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On the recordJuly 25, 1911
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.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Message to the Senate Explaining the Administration's Reasons for Eliminating from the Chugach National Forest of...

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