Show STINGING CRITICISM OF THE UNITED STATES LAND lAWS LAW ci 1 Washington Jan Am American forestry oon resumed Its Ita session to day The reed read at the lne morning related fated to tile the subject or of Lumber Lamber Industry and the Fure Forests ts Discussing the Subject of the Pacific Ie cost coast forests as differing from others P Emerson of Requiem said that the tion cit t many melh ineth od otis of oC forest ada adapted ed to woods was wa impossible Mr Em erson ereon sev severely criticised some features of the bo homestead teul laws saying that the general land jand had eased the con sciences of settlers rs tn in perfecting their proof bl be declaring all lAnd not stony slony or gravelly gravell WItS was agricultural gh he saId never In the lifetime of those did they expect to see anything gro on the land but timber r Public n he added had haa approved such an or of the ridiculous law Jaw and he said that the government not the set should be Investigated The tint her bar act he be characterized as 8 having been framed In tho or of land grabber mute mutu and cnn Inay was tI heu tanu law lav uy I any one OM wiLful a tore St rt r to lilt thu rk aria una b tt u quat areas tat le let v C t C S Goor George P Ahern chief ot of tho tl 0 UI Or l tc tc give an i U nu W tit or tn u fliS aria tn tP LV Lu Ui I Ize ze me r ur of rae hui p pine n afternoon was waK presided over or or b by It F J ot theN a alet tonal Lh aiH the let or the Duing the Ce of the sorest aan s to Y v B of Utah a wool grow grower gro groer ir er defended the practice ot of sheep and cattle to 10 on rest I rations He declared that hat sheep Were a protection against forest fires because or orus their converting Into food mIllions o of tons to toof us I or of vegetation S |