The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 110, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911 Page: 2 of 8
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THCRSDAY, Jl I,V 27. 1011.
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reserved.
All $6.00 Low Shoes tor
All $5.00 Low Shoes for
All $4.00 Low Shoes for
$3.00
All
$3.50 Low Shoes for
$1.75
$2.50
All
$3.00 Low Shoes for . . . .
$1.50
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All
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. .. $1.00
TABLE NO. 1
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TABLE NO. 2 TABLE IMO. 3 TABLE DIO. 4
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NAPIER BROTHERS
Successors to ENID BOOTERY
m OPENING OF ALASKAN LANDS
SPECIAL MESSAGE
TRANSMITTED TODAY
BRANDS "DICK TO DICK" LET-
TER«MALICIOUS FALSEHOOD
PRESIDENT SAYS ENTRY TO TRACT IS
TROL BY RESTRICTIONS
Washington. July 27.—r res dent
Taft Bent a special message to the
senate today shouldering full respon
nihility for opening for settlement
and develoixnent 12,800 acres of the
Chugach National Forest Kcsenv |r
Alaska—an incident which has be-
come to be kno^n as the "Controllei
Hay Affair." In concluding he
brands the now famous "Dick tc
Dick" postscript as a "wicked fn
hrlcation" any says that Charles 1'
Taft, whose name appeared in tin
alleged postscrlps. ' has no Interes
in Alaska, never had, and know?
nothing of the circumstances con-
nected with this transaction." More
over, the president adds his hrothc
does not oven rememl>er that he ever
met Richard S. Ryan, represontinr
the Controller Ra.ilway & N'avaga
tlon company.
As for eliminating the land in
question from the reserve, the presi-
dent says that there is no danger
of the Controller Railway & N'avaga-
1ios company or any other interests
monopolizing the field, and nothing
to show that this company is In nny
way connected with the Morgan-Oug..
freolielm interests. TTence. he be-
lieves that in eliminating the land
i e lias acted for the beat interests
of the nation.
Taft Takes Hck|k nislbillty.
"1 wish to l>e a speciC.c ns possible
upon this point," says the president
in his message, "and to say that 1
alone am responsible for the en-
largement of the proposed elimina-
tion from 320 acres to 12.S00 acres,
and that I proposed the change and
stated my reasons therefor. The
tiling which the Terrtiory of Alaska
needs Is development, and where
rights and franch.' scs can be properly
granted'to encourage Investment and
construct a railroad without confer.,
riqg exclusive privileges, I believe it
to be In accordance with good policy
to grant them."
Accompanying the president's
message are documents, reports and
maps bearing on the case, as re-
quested from h. in by a senate resolu-
tion of June 27th last. "I deem it
wise." savs the message, "to accom-
panying the submission of these docu-
ments with a statement in narrative
form of the action of the admlnlstra*
tlon with the reasons therefor."
Here follows a description of Con-
troller Rav and environs and a map
showing the effect of withdrawing
^he much mooted 12,800 acres from
ihe reserve. The president then
'akes up the thread of his nnrrntive
ns concerns the events that precipi-
tated the controversy.
Tie relates how Ryan, repr. senting
♦he Controller Railway R Navagation
•ompany. applied In 1000 for the
dlminatlon of a tract to enable this
sompany to secure railroad termi-
nals. etc. The application wns refer-
red to the forestry bureau nnd then
to the navy department with a view
'hat perhaps the navy desired to use
Controller Ray as a reservation. The
forestry interests found no objection
to the elimination of the tract lnd|.
eated. "or indeed." as the president
writes, "to the ollmlnat on of 1R,-
000 acres In the northwest shore of
Controller Bay."
The navy department's answer
was "negative" says the president,
and after the matter had been con-
sidered hi he secretary of agricul-
ture. by the secretary of the Inter-
ior and the general land offce. a
recommendation was made to him
that 320 acres with a frontage of
1C0 rods on the northwest shore of
Controller Hay be thrown open A
formal order of this effect was fi-
nally submitted to him in October,
1010, but when the matter came be-
fore the cabinet late in that month
lie found objection to it. His rea-
sons for takiug tU.s stand he explains
in hi s message in part as follows:
I expressed dissatisfaction with
the order because it purported on its
face to make the elimination for the
benof.t of a railroad company of a
tract of land which the company
could not by lawful entry secure, for
it was a tract 320 acres in one body
when 9nly 160 acres could thus be
acquired. In the second place, I
preferred to make a much larger eli-
mination of a tract facing the entire
channel and with sufficient room
for a termfoial railway town. I was
willing to do this because I found
the restrictions In the law sufficient
to prevent the possibility of any mo-
nopoly of either the upland or the
harbor or channel by the Controller
Railway and Navagation Company
or any other persons or company.
Recause of a lack of time sufficient
to draft a memorandum myself, 1
requested the secretary of the j-uterj
lor. Who, with the secretary of ag-
riculture, after full discussion, had
agreed In my conclusion, to prepare
a letter setting foTth the reasons for
making the larger elimination
that It might become a part of the
record.
"I wish to be as spec,fir as possi-
ble upon this point, and to say that
1 alone am responsible for the en-
largement of the proposed elimina-
tion from 320 acres to 1 2.800 acres
and that l proposed the change and
stated my reasons therefor, nnd whflle
both >secretnries oordlally concur-
red in It the suggestion was mine."
Relieved Action Was in Oood FftWi.
The president says he had every
assurance at the time that the Con-
troller Railway & Navagation com-
pany was an independent enterprise
working all In good faith, and that
no evidence 10 the contrary has since
been brought to his attention. "Of
cours«> it was poss hie." he continues,
"that the owners of the Copper River
Railway company" (Messrs Morgan
nnd Guggenheim) "might attempt to
buy this railroad when and if H were
built. It was possibly that Mr. Ryan
was acting for t*he interests of the
Copper River railroad, a'lthough I
did not believe It: but whether this
was true or not It was clear that the
order of elimination by reason of
the restrictions of the act of congress
would not permit the owners of
either railroad to shut out other
capital.sts," Moreover, he states tne
rates to be charged would be always
subject to congressional control, and
If government owneiship seemed the
wise policy under the peculiar cir-
cumstances condemnation was an
easy method.
"I am ns strongly convinced as
nnyone of the ne^'esslty for conser-
vation of our national resources,"
says the president, ami a.s much op-
poecd as anyone to their monojwi-
'cation by large corporations, but my
convictions on this point did not
deter me from taking the step which
I hoped might lead to encouraging
the construction of a rai.lway from
Controller Hay to the Bering coal
fields. I thought tin* paring down
Of the amount of public lead to be
acquired for terminals by the railway
compnny proposing to build the rail-
road was a poor policy and oue not
calculated to secure investment or
speedy construction."
The president goes ou to explain
that there are iron bound limitations
coveriug tne method for securing
title for government lands and for
this reason he feels no fear of any
interest obtaining a monopoly. Hrief-
ly the restrict.ons are:
Kirst: Not more than 100 acres
can tie entered in a single body by
fieri p.
Second: Xo location of scrip
along any navigable river or other
waters can be made within eighty
rods of any lands along su< U waters,
and no entry can be aKowed extend-
ing more than 100 rods along the
shore of any navigable water: and
along such shore a space of at least
eighty rods must be reserved from
entry between all such claims.
Third: Nothing in the act con-
tained is to be construed to authorize
entries to be made or title to be ac-
qu fed to the shore of any navigable
waters within the district.
OppurtNii.Hty for Monopoly destroyed.
"The whole contention that the
executive order and the opening to
settlement of the shore of Controller
Bay grants a monopc/ly to the rail-
way company," he resumes, "rests on
harbor gives no right to reach the
harbor except as congress may ex-
pressly give it, clearly the Controller
Railway & Navagation company has
not tne slightest opportunity for ex-
clusive appropriation of the harbor
facilities unless congress shall by
future act deliberately and voluntary1
ily confer it."
Having explained in detail lite rea-
sons for opening up the land in ques-
tion. the president takes occasion to
answere several incidental criticisms. ,
"Theordor has been criticised because
it was not in the form of a procla-
mation, Instead of an order," he'
wr tes. This wes determined by Mr.
Graves, the forester, he exp'alns. and j
he quotes a letter of Mr. Graves to
the effect that when a comparatively
small area is eliminated from a na-
tional forest the executive order Is
very commonly used instead of a
proclamation.
Secret Order Was Not Made.
As to the charge made on the floor
of the senate that the order was
secret, the president says, "This was
utterly unfounded." In support of
this, he savs that ten days before the
order was made the details of Ryan's
application and the probability of its
being granted were given wide pub-
licity. He cftes nn account In this re-
spect that The Associated Press car-
ried an account of the matter Octo-*
her 28th, 1910. ns taken fiVm a t>l>e-
written statement issued by the
Interior depai\ment.
The order has also been cr tlcised.
he says, on the ground that It did not
contain provision delaying its tak-
ing effect for thirty days after its
publication, as orders restoring 'lar.d
to settlement by homesteaders fre-
quently do. Tn this respect the presi-
dent "An examination of the record
of the record furnishes an explana-
tion that it wns made to afford tor-
made. When In October the two de-
partments had agreed with my ac-
qulesence that the order should be an
elimination of only 320 acres. • * * *
it was deemed wise to spread on the
face of the order a specific declara-
tion that it was made to afford ter-
minals for the Controller Rnllway &
Navigation company, and as no one
order. Wnen I directed the striking
out of the reference to the railway
com pay and the enlargement of the
area from 320 acres to 12,800 acres,
the form of the order In its provision
for .mmediate restoration was not
changed. I have no doubt that this
was the reason why the order Issued
took the form it did. Had tne post-
ponement Clause been suggested. I
would, doubtless, have directed it to
be embodied in the order. But the
event has proven that it was really
not important in this case, for in
now nearly nine months only tin
Controller Railway & Navag;.\on
company has made any scrip entries
on the eliminated tract."
The "IHck to Dick" Letter.
Taking up the "Dick to Dick" epi-
sode the president says in conclu-
sion:
"Before closing, I desire to allude
to a clrcumstanco wnich the terms
(Continued on i*uge Six)
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Wright, M. H. The Enid Daily Eagle. (Enid, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 110, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 27, 1911, newspaper, July 27, 1911; Enid, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metapth350503/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.