick to Dick communi-
cation to the then Secretary of In
terror Richard A. Ballinger.
Presidents MESSAGE.
The strar~e portion Of the mes
sage is as follows
The whole contention that the ex-
ecutive order and the opening to set
tlement of the shore of Controller
Bay grants monopoly to the rail-
way company rests on the claim that
Il has given an opportunity to per-
using scrip to appropriate the con-
troll of the only available and prae-
ticable parts of The channel by, the
location of the scrip opposite to
those parts. If now the location of
the scrip opposite to the harbor CIV
es no right to reach the harbor eX-
cept as Congress may expressly give
it, clearly the Controller Railway e
Navigation Co has not the slightest
opportunity for exclusive appropria-
tion of the harbor facilities unless
Congress shall by future act deliber-
ately and voluntarily confer it.
| should be lacking in candor if
allowed it to be inferred that this
third reason for saying that there
is not slightest danger OF this or
der giving monopoly of the channel
to the Controller Railway & Navi-
cation Co. was present in my mind
when | made the order. | was, of
course, satisfied because of the other
restrictions mentioned that no mo-
ropoly of the channel could follow,
hut did not examine the law as to
this point at that time. But the law
is as I have stated it, ard the con
s1uences are inevitable.
Tha owners of the Controller Bay
't~@v 4 Nav'gation Co. realized
the difficulty there might be in as
scrting a right abutting owners to
construct trestles and wharves on
he tidal flats to the channel, and
without even relying on the express
privilege conferred on railway COM
Danies to apply to the Secretary of
the Treasury for such permission,
Nlready quoted, went direct to Con-
9ress and secured from Congress ar
Hct which gives to the company ex-
Dressly q right Of way 200 feet wide
cross the tidal flats to the deep wa
ser; but this grant of an exclusive
easement Is carefully drawn and is
accompanied and surrounded with
every safeguard. Express power to
rereal 1t is reserved to Congress, and
the character and extent of the
-tructures on the channels are plac-
cd in the control of the War De-
partment upon recommendation Of
the Chief of Engineers. This ease
ment was granted in an act passed
March of this year (Stat. at Large,
p -, and only after full examina-
tion by the Interstate Commerce
Committee of the House after re-
-o~merdations by the War Depart
ment and the Interior Department
and a clarifying discussion in the
House of representatives.
In the records of the War Depart
ment will be found one permit to
construct a trestle from the Control
Ter Bay shore to the channel, which,
by extension, is still in force and
will remain so until January /, 1912.
This was given to the Controller
Bay G. Bering Coal Railway Co.. a.