The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-07
OUR FOREST RESERVATIONS
PROVISIONS OF THE DEFICIENCY
BILL RELATIVE THERETO.
Long Fight of Utah's Two Senators
For the Absolute Revocation OF the
Reserves-The Debate.
Washington Office of The Herald,
I415 G Street, N. W.

Washington, D. c., July S.-The eX-
act language of the deficiency bill reia-
tive TO the forest reservations in the
western states is as follows: For
compensa ton of forest inspectors, su-
rerintendents, supervisors, surveyors
rangers. and fire patrol, to be hereafter
appointed by the secretary OF the IN
terror, wholly with reference 70 lheir
f.'ness and without regard to their po-
i1ical affiliations and as far as prac-
ticable from the residents of the re-
spectiVe states where forest reSerVa-
lions exist or may hereafter be set
apart, to inspect or survey SAD reser
Vations. report to the secretary OF the
interior. the portions which should De
excluded, and generally to perform
such duties in the preservation OF Sucn
forest reservations and the appraisal
and sale of timber as the secretary OF
the interior may prescribe, 100000.
AS heretofore stated in The Herald
DISPATCHES. this amendment to the de-
ticiency bill was agreed to during the
long fight, led by Senators RaWllns
and Cannon. for the absolute reVoca-
ton of the forest reserves. This was
p-opoSed as an amendment 10 the sun
dry civil bill. Chairman Allison sue
ccssfuiIy resisted the proposed reSer-
n.
ing that the amendment, above stated,
should go in the deficiency bill. During
TIE course of the debate on the amend
ment Senator Cannon asked: VIII
the secretary of the interior or any
other authorized representative OF the
administration here ratify that under
standing? 1t might be very well Tor
those who are contesting these IotsSt
reservations to accept the suggestion
were there any assurance that that
would be the policy to be pursued, put
there has been nothing to characterize
the. handling of this question by the
administration up to the present time
to Justify the hope that such would De
the policy. ar
Senator Carter of Montana said: L
think l can assure the senator from
Utah that the president of the Unlteu
States will at any time promptly ana
willingly issue an order excluding from
a forest reservation any section OF
country which the secretary of the in
terror reports to him should be eX-
GUIDED. Again, the senator from WASH
inpton. who has discussed this matter
quite recently with the secretary OF the
interior has given the senate the as
sIirance. and | believe he has given II
with ample authority. that the secre-
tary of the interior will proceed 10 APP
point competent persons, residents OF
the respective states, to examine the
forest reservations. make needful sur
vevs and make reports of their oDser-
yatiors and surveys to the secretary,
and that he will thereupon cause the
p1oler orders Of exclusion TO be pre-
pared and forwarded to the president
for signature.
Mr.. Cannon replied: 81 do not think
that a proper solution OF TINS NeXeu
I l.rrf lln
nroposed. 1t seems TO me that the
senator from Iowa, in suggesting that
the committee on public lands OF the
senate should take it into consldera-
ton at once, shows the very ground
unon which we would best rely If the
conference report should be rejected
and the demand needed which comes
from all sections of the country al
fected by the forest reserve orders,
maj the orders themselves should be
vacated 1t will be very much easier
for the committee on public lands OF
the senate and the similar committee
of the house of representatives to take
into their purview the question of for
estrv reserves if there shall not already
be existing improperly constituted lot
estry reserves. The action OF the sec
rotary of the interior. however much
we may trust him-and l have no IDEA
hut that he will be not only intelligent,
but patriotic and considerate, In deal
ing with this question-will be very
much simpler if the forestry reserve
orders should he swept away, and II
he would be allowed to begin by
designation of the proper lands TO De
comprised within the new order Wnlch
shall be made.
1T is not necessary, after the re-
marks of the senator from South Da-
kota. for anyone to attack the sclen-
tific committee which went west to
make the investigation; but wish mere
TO record a fact in connection with
their work. or lack of work, in making
a designation OF a forestry reservation
in the state of Utah. No one OF the
commission ever set foot upon the Tor
estry reserve. No one of them ever
saw il. even from a distance. l doubt
If any one of them today, unless he
had a map before him showing the for
estry reserve marked upon it. could
tell in what portion of the state the
reservation is located. 1t is fact
that ten trees grow in Utah where one
was standing so years ago, when the
people entered there. a community
capable of multiplying the natural for
est by ten in 80 years ought to be al
lowed to express some judgment in re-
gard to the preservation of their own
forests"
The bill for the relief of Mrs. Verona
e. Pollock of Salt Lake will become a
law this week. It passed the senate
some time ago and has now, through
the persistent efforts of Judge King,
been carried through the house. This
bill pays Mrs. Pollock $3.50. Her hus-
hand. Alexander L. Pollock. was ap-
pointed consul general to the republic
of San Salvador in 1898. Immediately
after assuming the duties of his office
a revolution broke out in that coun-
try. and by reason of that the lives of
American citizens We're greatly jeopar-
died The minister from this cot:n-
try was not in that republic at that
time, and Mr.. Pollock was compelled
to perform not only the duties OF con-
sui general. but also the duties which
pertained to the office of minister.
During the progress of the revolution
the consul general performed valuable
services in protecting the lives and
of American citizens. He was
warned to flee for his life, but refused
10 leave his post While SO engaged.
and while the revolution was in prog
ress. the yellow fever broke out; but
Mr.. Pollock remained at his post of
duty. and owing to the onerous char
acter of his services. he became ener-
waited and liable to disease. and finally
contracted this dreaded disease, from
which he died. His wife and children.
who were with him, became victims OF
the same malady. They remained
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