The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-08-24
GOSSIP FROM WASHINGTON
Too Many Forestry Bureaus.

Too Many Forestry Bureaus.
The work of preserving the forests Of the
United States is now divided up among four
separate and distinct bureaus, each working
quite independently of the other. This is
one of the four headed freaks Of govern
mental administration. There are forestry
cultural department, the land office and the
geological survey. A special act Of congress
will be necessary to consolidate the bureaus.
gross, but "Unele Joe" Cannon squinted I'M
favorably at 1t, and it wilted Clifford Pin
| chot, who is the real head of the forestry
bureau. which is that in the agricultural de,
partment is determined to unite them all
under one head. He will urge bill for this
in tho next congress. Few who have not
made a special study of the subject realize
the vest importance of preserving the coun-
try's forests. And fewer realize the extent
| to which the public forest domain has been
| plundered by lumbcrmea who have become
| vastly wealthy in so doing.
While Lottie Eats Luncheon.
Fearful and wonderful are the workings of
stance which would hardly be credited by an
ordinary up-to-date business man. Every
day, between the house of IL and 2:3O the
entire interior department suspends COM
munication by telephone with the outside
world. This suspension applies to fully forty
tremendous bureaus, including several thous-
secretary of the interior with all his ad-
mnistrative staff, and includes the general
| land office, the Indian office, the pension
bureau the patent office tie geological o sur
bureaus and sub-bureaus tco numerous to
mon ton. No matter; how urgent the call or
the nature of tho busness-it might be the
critical illness Of the secretary's own wife
it is impossible to communicate with tie tele-
phone system of the department. The reason
is that the young lady who attends the
to luncheon at this hour The thought OF q
substitute operative for the switchboard seems
never to have occurred to anybody. Business
of state and other business waits while Miss
Lottie absorbs peanut sandwiches and choco-
late cellars.
Cotton In German Africa.
In the Gergan- African colonies cotton
growing has been undertaken at Togo, Kan
erun, German Southwest Africa and German
East Africa. German syndicate conteln'
plates growing cotton in Asia Minor. II
Togo the second years crop is being planted
the first year proving great success, imam
the general move among European countries
to work out their independence of America s
cotton monopoly. Germany manufactures
cotton every year 10 the value of S2ocOc ,oco
giving employment to a mlliolta laborers
The Busy Hungarian Hen.
The American hen will have to get busy
if she is to keep up with her Hungarian sis.
ter. Hungary is now sending eggs and fowls
to England, where they compete quite sue
Th n6 rSq,ry aea or
gerry reports that this industry pays the
farmers in that country ten times as much
IS any other branch OF agriculture in which
they engage.
What the Germans Do.
In Germany 81 per cent. of the population
are engaged in agriculture or forestry; 8
per cert in mining and other industries; II
per cent in commerce and transportation
nearly 3 per cent in the army and navy, ant
31k per cent in official and other position,
of ease.
No Coal In Maine.
The government experts have just finished
IThe reconnaissance covered all possible 10
calities where there might be carboniferou'
deposits among the rocks, and the explorer!
recommend that no further search be made
4 IS 1T will be certain to disappoint.
"Greater Washington Plan Ignored.
The site for the new hall of records which
the government has just purchased at a cos
of $3.50. 900 is en- the. low, fiat ground Dor
Il dering the Potomac. below the Corcoran ar
;, gallery. The land was sold to the govern
Inent by Secretary of. State John Hay ane
Senator William T. Stewart of Nevada. Il
lis regretted by many In Washington that thu