Show BUT LITTLE GLORY Clevelands Forestry Proclamation is Mercilessly Criticized by the Senators Sen-ators Washington Feb 28The senate tonight to-night on the discussion of the amendment amend-ment to the sundry civil bill restoring to the public domain some 21000000 acres as a forest reservation Mr Clark who offered the amendment said that the order was Issued on the recommendation recommen-dation of a class of scientists who think more of forest trees than of roof trees and more of the life of a tree than the life of a man The order I meant that settlers on the reservation reeraton cculd not cut a stick of firewood and that the gold mines on one of the reservations I reser-vations in South Dakota would have to close down for lack of timber He was aware that the insertion pf this amendment in the bill would probably lead to its veto but he for owe was ready to meet the president on this ground This order would mean the retardIng I retard-Ing of the development in the west and the subject was of most vital interest to the land laws of the west than the senators of of the east had any conception ofMr Mr Carter of Montana who was commissioner of the general office during dur-ing General Harrisons administration supported the amendment As an example ample of the injury wrought by the order or-der he mentioned the case of the great Anaconda mine near Butte Mont which requires a carload of timber every day to prop up the levels and galleries of the mine and protect the I lives of the miners and the land from which all this timber was cut must ccme in part at least from one of the forest reservations Another case in I point was that of the old and the famous fa-mous Homestead mine In South Dakota Da-kota No one who was Interested in I I this matter had been consulted prior I to the promulgation of this order and he believed that the president would not hesitate to rescind the order when he thoroughly understood the true condition con-dition Mr Cannon Rep Utah also supported sup-ported the amendment and declared I that not one of the 14 senators from these western states affected had been consulted before the order was issued consled orer Mr Lindsay Barn Ky Inquired whether the adoption of an amendment amend-ment excepting domestic and mining timber from the operation of the order would be satisfactory Mr Cannon said he would prefer to have the order stand a It Is rather than have this order temporized The amendment was supported by Senators Stewart SII Nev Petti grew SII S D Wilson Rep Wash Dubois SII Ida and Mantle Man-tle Rep Mont the latter asserting that in his state there were thousands and thousands of acres included in this order on which there was not a stick of timber The amendment was then unanimously unanimous-ly adopted |