The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-04-06
APPROVES TIE PLAN.
Longs Garden City Forest Reserve
Proposition Acted Upon.


ment of agriculture has approved the
plan Of Senator Long, and, through his
intercession, the joint plan also of the
entire delegation, that the Garden City
forest reserve be enlarged, so as to
include that sand hill territory running
west from Garden City to the Colorado
line. south Of the Arkansas river.
Senator Long expects that the for
NAL details will be closed up without
great delay, and the proclamation will
be issued by the president during the
spring or early summer.
The future Garden City reserve will
include something like 100000 acres,
and will be put into shape as soon as
possible. Much seeding will be done
this spring, and more next. The de-
partment has established a nursery at
Garden City for this purpose, upon the
request of Senator Long and Judge
Madison.
In the report, the department says:
In view of the fact that the sand
hill area is considered of value for tree
planting purposes. and the future de-
mand for fuel. posts, etc, will un-
questionably be great; and also be-
cause most of the people living in the
small towns, and settlers on farms and
ranches adjacent to the sandhills. are
in favor Of reserving the entire sand
hill region for forestry purposes, it is
of the Garden City forest be extended
to include all the land within the pro-
posed addition. and also all the sand
hill areas Immediately south of the
Arkansas river, and lying between the
west boundary of the Withdrawn addi-
ton and the Colorado state line. The
boundaries of this extension should be,
as far practicable. as indicated
Possibly the most important detail
of all the work done along this line this
winter by Senator Long and Judge
Madison is the fact that, in due time,
there will be resident supervisor with
headquarters at Garden City. At pres
ent, the administration of this forest is
accomplished from Halsey, Nebraska,
but the Kansas forest will soon be
made a separate unit.
At the dinner given the other night
by John c. Nicholson, state agent, 10
the members of the Kansas delegation,
their secretaries, and other Kansas
attaches and officials at Washington,
several stories and incidents were rela-
ted. One of them was worth noticing.
1t was related by Senator Long. during
the discussion that arose as to Kan
sas claims that Mr.. Nicholson had
pressed. The senator recalled, in con-
nection with the University of Kansas
claim for the old Free State hotel, an
had placed in the omnibus claims bill.
the appearance of himself, Senator
Curtis, and John Nicholson one morn
ing not long ago before the claims
committee. With them went DIR. Ed
ward Everett Hale, preacher, orator,
author, philosopher, and chaplain OF
the senate, long since past his eightfeth
year. DIR. Hale has been much inter-
| ested in the clamp and helped the SEN
ators. Senator Long said it was re-
markable that this man, still active,
| had been president of an organization
still in existence, older than the state
| itself, and older than either himself,
Senator Curtis, or Mr.. Nicholson, IL
was a long time since the destructlon
| Of the building, and the claim has just
| got in shape finally to be paid. DR.:
Hale has kept alivss the New England
| Emigrant Aid society purposely to as
| sign to the university this claim Tor
| $40, 900 for the destruction of the socl-
ety's building. q,
! This led Mr.. Scott to relate an in
cident that had struck him as re-
markable. A few years ago there
was a claims bill pending and under
discussion in the house of representa-
tives to pay some persons for. some
clothing that had been destroyed in
st. Louis before or just at the BEGIN
| ming OF the war of the rebellion. The
government of course had resisted
the claim, for more than forty years,
on the ground that it had been paid.
Robert r. Hit, a distinguished MEM
Der of the house, from Illinois, chair
| man of the committee on foreign af-
| fairs now dead, arose in his seat, and
made a short speech in favor of the
bill. He pointed to tall stack OF
memoranda and testimony on his
desk, and stated that he knew the
claim was just and should be paid,
because, at the time of the original In
vestigation of it, more than forty
years before, he, Hit, had been the
stenographer who had reported the
hearings The pile of documents. he
said. consisted of his notes, TRANSCRIPT
ed in longhand, before the days of
typewriters, and data and exhibits
| terrifying the claim. This passed the
bill; but Mr.. Scott thought 1T wonder
| full that this distinguished member,
old and grey, and full of fame, saved
a Just claim against the government
by testifying and proving that. in his
early youth, he had reported the in
yestieation. This shows the long life
of many claims, good and bad, before
congress. Mr.. Hit, 1t may be remem-
bered, as a very young man, reported
the famous Lincoln-Douglas debates
| in Illinois in 1858.
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