COMPILATION OF

LETTERS, TELEGRAMS, REPORTS

AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

OFFERED IN EVIDENCE BEFORE THE JOINT
COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS TO INVESTIGATE
THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR AND
THE BUREAU OF FORESTRY IN THE COURSE
OF THE HEARINGS HELD BY THE COMMITTEE
JANUARY 26-MAY 28, 1910 :: :: :: :: ::

TABLE OF CONTENTS.

VOLUME I.

PART I.-Joint resolution of Congress directing investigation and general corre-
spondence of the committee....

Page.

5-18

PART II.-Correspondence relating to the appointment of Mr. R. A. Ballinger
as Commissioner of the General Land Office and as Secretary of the Interior.. 19-26
PART III.-Communications to the President and replies thereto and other
correspondence and papers relating generally to so-called Ballinger-Pinchot
controversy...

PART IV.-Alaska coal claims and related subjects.....

VOLUME II.

27-63
65-871

872-1026

PART IV.—Alaska coal claims and related subjects (continued)...................

PART V.-Power of the Executive to withdraw public lands from entry.. 1027-1069

PART VI.-Withdrawal of public lands for protection of water-power sites. 1071-1136

PART VII.-Cooperation between Indian Office and Forest Service...... 1137-1238

PART VIII.-Reclamation Service:

Reclamation legislation and decisions construing same..

Cooperative certificates....

Reorganization of service..

1239-1244

1245-1278

1278-1294

Correspondence between Secretary Ballinger and R. H. Thomson,

George W. Perkins, S. H. Hedges, and other miscellaneous letters. 1294-1302

Correspondence and documents relating to Klamath project.......

Correspondence relating to Roosevelt Dam...

1303-1308

1308-1310

1310-1316

Correspondence and documents relating to Lake Tahoe matter..

Documents relating to treaty with Mexico providing for equitable

distribution of the waters of the Rio Grande for irrigation purposes. 1316-1322

Correspondence and documents relating to relations of A. P. Davis,

chief engineer Reclamation Service, with J. G. White & Co.......

Miscellaneous papers relating to Reclamation Service..

1322-1331

1331-1366

Conduct of Chicago office of Reclamation Service by E. T. Perkins.. 1366–1434

PART IX.-Documents relating to the Forestry Bureau...

1435-1485

PART X.-Rulings of Department of Interior relating to right of former

employees to practice before department within two years, and related

matters.

PART XI.-Calls for production of documents and responses thereto..

(iii)

1487-1518

1519-1591