Show MCABE TELLS ABOUT THE EVERGLADES Goes Before House Committee Committee Commit- Commit tee tee i to O Outline dine Position of Department WASHINGTON Feb 10 George iO-George George e eP j P P. P McCabe MCabe Cabe solicitor of the tho department dep of t a agriculture ne appeared 2 before the fhe house louse committee on ou expenditures in in hat that department d part ent today to outline the attitude of Secretary Wilson and himself him him- s sOil self with relation to the Florida over over- glades land Jand case the the charges of sup sup- pressed l reports made by Representatives Clark and B Bathrick and the discharge e of ot Chief Drainage Engineer 0 O. G. G Jl l. l jott llott and his his' assistant A. A A A. Moore Moore- b bouse louse use Mr Ir McCabe was called to Complete a 1 statement t he b hOgan began J n before t the e. e committee com corn early in the week weck preliminary to o th the tho inq inquiry iry which will rull ilI begin next I Tuesday It has bas be been n char charged ed before the committee committee com coin that a 2 report of J TI 0 p W Wright i a a. department engineer and n now low w drainage engineer for the state of florida was wa not printed in a a. senate document on the situation on in the everglades everglades everglades' ever ever- glades glades' until Wright had bad revised the proofs to conform with his original notes Sen Senator tor Fletcher o of Florida who had bad the tho er e everglade papers printed as as' asa a document document docu docu- ment mont declared tod today that the senate document does t does contain c the tho full report t made by J J. J O. O Wright and that it t tU U appears in in the document precisely as I lorder ordered fd set up an and printed printe by bp the thc proper officers of of- the department Wb Why publication of the report was stopped topped originally in in 1910 uno- Senator Fletcher r declared was not Known n. n Another ph phase sc to bo be i investigated ted by bythe bythe bythe the committee is why the circular on the everglades published by order of Engineer cr Elliott and afterward suppressed sup sop pressed it is said by order of oC S Secretary Wilson was vas not Dot printed in the sonata senate to document The r Elliott lliott said Senator Fletcher was as not put in senate document docu doeu ment m No 1 SO 89 because it was Tras never authorized authorized authorized au au- au b by tho the secretary but on the theother other hand as soon soon as he lic he saw aw a typewritten type type- typewritten written copy of the proposed C circular j be pc c condemned d it ordered that it be bo bonot benot benot not not printed or distributed d. d The rue reason it iJ ts' ts is supposed uP 9 n w s that f tho circular r tar x x d Op or off offered n d advice and dJ did not purport ta jh ve data data- data of of re P- P re search TIJi ctr cm il an An l t nd had t th h er no no O place giving g authentic offic official al records rec on a subject J |