Vernal Express | 1911-08-04 | Page 2 | Brands Story a Fabrication

BRANDS STORY A fabrication 0 N president sends special message to the senate on the controller bay affair washington president taft sent bent a special mesi message age to the senate on wednesday shouldering full response billay for opening for settlement bett lement and development 1800 acres of the chu chil gach national forest resene in alaska an incident which ina his be come to be known as the controlled Control Cont rollet lei oay cay affair in conclude ng he brands the now famous dick to dick rost post script as a wicked fabrication and says th thu tt charles P taft whose name appeared in the alleged postscript has no interest inhere t in alaska never had bad and knows nothing of the circum stances connected with this transaction moreover the president adds his bis brother does not even remember that he ever met achard S R ran an representing the controller bay navigation company As for eliminating theland herand in ques tion alon from the re resene serNe the president that there is no danger of the controller railway arid and navigation corpeny company or any other monopolizing opol izing the field and nothing to show that this company comp artris is in anyway any v ay connected with the morgan duggen helm interests hence he believes that in eliminating the land he has acted for the best interests or of the nation