By executive order the coal lands were withdrawn and not opened for entry until proper classification was placed thereon by Government agents.

There was a great clamor that I was usurping legislative power; but the acts were not assailed in court until we brought suits to set aside entries made by persons and associations to obtain larger areas than the statutes authorized.

This position was opposed on the ground that the restrictions imposed were illegal; that the executive orders were illegal.

The Supreme Court sustained the Government.

In the same way our attitude in the water power question was sustained, the Supreme Court holding that the Federal Government had the rights we claimed over streams that are or may be declared navigable by Congress.