The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1906-1907, 1906-09-05

OORRECTS HEPBURN. ~.
Congressman Reeder of Kansas In
terrrupted to declare that the presi-
dent of the United States set the re-
serve aside and he probably did so for
q purpose. Senator Hepburn resented
the interruption, whereupon Mr..
Reeder expressed his belief that the
Idaho senator was impugning the
presidents motives.
Please keep your ideas to your
self while ] have the platform, 3"
retorted Mr.. Hepburn.
The president Of the United
States needs no defense from me at
your hands. +"
Senator Hepburn said he did not
question the presidents motives, but
the president had been misled by bad
and not disinterested advisers.
1.-TWO thirds of the area of the
state Of Idaho said Senator Hey
bun, had been withdrawn form the
homesteader, md has been made ST.
lent and dreamy solitude, o pleasure
only to the dreamer and the poet,
blasting the hopes for the states
prosperity.
Senator Hepburn, to subtsantiate
his assertion; displayed a map of the
state, in which the black ares desig-
mating forest reserves, covered the
greater part Of the states area. In
Montana and Washington, he said,
the picture was almost as black as in
Idaho, The reserves had been created
without practical knowledge Of local
conditions.
When Senator Hepburn asserted
with much vehemence that Mr.. Pin.
chot's theory about forests shbserv-
ing moisture was wrong, there we're
cries of mo, no." and in all parts
of the house there was kissing.
Senator Hepburn shouted his def.
ance at the audience. Geese hiss"
he said. Don't try that with me.
I'm to old too be scared by that pro-
cess. I'll have a hearing" When
Chairman Carter had restored order,
Mr.. Hepburn attacked the National
Forestry association. One of its vice
presidents, he said, was Weyerhaeus-
er who owns more timber land than
any man in the world, ''more timber
than was originally stolen by any
man in the world
| Daeawvos bnd kooy, ovnokn1 l., ~
state Of Washington said the senator,
to permit the Northern Pacific rail
way to select in lieu of lands thus
Withdrawn thousands of acres Of the
most valuable white pine lands in
the west. The San Francisco reserve
in Arizona, he said, had been created
for like purposes.
A delegate from Arizona interrupt.
ed to state that the people Of Arizona
were thoroughly in favor of this re-
serve and q delegate from Washing
ton asserted that the people of Wash
ington do not lose anything by rea-
son of the creating of the Rainier
reserve.
! Mr.. Hepburn retorted that Wash
ington did not lose by the railroads
selection of the lands in Idaho's
white pine forests, and in the Arizo.
ma reservoir Idaho was again the
looser, for the right of selecting lieu
lands had been exercised in Idaho.
| DISORDER OCCURS.
Congressman Reeder again inter
rupted, asking whether Senator Hey
burn was going to give any other del
egate chance to talk. ~
Again there was disorderly out
break, in which there was kissing
end shouting at the speaker. Sena-
tor Hepburn spoke only few more
words and retired.
A delegate from Oregon was recog-
nized, and remarked that the Idaho
senator had "shown more nerve than
any man whom he had seen on the
floor of the congress.
DUBOIS TO TALK LATER.
There were loud calls for United
States Senator Dubois, Of Idaho, Sem
ator Dubois said it did not seem
proper that he should discuss this
matter before the irrigation con-
gress. He would, be said, answer
his colleague on the stump in the
coming campaign. The protestants
against the reserve, he said, we're
perosns who were anxious to get con-
troll of these lands and sell them to
the syndicate.
1t was about IL O'Clock when Sena-
tor Carter brought the session to q
close. He stated that the congress
had experienced q long, warm night
and had rather heated night, but was
indebted to the gentlemen who had
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