Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-01-27
SCENE IN MINNESOTA.
Timber Devastation After LAUNDERING and Fire.

4, nt's address yesterday and one Of
n 5 sentences struck me very forcibly.
NJ said: I'VE want to change the
pc OF accomplishment to the knowl-
to do that we must have a clear
" idea of what we are going TO do
y ID OF what We want Congress to do
lfSso plain and clear that there is no
, ssibility of any man being 80 stupid
" at he cannot understand it.
We have listened to these gentlemen
Nh g mining industries and OF the inJus-
NJ ,e brought about by insufficient
WIS. There is a most simple way to
7t all the things done that they have
commended, and more, too. The first
to come TO perfect understanding
it'll a business bureau of the govern
CYent, II we can create such a bureau,
Md the way to do that is to pass the
a. lder the control of Clifford Pinchot.
FH pplauseD And after you have done
Ilat and he has consulted with the
~ mberman and the miner and the FAR
a Ter and understands what they want,
Hhen back him up and make your con-
ressman help to get 1t done.
4 Case Of Mastery Inactivity.
Let us look at the business end of
Mat proposition. Other things be-
tdes bees have business ends. For a
pumber of years the president of the
limited States, the secretary of the in
general land office have been trying to
Lnpress upon congress, without sue
less, the necessity OF repeating the
vmber and stone act. l want to give
Ide exact facts. The president, in De-
MEMBER, 1902, more than two years
klgo, called the attention Of congress in
Tue strongest possible language to the
kecessity Of doing something to stop
Nae frauds and depredations upon the
IIublic domain under the timber and
tone act. The secretary said in his
al
H"The timber and stone act will, if
lot repealed or radically amended, re-
tult ultimately in the complete de-
ktruction of the timber on the unap-
Yropriated and unreserved public
lnds."
Inc senate committee on the public
ands, and the date is February ~,
903:
1T can be plainly seen that all the
aiuable timber lands of the United
ltates will be owned by spectators
kyithin three years if the opportunity
acquire them at $3.50 an acre is
Continued"
low pretty close to February 10, 1905,
nd one year from that date the three
ears will be exhausted and all the
timber land will be gone according TO
This official statement
Has the bill been repealed? No!
Has the house of representatives
lone anything to stop this sham e1 "a,
waste of the public property under the
Timber and stone act? No!
They have done nothing whatever to
stop the abuses and frauds constantly
being committed under that act
President Sees the Necessity.
Again the following year the presi-
Dent in his message to congress made
substantially the same recommended
lions. They were reiterated by the
secretary of the interior. The senate
Committee on public lands recon-
.mended a bill to repeal the timber and
| stone act and the senate passed the
i oil in the last session of congress. II
went to the public lands committee OF
Ehe house of representatives. L. -
Walker appeared before that commit
Zee and waved his magic wand and
Ishey gave two votes for the repeal OF
1.-The bill out of eighteen members OF
1.-The committee. Two votes! And the
Jbill is lying there in that committee
In this session of congress without
waiting for anything, or for anybody
60 do anything, they passed resolu.
ton in the public lands con boia e,,6 y.
feet over until the next session o.
The next session Of congress vii
convene at a time within two months
OF the expiration of the three years
within which the senate committee
told congress that all the timber lant
would be gone uIltSS NutN SUI h.oii
In the two years that have explre'
since the president has called the at
tention Of congress TO that tlmper an.
stone law there have been located undel
the timber and stone act over 5000,
600 acres of timber land, the create
part of 1t the magnificent timber @
the northwest, which, according 10 TN
renort Of the secretary of the interio
and the commissioners of the genera
land office, is worth anywhere iron
$50 20 800 an acre for the mere Vaiu
Of the s<nmpage, to say nothing OF Tn
young timber or the land itself.
-Four Million Dollar Loss.
In other words, as a result OF tn
aeliberate delay OF the public lana
committee of the house, instead
having the value OF the stumpage from
that 5000, 600 acres of timber In Tn
, z ational treasury we have parted VIII