Investigation of the Department of the Interior and of the Bureau of Forestry: Hearings Held Before the Joint Committee of Congress Relative to the Investigation of the Department of the Interior and Its Several Bureaus, Officers, and Employees, and of the Bureau of Forestry, in the Department of Agriculture, and Its Officers and Employees, المجلد 7U.S. Government Printing Office, 1910 |
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A. B. Campbell action administration affidavit Agent Jones agreement Alaska coal lands appears Assistant Secretary Pierce Attorney Attorney-General authority Ballinger's believe BRANDEIS Cale bill called certificates CHAIRMAN charge clear listing coal entries Collier's Weekly Commissioner Ballinger committee Congress conservation course cross-examination Cunningham claimants Cunningham claims Cunningham group Davis entrymen evidence fact Finney follows Forest Service fraudulent Glavis Glavis's Government Governor Moore Guggenheim Hoyt interests Interior Department investigation issued Jones July July 20 Juneau Katalla Kerby Land Office Lawler letter Love matter ment Newell November 12 opinion patents PEPPER Perkins persons Pinchot power sites President public lands purpose question Reclamation Service record reference regard report of August respect restorations Schwartz Seattle Secretary BALLINGER Secretary Garfield Senator September shows Special Agent statement statute submitted telegram Test testified testimony things tion told VERTREES Washington water-power sites withdrawals
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الصفحة 5036 - All valuable mineral deposits in lands belonging to the United States, both surveyed and unsurveyed, are hereby declared to be free and open to exploration and purchase, and the lands in which they are found to occupation and purchase, by citizens of the United States...
الصفحة 5043 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
الصفحة 5290 - Gentlemen, what does this mean ? Chops and Tomato sauce ! Yours, Pickwick! Chops! Gracious heavens! and Tomato sauce ! Gentlemen, is the happiness of a sensitive and confiding female to be trifled away, by such shallow artifices as these? The next has no date whatever, which is in itself suspicious. 'Dear Mrs. B., I shall not be at home till to-morrow. Slow coach.' And then follows this very remarkable expression. 'Don't trouble yourself about the warming-pan.
الصفحة 5101 - It shall not be lawful for any person appointed after the first day of June, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two, as an officer, clerk, or employee in any of the Departments, to act as counsel, attorney, or agent for prosecuting any claim against the United States which was pending in either of said Departments while he was such officer, clerk, or employee...
الصفحة 5329 - No public forest reservation shall be established, except to improve and protect the forest within the reservation, or for the purpose of securing favorable conditions of water flows, and to furnish a continuous supply of timber for the use and necessities of citizens of the United States; but it is not the purpose or intent of these provisions, or of the act providing for such reservations, to authorize the inclusion therein of lands more valuable for the mineral therein, or for agricultural purposes,...
الصفحة 5042 - It was urged at the bar, that the postmaster general was alone subject to the direction and control of the President, with respect to the execution of the duty imposed upon him by this law; and this right of the President is claimed, as growing out of the obligation imposed upon him by the constitution, to take care that the laws be faithfully executed.
الصفحة 5290 - These letters, too, bespeak the character of the man. They are not open, fervent, eloquent epistles, breathing nothing but the language of affectionate attachment. They are covert, sly, underhanded communications, but, fortunately, far more conclusive than if couched in the most glowing language and the most poetic imagery — letters that must be viewed with a cautious and suspicious eye — letters that were evidently intended at the time, by Pickwick, to mislead and delude any third parties into...
الصفحة 5104 - That all persons, their heirs or assigns, who have in good faith personally or by an attorney in fact made locations of coal land in the Territory of Alaska in their own interest, prior to November twelfth, nineteen hundred and six, or in accordance with circular of instructions issued by the Secretary of the Interior May sixteenth...
الصفحة 5104 - May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, may consolidate their said claims or locations by including in a single claim, location, or purchase not to exceed two thousand five hundred and sixty acres of contiguous lands, not exceeding in length twice the width of the tract thus consolidated, and for this purpose such persons, their heirs or assigns may form associations or corporations who may perfect entry of and acquire title to such lands in accordance with the other provisions of law under which...
الصفحة 5027 - There has developed in recent years a deep concern in the public mind respecting the preservation and proper use of our natural resources. This has been particularly directed toward the conservation of the resources of the public domain. The problem is how to save and how to utilize, how to conserve and still develop; for no sane person can contend that it is for the common good that Nature's blessings are only for unborn generations.