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floor, and members could not vote in
diligently. He said he would continue
to oppose and protest against such
procedure.
On the question of the adoption of
the order the Democrats divided, Bal
ley and his followers voting with the
Republicans, and several of the Dem
ocrats, including McMillin and Bland,
with the POpulists, against the order.
The vote resulted Ill to L.
Cannon, in charge of the time of the
majority, yielded fifteen minutes to
Lacey (R.) of Iowa, Chairman of the
Committee on Public Lands of the last
House, who discussed the forest reser-
walton amendment. Lacey criticised
the Senate provision restoring to the
public domain the reservations created
by the order of President Cleveland
last February. He thought the or
der should simply be suspended, pend
ing an examination. If the Senate
provision became a law, he said, the
lands could not be reserved until they
had been surveyed, perhaps years
hence. He said some of the most bit
ter opposition to the order undoubtedly
CNNA~AN
operators. He thought the suspension
should not be for more than one year,
as was originally proposed in the Sen
ate.
McRae of Arkansas also took ground
against the complete revocation of the
Cleveland order. The present over
flow of the Mississippi and its tribu-
taries was largely due to the denuda-
ton of the forests at the headwaters
of those streams, and in his opinion
should be a warning to Congress of the
necessity of preservation of our forests.
Knowles Pop) of North Dakota and
Hartman (Silver R.) of Montana sup
ported the Senate amendments for the
unqualified suspension of Cleveland's
order and the restoration of the lands
to the public domain The latter char
acterized the order as a parting shot
of the greatest enemy the American
people ever had"
Kind Cd of Utah also supported this
portion of the Senate amendment. SO
far as the reservation in his State was
concerned, he said. it worked hard
ship and injustice to people who had
settled on the land reserved in good
faith, and who had made improve
ments.
The amendment striking out the par
agraph relating to the public building
at Topeka was agreed to.
Wheeler Cd of Alabama used a pro
forma amendment to refer rather SEN
sationally to the very important ad-
mission" made in an interview by the
distinguished Chairman of the Ways
md
effect that the real purpose of the tariff
bill was to create surplus and i'm
pound the greenbacks.''
4 made no such statement" inter
rupted Dingley.
The amendments providing for an in
spector and assistant for the islands of
st. Paul and ST. George, Alaska. and
making appropria for the protec-
ton Of the salmon fisheries of Alaska
Immediately available were concurred
in.
When the amendment relating to the
forest reservation was reached Hart
man Of Montana, moved concurrence.
Lacey moved concurrence with the
amendments providing for the suspen-
sion of Clevelands executive order I'M
til March /, 1898, when the order as it
may be modified, shall go into effect,
and substituting what is known as the
McRae bill for the provision permit
ting the use by bona fide settlers of tim
Der and stone on such reservations
Shafroth (Silver R) of Colorado ar
gued earnestly for the adoption of the
Senate amendment, especially for that
portion of it allowing miners and pros
pectors free use of timber.
Bell Pop) of Colorado argued along
the same lines.
Jones (Pop) of Washington declared
that his State was more vitality inter
ested in the revocation Of Cleveland's
forest reserve order than any other
State. Until the order was revoked. he
said, settlers could not cut stick of
timber for any purpose whatever under
the existing law.
1t was agreed to take a vote on the
pending propositions at / o'clock to-
morrow.
The House at ; o'clock took a recess
until noon tomorrow.