The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-05-06
AGRICULTURAL BILL
SENATOR HEPBURN RIDICULEs X CHART OF FORESTRY BUREAU.
Declares That The Supply Of Timber ,IsS As Great Today As Ever
 In The Worlds W D. @aHistory.

Washington May 5.--On resuming consideration of the agricultural bill in the Senate today. Mr. Warren stated that as he had received a communt- cation from the Secretary of Agricui- ture saying that he would be able to take care of the pure food law with out An additional appropriation, he would not offer the amendments for that purpose which he had intended. On al point of order by Senator Clark, of Wyoming, the amendment authcrtz- ing the Secretary of Agriculture to "Advise the owners of woodlands as to their proper care" was stricken from the bill.
 Suggesting an amendment excepting Idaho from States which the Secretary of Agriculture may give permits for the exportation of timber from forest reserves, senator Hepburn ridiculed chart of the forestry division which was swung on the wall of the Senate chamber, marked with statements as to the number of years the forests in various parts of the country would last. The forestry division, he said. was launching into the realm of pre- phecy in a way that would require greater wisdom than that possessed | by the sages of old when 1t declared 1 that a certain section would be shorn | of its forests in twenty. thirty, or forty l years. They forget. he said, that tim I Der grows, and he declared that "the | supply of timber is as great today as | ever in the worlds history" There was. he said. no danger of timber | famine.
 1 T can prove" retorted Senator | Smoot, mot by prophecy but by abso- | lute figures that the timber of this | country Is being destroyed rapidly and | there is not anything like the amount | A.N~ nfSNr fhAFN | was twenty or even ten years ago. l Mir. Hepburn said he objected to the | government setting up a lumber yard l and selling timber in any State Reading from document concern ing expenses of the forest service, he criticized statements of expenses as in' | definite,
 Senator Shoot said if the Senator l would refer to any item of expense, nc would give him the details.
 Senator Clark, of Wyoming. satc
 that Congress had sent for that infor
 nation and the department had noi
 sent it. He wanted to know how th'
 Senator from Utah had become th'
 mouthpiece of the department and MT
 Heyburn added that 1t was singular
 thaS khe Senator from Utah had under
 taken to answer questions for the de
 partment that Congress had fruttlessl!
 asksd the department to give.
 Mir. Hepburn read the names of of
 ncere of the American Forestry Asso
 ciation, declaring that Mir. Weyer
 houser, the second vice president
 'owned or claimed more timber un
 lawfully obtained than any other mai
 on earth" :"
 MT. Hepburn declared that it wa
 dangerous to talk about this man policy or that mans policy"
 The policy of country" he added
 'is the policy Of the people as foun'
 in the written law of the land ant
 when it is found anywhere else, it il
 fictitious. The people put their policie
 In the statute books. Yet we heal talk that the adritnistration's forestr.
 policy is here to stay. We will set
 whether it is here to stay or not" The senate adjourned with the asri
 cultural bill still uncompleted and thu | forestry question undisposed of.