Daily Arizona silver belt., 1908-05-09
SENATOR TELLER MAKES BITTER
 ATTACK 0N FORESTRY SERVICE
Objects to Government Going Into Forestry Business and Says It Is For the States to Do Such Work-Decares
 Appropriation All For Salaries
SAYS AENEY GETS sso,oOo
Budget, He Asserts, Is Used In Propaganda In interest of
 Reservations

WASHINGTON, May S.--In reply to Senator Hepburn g attack upon the for. estry policy of the administration, Sen. ator Depew of New York today in the senate spoke at length in defense of for. estry reserves and the re.forestration of denuded lands.
 Senator Teller of Colorado objected to having the general government go into the forestry business. It is for the states to do such work within their borders, he said He objected to voting lump sum of $50O,00O for the forestry division.
 Teller referred to the appropriation of s500,OO0 IS being for the department of justice to be used for prosecution under the antitrust law. The money has been expended, he said, for salaries, and otherwise, and as consequence congress has nothing to do with the fix. ing of salaries. On man, he said, has been paid $l6,00O year.
 ''He has been," said Teller, Gin the service of the department on that sal ary. He resigned and went to New York, and finding that he could not make enough money there, he came back to Washington and got that work from the government, making $l6,O00 a year.
 A newspaper in the northwest, he said, stated that Heney, the govern. ment prosecutor, received $50, 0,o00 year from the appropriation.
 Teller declared the forestry reserva- tions "were an unmitigated curse and not blessing"
 Reading from a memorandum of the expenditures of the division, he said s259,00 had been spent in lump sum in salaries. Congress, he added, had nothing to do with the fixing of the salaries included in the amount.
 Prefaeing the statement with the re. sponsible for what he said, Teller de- ,lared that he knew the forestry divi- sion spends thousands upon thousands of dollars in propaganda In interest of the reservations.
 "They employ people in tho col. eges," he said, "and can see no service that they can render except to influence opinion in favor of tho for. estry service.'
 "Did the senator say,'' inquired Cul person, "that they pay professors and school teachers for their innuence'"
 "I said that was my inference" re- sponded Teller. "The department had propaganda men all over the country advocating forest reservations, and in my judgment they were on the pay roll for that purpose"
 Teller spoke of receiving letters fa- voring forest reserves and added that he believed these letters were prepared by somebody connected with the de. partment.
 Teller, referring to the law of last year prohibiting the president from in- cluding any land in Colorado, Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon and Wyo- ming in forest reserves, said: Before the president signed the law and after it was passed by congress, he did make some additions to these reservations.
 Senator Hepburn interposed to say the amount of such additions was 2O,- 0O0. 900 acres. "Does the senator mean to say that that was done after con gress acted7" inquired Bacon.
 "It was done," Teller replied, "af ter the bill left the house and senate and pending the presidents signature to the bill.
 Extended discussion of the expendi lures of the forestry bureau for pub licity work of various kinds called forth vigorous denial by Senator Shoot that a Utah forester attended political convention and charged his expenses to "hay and grain account"
 Asked by Senator Foraker what heI proposed to do about the bin, Teller said that he hoped to defeat the lump appropriation of $500,o00 for the for estry service, but that he knew how difficult it would be to do so.