The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-05
BITTER ATTACK IS
MADE BY HEPBURN
Idaho Senator ROasts the Ad-
ministration's Forest Re-
serve Policy.
DELEGATES RECEIVE HIS
REMARKS WITH KISSES
Evening Session of the lrriga-
tiOn Congress Spiced With
Acrimonious Debate.

bate Senator Hepburn was persistently
hissed by his audience and to obtain Il
hearing was forced to declare his inten-
tion TO finish his remarks. The assem-
| blage at other times was dlsorderly and
Chairman Carter was compelled to ask
that order be maintained.
United States Senator Carter of Mon
tana, the presiding officer, gave brief
| outline Of the legislation enacted by
| Congress, giving TO the President of the
| United States the extraordinary author
| iJy TO exercise his discretion in the set
| ting apart Of such reservations. He
| made the declaration that it could be
set down as the definite purpose of the
National Congress not only to stop fur
| ther destruction of the forests. but TO
set aside reserves on which new timber
may grow and where the headwaters of
the streams may be conserved.
Clifford Fl. Pinchot, chief forester,
was introduced by Senator Carter as an
officer Mr.. Pinchot might be mistaken
in matters of general policy, said the
Senator, but no one for n moment would
doubt that it was his purpose to exer-
else his authority for the best interests
of the general public under the law, as
he understood.
"Mr. Pinchot is now on the grid
chief forester stepped before the assem-
blage.
States President S Policy.
Mr.. Pinchot stated that the policy of
President Roosevelt was 'Fto give every
part of the public lands their very best
use. - The problem, he said, was one
Of the utmost difficulty, one in which
the forest service chad made lots of
mistakes
Probably it wonld continue to make
mistakes, be said, but the effort was to
study, in connection with the people,
the question of methods by which all
parts of the public reserves can be put
to the best use These reserves to
certain extent control the stock bust
ness Of the West, he said, for the chief
summer range is in the reserves. The
stockmen could not be kept off entirely
at the demand of the irrigationists, he
said, nor could the service let them
have free run of the reserves. $50
you see, - said Mr.. Pinchot, "that the
forester stands in the middle and he
gets IN a-comin and a-goin'.' The
speaker stated that some reserves were
practically without trees, and one in
Kansas was without 8 single tree. Facts
which had been the subject of much
criticism, but 1t was the purpose to put
trees there and to restore the grass on
the over grazed range The service, he
said, had the biggest job of tree plant
ing on the face of the earth. Mr.. Pin
chot gave the number of rangers in
the service as 100, and the supervisors
as numbering los. Under the laws of
Prussia, he said, the same reserves
would be controlled by 10000 rangers
and $4,000 supervisors,
Hepburn Makes Attack.
Senator Hepburn was called to the
platform and Immediately launched a
bitter attack on the administration 8
forestry policy. The people were told
what was the policy of the admins
tion had no right to have anv policy
except as stated in the statutes. The
administration told the people '.'what
we will give you.' No one, he said,
authorized the administration to give
the people anything, The people were
sovereign. "Policy," said the Idaho
Senator, "belongs to mouarchs and
kingdoms, and not to republic For
estry." he said. "has been fostered as
policy to uphold the leisurely, lazy
dignity of monarchs. Germany, he
said, "once had been overthrown by it's
forestry policy, and three times the
heads of England 8 monarchs had gone
TO the block as the result Of forest
policy, ,, Senator Hepburn declared
that the Cassia reserve in Idaho WAS
created at the behest Of specializing cat
tie men.
Congressman Reeder OF Kansas inter
rupted TO declare that the President of
the United States set the reserve aside
and that he probably did so from a
pure purpose, Senator Heybura resent