Show LESS tEss SUCCESS AT THE WINDUP Fight on Forestry Bureau Con Continued Continued Continued by Western Con Congressmen Congressmen gressmen ITEM REMAINS IN THE BILL h AGRICULTURAL COMMITTEE RE RESENTED RESENTED RESENTED ALL IMPUTATIONS Washington March 31 After having undergone many changes the thep paragraph of the agricultural appropriation bill re relating relating relating lating to the bureau of forestry forestT was final finally ly passed by the house of or representatives Mondell of Wyoming and Smith California f continued their attacks on the bureau and in this they were sup supported supported SUPported ported by Bonynge ol 02 Colorado arid and Cushman of Washington These embraced charges that the bu bureau burean reau rean had created timber monopolies In favor lavor of ot large jarge corporations illegally as assumed assumed umed jurisdiction over oer water rights be longing to the tho western wE W tern states and juggled with in order orner to obtain large Jarge ap from congress ss The work of the bureau was vigorously defended by b Hepburn of Iowa and Scott of ot Kansas Mr Bonynge of ot Colorado offered an amendment providing that no part of oC the appropriation shall be used by b either the secretary of agriculture or the bureau of forestry In the enforcement of any regu atton which prohibits or attempts to tp prohibit the citizens of the states stat s where in the national forests are located loca ed from for beneficial uses the wa waters waters Waters of 0 the national streams thereon ac according cording to the laws Jas of said aid states and the statutes of the United States No Right to Charge Air Mr Ir Bonynge read from a number of authorities to show that the government nt did not own the waters of ot streams On the other hand he lIe declared those waters were the property of the states and the government had no right to make a charge for them This contention was by b Mr Scott who said there was wag nothing pro found or unusual in the proposition Stripped of its legal phraseology the proposition of Mr Bonynge he said was to allow any Individual or corporation to toIse use Ise any land of ot the United States to the tile exclusion of cf any other Individual or cor corporation corporation without money mone anti and N without price The present conduct of the for forestry forestry forestry estry service said Mr Scott In ing a reasonable fee to be charged when a R corporation carries its works over land owned by the United States Is only such conduct as every private citizen exercises In the management of his hi own business Mr 11 amendment was de tle Another Charge by Mondell Mandell Mr Mondell was by b this time ready read with another Attack on the forestry bu bureau bureau bureau reau He charged that in Its tion lion citizens were In many man Instances de denied denied nied nl d right of way wa across a ross forest reserves The proposition Is Ii said he whether the states of Maryland Virginia West Virginia North Carolina South Carolina and even the th great grea state vt ot New York Yorka are a to become federal f d r provinces or re remain remain remain main a part of ot the tin sovereign states stales and whether this forestry bureau bur shall per persist persist in denying denIn the citizens the rights granted by b congress An amendment to ta meet this lIds criticism was lost Mr Ir Mondell next directed Afe 14 attention att t to the committee on t ana It had been in a reckless state of mind when it allowed d to forestry bureau more morp than had been be estimated for lor He charged that being a lump sum It H rould could be used for lor any purpose ing lag advertising The statement was by b Mr lr Scott who read a letter from rout Secre S cre tary Wilson iIRon saying lying the was to cover Items Mr Scott cott defend defended ed his commute declaring that It had prepared a very conservative bill Much Money Mon y Wasted Charging that the forestry bureau bUr aU had contrary to its claim expended annually ll over oel a million dollars dl art more than It Ure re received received Mr Mondell said sud that bureau goes gors on year alter after art r year juggling j fig figures figures ures He movell to strike out this the th para paragraph paragraph graph K aph appropriating for the th pro proper proper per and economical administration pro protection and md development ot of the national forests Mr Ir Hepburn speaking with much fer fervor fervor vor or criticised what he lie said were the against economy As to the forest service he lIe charged that the prin principal cipal opposition had come train from the com corn committee on public lands of ot which Mr Ir Mon Ion dell deli was tras the head Twelve of ot its mem he hI said were from the public land states but he questioned their right to the public domain of ot the United States State Every Eer citizen he contended had absolutely as much Interest In these government I movements for tor or the preservation preservation tion of our forests forest as those gentlemen have hae He sarcastically remarked that members of the public lands landi committee had hl d seen to it that every cery acre of land in their states waIf wast wa Improved It Is time he asserted they should be content with what they the have nave ave and not Insist on grasp graspIng graspIng Ing lug everything that still remains Refused to Yield 0 Mr Hepburn refused to lo yield to Mr Mondell ondell for a question and continuing said the United States St tes should follow the example of or European natIonS nation Iri conser conserving conserving ing Its Us forests to res ts But he said the mem memo members members 1 bers from the public land states are s re now putting up some most mot preposterous I claims He lie denied that the states tates owned the of ot the able streams I of the tho forests The water wat r he contended was nothing more than land with water lowing flowing through It I Incensed at the statements regarding 1 the public lands committee Mr Smith of ot i California sought to interrupt Mr Hep Hepburn Hepburn burn who however refused to yield You Yon dont don dare to Mr Smith re remarked remarked remarked marked 0 0 This nettled Mr Hepburn Oh said he I dont know that there is any an power the gentlemen possess to tomake tomake tomake make me fear tear any an question he may ask Remarks by Cushman Mr Cushman of If Washington made a vigorous reply to Mr Ir Hepburn He held up a map showing that the states in involved involved were all 11 located In the far west and said bald saidI 0 I 1 think the gentleman would Tint not look with such complacence on the forest ser service service service vice if that service would go Into his state and take twelve or fifteen counties out of the middle of oC Iowa and build a federal fence around It He was not he said crying out against a reasonable extension of the forest foret service but charged ed that it has been b en carried far beyond the point where it ought to go Apology by Smith Mr motion was wa lost where whereupon whereupOn upon up n Mr Smith apologized for tor his remark to Mr Hepburn which he said was a slip of ot the tongue Taking one more shot at the forest for st service he declared that this is not a a government by legislation but it is a government by strangulation Replying to Mr Cushman Mr Hepburn said there was no propriety In such a question or such a comparison In Iowa he said Eald the agricultural lands were be being being beIng ing Improved by a separation of O their th lr title from the government Not so with this great west he said It was an act of or largesse upon the part of ot the government I Ito to improve the waste spaces and make them th m blossom Into fertile lands for the I benefit of ol all the people veople The reading of ot the bill was resumed An amendment by b Mr Ir Humphreys of Wis Wisconsin to increase by the appropriation appropriation for or soil Investigations Investigation provoked a long hong debate After Arter many speeches had hait been made for lor and against the proposition It was carried to 88 The bill was laid aside asme less than half completed and the house at 5 p m ad adjourned adjourned burned |