The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-09-10
FOREST
An Abstract Of the Senate Bill for the
Preservation of Forests.

entitled A Bill to Provide for the Es-
Enlistment, Protection, and Admins
tration of Public Forest Reservations.
and for outher Purposes.
The bill ~(senate 3235) was introduced
by Senator Paddock, has been favor
ably reported by the committee to which
it was referred. and is now on the calen-
dar of the senate, privileged to be called
up at an early date of the next session:
After providing for an examination
and classification of all public lands
bearing forests and the setting apart by
the president Of forest reservations. Sec
tons 4, 5, 6 and 7 provide for a commits
sioner Of forests, three inspectors, and
the necessary clerical force, in connec-
ton with the department of %agricultur.
a superintendent for each reservation.
and assistant superintendent to be in
charge OF portions Of reservations ex-
ceeding one million acres. and for such
details of troops as may be necessary for
the additional protection of the reserva-
tons. The officers IN command may
also be required to act temporarily as
superintendent Of reservations.
Section 8 provides that all the forest
officers shall possess the pc 'ers of
deputy United States marshals, wear
badges showing their official functions,
and shall have all the powers and duties
of such officers in enforcing this act
and the rules and regulations governing
their reservations.
Section 8 provides that if any of the
states in which forest reservations are
situated provide for the management of
the forests in the state. it shall be in the
discretion OF the commissioner of forests
to substitute such state forest manage
ment.
Section 10 provides for a survey and
description of lands in each forest reser-
walton with special reference to the uses
to which the soil is adapted, and after
due examination by the commissioner of
forests for a report by him designating
such areas as are better adapted for
farming than for the growth Of timber,
with a view to their restoration to the
public domain.
Section II provides for reasonable
rules and regulations for the administra-
ton, protection. and occupancy of the
reservations for the establishment of a
practicable system of forestry by the
commissioner Of forests, but there shall
be mo restrictions preventing prospect
ing for minerals except SO far as general
regulations" are concerned, and ''no eX-
elusive rights to prospect. hunt. or fish"
but 1.-The forest officers shall be charged
with the enforcement of any existing
state game laws" etc.
Section II provides for the opening of
mines under licenses granted by the sec
rotary of agriculture in designated To-
- ~. -. .l., ,;lsaI ,,;narn h,o Ennr
actually discovered; and for such regu-
lations as will insure the objects of the
reservations and for the leasing of past
ures, for the construction of reservoirs,
ditches, and other irrigation works.
Sections Is. II, and Is provide that all
the cutting of wood on the reservations
shall be done in accordance with a sys-
TEN of licenses, as follows:
|. Prospectors licenses, which shall be
granted upon the payment Of five dollars,
comforting the right to prospect for min
eral and to cut timber for the first con
struciion of all necessary mining struc-
lures from the land adjacent.
>. Settlers licenses, granted to any
bona tide settler having no timber on his
claim. by the reservation sup rintenden,
on the payment of five dollars. Such
license shall confer the right to cut fol
one year. for the licensees own use only
and for domestic purposes, fuel ano
fence material, etc, upon an area OF five
acres,
3. Lumberman's license, granted upoT
payment of a fee OF twenty. five dollars
for the cutting of such timber as in thu
opinion of the commissioners may be ad
y%antageously cut and is mot needed fol
mining or agricultural development il
the neighbornood, in quantities not les'
than that standing on one section. no
more than that standing or being or
!, twenty five contiguous sections
The ~licensee shall also pay 81 per acr'
for the whole number of acres covered
by his license before he may begin oper
atoms and a further charge ner cubic
foot of wood shall be included in the biz
by the applicant and paid by the ~license'
, after the timber has been cut and before
it is removed.
The license shall not be renewed wher'
not more than ten sections of timbe
; were embraced in the original license
unless reasons satisfactory to the commits
, sioner are shown why the same could no
; have been used and its privileges OK
!, hausted during the period for which
was given.
Sections 1G provides that any court o
/. the United States or commissioner there
of shall have jurisdiction to hear AM
3 determine all complaints made OF an,
violation of his act and shall have powe
to issue process, upon sworn informa
t ton, in the name of the United States
for the arrest Of any person charged
with the commission of any non indlct
able o~ffense, and to try the person 8
: charged and if found guilty, to nix tn
punishment as in this statute provided
Nothing in this act shall be construe'
p. as preventing the arrest without process
of any person taken in the act OF vioiat
= ing the law or any regulation for tn
: government of the forest reservation. =,
Sections II, IS. 10, 20 and 2l prov'd
/ the penalties for the infringement of tn
8 provisions of this act, the proceeding
e in the proper courts and for the paymen
t of costs of expenses of cases under tn
act properly chargeable to the Unite
States.
Section - provides that all sum