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said to him, I will have Basselin not oppose the cancellation of 

 this State title. Gentlemen, have you heard any excuse or any 

 reason given to you this deal was never carried out? Mr. 

 Garmon testifies it never was carried out, and never received 

 a dollar from him or , any other man that he used to his 

 own purpose, or any purpose, on State lands for the cancellation 

 of any title, save his salary as warden of the State and his expenses 

 under the law. It is an old saving that is as true as can be, that 

 wherever you find the disposition and the opportunity, you will 

 always find the consummation. Now, Turner says that he and Garson 

 had the disposition; they had the subject-matter before them, which 

 was the opportunity; that he having the bottom title to this property 

 , and the application in the Comptroller's office for cancellation, and if 

 he and Mr. Garmon had talked about it, they certainly had the oppor- 

 tunity. Why wasn't it carried it out? Was there any excuse for it ? 

 Not a bit. The simple excuse and all there is for it and all there is about 

 it is that it is a tissue of falsehood and conjured up by this man who has 

 been compelled to stop his depredations upon the State property. 

 Now, what was there about these other two quarters ? He says At 

 the same time they were talking about the southeast quarter of the 

 same township and I think the northeast quarter, or a certain portion 

 of township 15, and it was found that neither one of these could be con- 

 summated. The subcommittee will remember that I put the question 

 to him repeatedly and tried to press Mr. Turner as strong as I could 

 for him to give me some relative dates in reference to this ride, 

 and all I could get, it was 1886 or 1887; he thought it was 

 the winter of 1886 or 1887; he would not give me any relative dates 

 about it, but he did say in answer to the counsel that he had 

 some letters and some telegrams that would bear him out; telegrams 

 and letters that would bear out his construction. The counsel has 

 read them here to you, one year and a half after he claims this deal 

 on his part and Garmon was brought into existence by his and 

 Gannon's agreement between Saranac and Loon lake. Letters here, 

 Mr. Garmon tells you gentlemen of this committee, that related 

 exclusively to the matter of his lands where he owned jointly with the 

 State, that it was in reference to the partition of those lands, and the 

 proposition to exchange them; that he had repeated and repeated 

 propositions in the office, among them was one that he wanted 7,000 

 acres of State lands covered with virgin growth of the soil for 5,000 

 acres that he had lumbered over. Does he deny it ? He sat here by 

 the counsel's elbow and never a word did he say in explanation of 



