Show BALLINGER REPORTS SECRETARY OF THE THC INTERIOR TELLS OF WORK OF HIS department STILL AFTER LAND THIEVES urge continuation of vigorous proe prose cution and a reclassification of the public domain issuance of reclamation fund bond bonds Advis advised edThe the indian bureau washington NOT noy 29 the annual report to the president of richard A ballinger secretary of the interior was made public to today day and makes make 1 in te resting reading the report co era a portion of at the time under tha the ad ministration ot at james 11 and mr ballinger gives him credit for or his earnest and efficient services secretary callenger comm comment puts on the old public land statutes and con can lenues the liberal and rapid disposition of the public lands under these statutes atutes et and the lax methods of administration bich for a long time prevailed nat aurally provoked the feeling that the public domain was legitimate prey for the unscrupulous and that it was no crimo to violate or circumvent the land lawe laws it la Is to ha be regretted that we as a nation were eo tardy to real lie ize tha importance of preventing so large a measure of our natural re sources pasting lato into the hands of land pirates and speculators specula tore with no view to development looking to the national nation welfare mut must continue prosecution prosecutions it may be safely said that millions of acres of timber and other landa lands have been unlawfully and it la 13 also true that actions i to recover such lands have in most instances long tons since been bersa barrea by the statute of limitations the principal awakening to our wasteful course came under your predecessors administration the bold and vigorous prosecution il atland frauds fraud through secretaries hitchcock Ilitch cock and garfield have restored a salutary respect for the law and the public mind has rapidly grasped the importance of safeguarding the further disposition of our national resources in the public land in the interest of the o 0 good aa as against private greed notwithstanding it Is necessary to continue with utmost vigor through all available sources the securing of information of violation violations of the publio land laws and to follow such viola eions with rigid prosecutions use private enterprise in in thia this present policy of conserving the natural resource resources of ot the public dolain main while development Is the tey key note the best thought of the day is pot not that development shall be by na dional agencies but that wise utillia lion tion shall be secured through private enterprise under national supervision and control therefore it material progress Is to be made la in securing the best use of our remaining public lands congress must be called upon to enact remedial legislation ab mr bir dallinger then gives in detail hie his recommendations for the clas classify sift cation tation of public lands and the feature tures of a measure which he advises for tho the direction of the disposal ot at water power sites the service concerning the reclamation service the report bays says in part in view of the importance at a speedy completion 0 of existing projects and their proper extension and of the necessity in n 1912 1 of an adjustment be alwen gween the states by which the major portion of the faro arising be sale of public lands within each state and territory shall have been ex so far as practicable within uch such state or territory and in view of the importance at 0 making a bene use of waters already ap nd or capable of flon tion to which rights may ie be lost for nonuse I 1 believe an urgent appeal should be made to congress 11 IQ authorize the issuance of of indebtedness or of at bonda bonds against th the reclamation fund tojin toan aggregate of not exceeding or so much thereof as may inay be nef needed energetic reorganization of the in dian than bureau ie to in progress says mr bir ballinger and he recommends that the indian warehouses at new now york 1 chicago omaha st SL louis and san francisco be closed as soon ae as pos ible A move advanced policy respecting spec ting the maintenance improve Im rove nent ment andl operation or the yellowstone and yosemite national park parks ie Is urged on the itte government covern ment |