It is hereby ordered that the following described land in the State of Idaho, viz: NW. 1/4 of sec. 22, T. 46 N., R. 5 W., of the Boise meridian be, and the same is hereby, withdrawn from settlement, entry, and sale, and set apart as an addition to the Indian school and agency site on the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, Idaho, until such time as it shall be no longer needed and used for this purpose.
Executive Order 1271—Adding Lands to the Coeur d'Alene Reservation, Idaho
Share & report
More from Robert Taft
It is easy in cases like this to take the course which timidity prompts, and to do nothing, but such a course does not inure to the public weal.
The whole contention that the executive order and the opening to settlement of the shore of Controller Bay grants a monopoly to the railway company rests on the claim that it has given an opportunity to persons using scrip to appropriate the control of the only available and practicable parts of the channel by the location of the scrip opposite to those parts.
The danger is not so much that the class of users in whose favor the classification purports to be made will receive more benefit than the framers of the law may have intended, but it is that many who do not belong to the class intended to be favored will import articles suitable for the prescribed use under the general terms of the statute, but will use them for other and general purposes.
Other voices in this conversation
