The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-22
!!OENOUNCE FORESTRY DEsP0T
Senators TO Check Power Of
Chief Of Department.
RULES OVER 100000 SQUARE MILES
GROWING ENcRoAcHMENTS OF
TIMBER BUREAU ALARMS
THE LEGISLATORS.

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conceded by senators in charge
of the agricultural bill in the senate
; that the grazing lease provision will
| be eliminated from the bill on point
of order. The reading of the agri-
cultural bill was completed after
most of the day had been spent in de-
bate on the forestry system and the
grazing measure, and it will again be
considered tomorrow for final action.
An amendment was agreed to at the
suggestion of Senator Nelson which
will add $4,000 each year to the appro-
priation for agricultural colleges I'M
til the total amount for each state for
these colleges shall be 10000 annu-
ally, instead of 100000 as at pres
ent.
Senator Patterson has given notice
of an amendment to segregate forest
reserve lands according to their
adaptability as forest lands, mining
lands and agricultural lands.
Senator Patterson today opposed
grazing land lease proposition.
Senator Warren, saying he was
aware the provision would go out on
point of order nevertheless advocated
it. Mr. Warren resented the charge
! that certain senators had fenced in
| the public domain.
Personally. he said, he did not have
an acre of illegally fenced land.
| The farewell address of George
Washington will be read in the SEN
ate by Senator Burkett of Nebraska
Injurious and Destructive.
"The constant tendency of the bu
reau of forestry has reen to shut
out and gather to itself land and
power never contemplated by con-
gress,'' asserted Mr.. Clark. Such
| procedure is detrimental, injurious
and destructive to the interests of the
| various parts of the country in which
| the reserves are situated.
when in 1891 congress authorized
| the president to create a forest re-
serve, no one ever contemplated
, that in this brief time 100000 square
closed to settlement.
THE area of forest reserve is now
| as large as the whole of New Eng
| land, with the states Of PennSyl-
| vania New York and Ohio, amounting
J to 127 900 acres 1t is now pro-
posed in this bill to withdraw AGO.
100000 acres more, the grazing lands
| of the country. and place this vast
domain under the authority of the
chief of the forestry bureau. This is
giving more dominion and power to
one man than is held by any individ-
ual on earth. king or potentate
Talk about your lumber barOns,
where is the man except the chief of
this bureau who has under his con-
| troll 127,O0O,OOO acres of timber land?
He can sell the timber to whom he
| pleaSes, at the price he selects and in
| such quantities as he may desire, and
without being responsible to any one.
| Il say the forest reserve is being
made the damnation of the country.
| The time has come when a halt must
US of the west who are affected by
| the preserves to place before the east
our proper attitude, for the man who
raises his voice against forest reserves
is at once denounced as CRATER and
timber baron. He is at once pilor-
led in the press as a despoiler of pub
lie domain
Prohibiting a Charge.
| Senator Patterson interrupted to
say he intended to introduce an
amendment prohibiting a charge to
be made for grazing cattle on public
lands. incidentally Mr.. Patterson re-
| marked:
Il am a little tired of the adulation
that has been poured out on the head
of this chief of the bureau here in the
| senate
When Mr.. Clark said it seemed to