Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1906-01-12
Possibilities Of Poplar for
Pulp Making.
Maine Members Favor the Philip
pine Tariff Bill.
Will Also Vote for the Double Statehood
Bill.

| mills in Maine will be interested in the
poplar studies that experts of the
Forest Service have been making. The
results of their studies will be pub
lished soon in a bulletin, showing that
it's possibilities are great for manufac-
ture into pulp. The publication will
proper methods of cutting forests of
poplar, or trembling aspen" as some
of the young government experts pre-
| fer to call it.
! This is one Of the evidences of the
earnestness with which the Forest
| Service headed by Clifford PinchOt is
| working to preserve and make produce
tive the forests of eastern states, in
Guiding especially New York and New
England. Mr.. PinchOt wants to help
out the "wOodlot owners of the east
ern states also, as well as the owners
of timber land. Recently it was an
nounced to be the intention of the For
I est Service Ito take up the question of
increasing the use of dead and down
timber on the reserves in thoroughly
! practical manner, not only by extend
| ing the present uses. but also by in
| creasing new uses wherever possible"
| This work is to be undertaken by
branch of the service especially capable
of handling it; and in order that the
office Of the Forest Service may be in
formed as to the conditions in any tim
Der tract. steps have been taken to
secure information along the following
lines: location of tracts and descrip
| ton of material on each tract, kinds
Of timber, how and when killed, cOndi-
ton of timber. accessibility. present
uses, including purpose, amount.
| value and possible uses" While this
! line of inquiry will first be pursued
with tracts owned by the government
it is expected to develop considerable
information that will be Of service to
private owners and that eventually the
| forest experts will be able to give ad-
vice to private owners on the subject,
just as they are now doing for private
owners as to cuttings and the like.
| 1T is believed said Mr.. Pinchot to-
day, that one Of the results secured
will be the creation of markets for such
timber where none now exist. There
will be tests Of many specimens in our
Laboratories with n view to establishing
the suitability for any commercial
USE"
At the Capitol for several days the
| situa ton has been like a ship moving
with only half of her engines in action.
All has been hustle and activity at the
| south end. There the Philippine tariff
| bill has been under consideration, Rep
| resentative Serene Payne, of Auburn.
NY, leading off in a speech, as chair
| man of Ways and Means, which is pro-
nounced by leaders in Senate and
| House to have been an able effort. 1t
has been very generally read by MEM
beers of both houses as it gives a COM
prehensive budget of information on
the Philippine question. Senator
! Lodge, of Massachusetts, chairman of
the committee that will handle the bill
in the Senate said this afternoon that
Mr.. Paynes speech was one of the
ablest discussions about the Philippines
he had seen.
But while the House has been SO
busy. the Senate end of the Capitol for
the fist few days Of the session after
| the holidays was almost deserted. A
few committee meetings were in prog
ress there, but as a rule they We're
SHINY attended and of short duration.
| L
the beginning of a session and hurries
towards it's close. The House, on the
other hand, works industriOusly at the
start and takes things easy along in
| the spring and summer months. That
is in d large part due to the fact that
the House has the first say with APP
preparation bills and has to hurry that
4 part of the work, which must be out of
the way there before the Senate can
take il up. But the habits of work also
apply generally in both bodies as men,
toned.
| Speaker Cannon is showing his hos
pitality towards the members of the
House, who elected him to his present
position, by inviting all official WASH
| ingtOn to meet them at a reception
which he will give on January Is. Such
occasions are rare in Washington. No
Speaker within the memory of old
timers has undertaken such a large en-
tertainment. Mr.. Jefferson NJ. Levy. of
New York, a few years ago gave gen.
eral reception to members of the House,
which has become memorable in social
annals of Washington. But he was
only d member of the House. not one
who had been signally honored by his
colleagues.
| The Maine members have had but
little news for the last few days. They
have been following the Philippine de-
bate. although not participating in it,
because there is no phase of the ques-
ton that calls for discussion from
them. Republican members whose
constituencies are for tariff revision,
have been seeking chance to make
speeches during the general debate.
This has been the case with the Mass
achusetts Republicans. whose views on
tariff. however do not coincide with the
views of the members from Maine. The
latter, as is well understood in the Pine
Tree State, are content that the tariff