Coeur d'Alene evening press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1907-1929, 1908-05-06
HEPBURN GRILLS
FOREST POLICY
'laimS it Is Not Practical Nor
Justified by Conditions


riculture may give permits for the
portation of timber from forest re-
ives, Senator Hepburn, during the
bate on the agricultural bill, pro-
bed chart of the forestry division.
ch was swung on the wall of the
ate chamber, marked with state
BITS as to the number of years the
ests in various parts of the country
bid last.
The forestry division, he said, was
nching into the realm of prophecy
len it declared that a certain sec
b would be shorn of its forests in
4 80 or 40 years. They forgot, he
ID, that timber grows, and he de-
\ red that the supply of timber is
great today as ever in the worlds
tory" There was, he said, no dan
Nd of timber famine.
Senator SmOot Objects.
Senator Smoot, taking exception to
statement that the worlds supply
timber was as great as ever, Sena-
Hepburn retorted that the senator
m Utah might consult the map on
senate wall as an argument which
Mr. Hepburn, did not doubt.
can prove" retorted Senator
pot, mot by prophesying, but by
Dlute figures, that timber of this
ntry is being destroyed rapidly
that there is not anything like
amount of timber in this country
there was 20, or even 10, years
!"
Senator Hepburn said he objected
the government setting up a lum-
yard and selling the timber. He
Ma once read a vivid description of
ID emotions of Adam in seeing the
nn go down, not Knowing that it
Tonld ever rise again. That remind
q him of the feeling of some people
hDut the forests who did not know
ID the forests would grow again.
mo BrainstOrms There"
Senator Burkett of Nebraska want
to know if the senator from Idaho
Shed to apply to all states with
lest reserves the prohibition of ex-
fting lumber from such states.
nator Hepburn said he did desire to
fevent the government from selling
M Der in any state. Reading from an
Union of the supreme court of the
tied States, Senator Hepburn de-
llred that there IS no hysteria in
nMt branch of the government; there
AFe no brainstorms there" The for
sers are being supplied with splen-
Ia yachts, SO they can speed from
e imaginary fire to another along
lakes of Idaho.
| have seen them" he said, Toll
around the hotels of the watering
ices dressed in green, with cooked
S, emulating the foresters of the
Rck forest of Germany. They have
bse uniforms of pale green, so that
by may not be taken for duck or
me animal and so that they can slip
v on the trespassers who come there
destroy these forests. The whole
# Ing has become ridiculous" he said.
Criticizes Expense Statement.
Senator Hepburn, reading from a
cument concerning expenses of the
rest service. criticized statements
expenses as indifinite.
Senator Clark of Wyoming said
at congress had sent for the infor-
atiOn as to the forests and the de-
rtment had not sent It, He wanted
know how the senator from Utah
id become the mouthpiece of the de-
rtment.
Senator Hepburn argued that it
hs singular that the senator from
all had undertaken to answer ques-
pms that congress had fruitlessly
ked the department to give. Sena-
Smoot again offering information,
,, Hepburn retorted: Il do not in
nd to recognize the senator as the
preventative here of the department
agriculture, which is under the
ntrol Of congress. There is no rep
sentative from that department in
cordance with the provisions of the
h."
Senator Hepburn read the names OF
Ulcers of the American Forestry as
eiation. declaring that Mr.. Weyer-
Aeuser. the second vice president,
Ened or claimed more timber I'M
wfully than any man on earth.