Los Angeles herald., 1908-05-08
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Teller of Colorado criticises Timber
Reservation as IAN Unmitigated
Curse"-Extended Discuss
sion INDUCED In
BY Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May I'm reply to
Mr.. Heyburns attack upon the for
Senator Depew of New York today in
the senate spoke at length in defense
of forestry reserves and the reforestra-
tion of denuded lands. Only the other
day, he said, New York received
100000 trees from Germany for Use in
reforestration of the Adirondacks.
He commended the action of Presi-
dent Cleveland in inaugurating the
system by setting aside 20,000,000 acres
which was increased to 40,000,000 acres
under President Mckinley, and is now
$50, 900, 900 acres. In the last two years,
he said, France has spent $50,000,000
for reforestration in view of the enor-
nous damage to property and the
homes of the people by floods.
Mr.. Teller said the work Of New
York state in reforestration was the
kind he approved. He objected to hav-
ing the general government go into
that business. 1t was for the states to
do such work within their borders. He
objected to the voting of lump sum
of $500,000 for the forestry division.
Crticises Expenditures
Mr.. Teller referred to the appropria-
tion of $4,000 for the department of
justice to be used for prosecutions un-
der the antitrust law. The money had
been expended, he said, for salaries and
otherwise and as a consequence con-
gress had had nothing to do with fix
ing the salaries. One man, he said,
had been paid $4,000.
HE had been," said Mr. Teller, Gin
the service of the department on SAL
ary. He resigned and went to New
York, and finding he could not make
enough money there, came back to
Washington and got that work from
the government, making $4,000 a
year"
A newspaper of the northwest, he
said, had stated that Mr.. Heney, a
government prosecutor, received $780,
900 year.
Mr.. Teller declared that the forestry
reservations "were an unmitigated
curse and not blessing"
One Big Sum Spent
Reading from a memorandum of
expenditures of the division he said
$259,000 was spent in a lump sum.
Congress, he added, had nothing to do
with fixing the salaries included in
that amount.
Prefacing his statement with the
remark that he was responsible for
what he said, Mr.. Teller declared he
knew that the forestry division spends
thousands and thousands of dollars in
a propaganda in the interest of reserv-
alton.
"They employ people in the colleges" +"
he said, land can see no service they
can render except to influence opinion
in favor of the forestry service"
did the senator say" inquired Mr..
Culberson, "they pay professors and
school teachers for their infiuence?"
Il said that was my inference re-
sponded Mr. Teller. 1.-THE department
had propaganda-men all over the
country advocating forest reservations
and in my judgment they were on
the payroll for that purpose"
Mr. Teller spoke of receiving letters
favoring forest reserves and added
that he believed these letters were pre-
pared by somebody connected with the
department.
Refers to Recent Law
Mr.. Teller, referring to the law of
last year prohibiting the president
from including any land in Colorado,
Montana, Idaho, Washington, Oregon
and Wyoming in forest reserves. said:
Before the president signed the law
and after 1t had passed congress he
did make some additions to these
reservations"
Mr.. Hepburn interposed to say the
amount of such additions was 20O00,OOO
acres.
"Does the senator mean to say that
was done after congress acted?" in
quired Mr. Bacon.
'Tt was done,' Mr.. Teller replied,
"after the bill left the house and SEN
ate and pending the presidents sig
nature to the BILL"
Extended discussion of the expendi-
lures of the forestry bureau for pub
licity work of various kinds called
forth a vigorous denial by Mr.. Smoot
that forester had attended conven-
tion and charged his expenses to the
''hay and grain account"
Asked by Senator Foraker what he