| Show i i POINT OF ORDER WILL LIE LIEI 33 I Leasing Provision Will Be Elim Eliminated from Agricultural Bill 1 Washington Feb Fab 21 It was con conceded conI conceded i j ceded today to la hy hj senators in charge of ot I 1 j I the tho agricultural bill In the senate that I f 4 i the grazing lease lea e provision will be ellin elim eliminated T mated from the bill on a point of ot order 1 The reading of ot the bill was wast 1 t completed after atter most of the day had hadn 4 b bt ert n debate on n the forestry foresti system s stem and the grazing measure m amIr and It will again be considered tomorrow for f r final action An amendment was agreed to at the suggestion of ot Senator Nelson which S will add ach year ear to the appropriation t J for Cor agricultural colleges until the he total amount for each state for t I these colleges shall be Oooo annually Instead of OOOO as at nt present 1 Senator Patterson has haR given ghen notice of an amendment to tn segregate forest foresti i loser land cording according to their adaptability adaptability t as forest lands landI mining lands and andt agricultural lands t I Senator Patterson today tOlla opposed the 1 grazing land lease proposition I f j J S Senator Warren saying ying he was aware the provision would go out on a point s of or order nevertheless advocated ado It Mr Ir J Warren resented the tho charge that eec CEIl certain 1 4 tain senators had fenced In the public I I 4 I domain Personally Personal he lie said he did not noti i 1 have hae an acre a re of ot illegally fenced land 1 4 The farewell address of ot George Wash Washington ash ashi i I ington will be read In the senate to tomorrow tol tomorrow l I I morrow by Senator Burkett of ot Xe Ne Nebraska braska bra ka r It I Never Intended by Congress I I t S J t i tSi The constant no Y of the I to 1 of ot f forestry has hils been bet n to reach out and 1 I 1 gather t ther to tJ t Itself laW and power never neer contemplated by congress o asserted Mr Ir Clark tjark Such procedure Is detrimental injurious and destructive df to the interests f of ot r The Iho various ports parts of the country countr In t 1 the reserve S are art situated vIon In 1891 1811 congress s authorized the i Si Siti it lj l president to create a II forest reserve no noone noi 4 i f I one OM ever er contemplated that In this inlet brief ci time fJ sOar a mIles of land Iam should be beset bej j i If j d set et aside and closed to settlement settlementS S c Thc FIu area of foreit reserve Is I now All s I 1 large as the whole of ot New ew England with H the states Otates of Pennsylvania Pen New Xe York and Onto amounting to I acres i It now proposed In thU thie bill hill to with withdraw k ti f Ift draw 0 acres aros more the grazing I I j lands JAnd of ot the country and place this vast i l ij I domain n under the authority of or the tb chief chie of the ilie forestry bureau This ThU Is giving mote more dominion and power to one man manthan than is held by br any an individual on earth king kin or r potentate Talk about our where is the man except the chief of ot this tIll bu bureau bureau reau resu who control l anris aers of timber land Jand He lie can sell sel the timber to whom whan w om he be pleases ts at the IK fit ho selects and In tn such as lit in II IIma inma mar ma d bie bl to tD anyone I I J say the forest reserve Is i being made nade I the dam clam of the country The time I has hale come oom orne when hen a It be he called I It hit been impossible impost blo for tor ti u us of oC th west It who are ure affected by hy these thelle preserves to place before r the cast our proper attitude for or the man who raises rai es hi hl ills voice against a forest foret re reserves I is III at once denounced as a grafter and anil u a timber baron haron He Is Js at once In the tile press lre s as a of ot public domain Remarks by Mr Patterson Patterson Interrupted to say suj U be lie Intended to introduce an amendment pro prohibiting prohibiting a charge chure to be le made for grazing razing cattle attle on public lands Incidentally Mr Ir Patterson remarked I am a little tired of oC the adulation that thet has been heen poured out on the head 01 of thia chief of oC the bureau here In the sen senate senate senate ate When Mr Ir Clark said Bald It seemed t bo be botho bethe the tho intention of those in charge harge of if the forest reserves reserve to set up game preserves a series s of interruptions resulted and Senators Carter Spooner Beveridge Ful Fulton 1 ul ulton ton and Patterson dismissed discussed the legal rights of ot the general government over its public lands Asto s to Urn the per permitting permitting grazing leases Senator Clark said Its effect would be to stop perma permanent permanent nent neat settlement on ne oe public domain Senator Spooner defended Secretary I Hitchcock and the general administration of the land laws There might have hae been errors of oC judgment committed bY bv the sec see secretary of ot the interior he said but he hewan hewa was wan positive there was no ground for the slightest suspicion of oC his Integrity Mr Ir Spooner defended the th necessity for forest reserves and believed the tile future would demonstrate their wisdom He lie le Ie declared the big lumber companies had cut enough timber on government land to pay the national debt many man times over oer and that through carelessness of o cutting and unnecessary fires much more had been destroyed |
