Salt Lake Tribune | 1910-06-15 | Page 1 | [Illegible] Goes after Pinchot

Hiiictcrizcs Former Forester iJ Apostle of Fallacy, Theory M and Ignorance. Withdrawal would mean 'MkMlh TO MINING IN WEST iSBfltor llnghes Declares Pos-Iprif.y Pos-Iprif.y Should Take Care of JJm Its Own Troubles. 'ASHINGTON, June 14. When tho ek ;l6 today resumed consideration of u2 Pbl,c Iand wltndm'n';l1 bl11' Mr" Iloy" iS v declared the proposition to wlth- r tho public landu for so-called con- iU' gtlon to be "a political impertinence or2 tbe part-of the people of tho East." Jtt.il j said In the great falls of the Poto- tiij jithere 'was "enough waterpower to , ft every wheel In tho District of Co- rirt innervation should begin at home, he i ana ne advised the national goy-Lant goy-Lant to give its attention to tho 1 n power possibilities near tho cer.- J 'of population, where they would he I available. , , , "ji eertlng that tho government had i it five times more than the receipts in MVm forestry policy, ho said: "Wo are lltl rlne on the national treasury to f te game preserves and solitude. I Slnlng the pending bill, he declared U purpose to be the withdrawal o'. t LtM tie public lands so as to leave them d'SM 'only to miners and prospectors, ch 3 hd now comes this apostle of fallacy. tL . ry and Ignorance, the ox-torcsler ot i ui United States, who Is reported to be tj2 6lng thrs exception," he udded. f Pnichot in Europe. IJJ daring the former forester had been r4 furone imbibing foreign Information 45 N 'doing some other things that wc w rlcss about." he said the government 3WM rtB never had found a mine. The Ion ii jquencc of the forest's policy would P io prevention of extension of mining .1; m le United States. Tho result would turn io. continued, that In another gen-iML'M gen-iML'M on the present mines would be r ma od out and there would be no more M vti lly in that direction. This, he said, m Wi d be the Inevitable result of follow-It follow-It It 'this censnr of the morals and mun-mco1 mun-mco1 lot he people." sjJET nator Hughes of Colorado, declared ,VT. jrescnt tendency was toward a feudal Si !m. "Ukc that which hud disgraced tS'ii rid and made progress In Germany -sslble." , , !r 2 Hughes scoffed at thc ideo- that ICcountry's resources were Doing cx- !J and declared it would tako POO to mlno the coal In Colorado alone. Won, he quoted reports of the gco-Hurvcy gco-Hurvcy to show there were 7000 pcn to coal mining in the world. "Amateur Finds Rebuke, tor Hughes declared that In the is and prosperity of the west the ite and the amntour who would i people what to do with the water r Btrcams would find a telling re-1 re-1 now tho men who have built up rcat region arc to bo taught In a jartcn school," he exclaimed, and that "this would be amusing if it ot tragic." ' tor Hughes took- the position that generations should work out tho ns of their day and said it was sirablc to make "molly-coddles" of y leaving them nothing to do. He continue to protest against any o that would retard the dcvelop-if dcvelop-if tho country as ho contended the ration policy would do. tor Carter offered as an amendment bill the provisions that heretofore Sicd the senate authorllnssg the is-S30,000,000 is-S30,000,000 of certificates of ir.-nees ir.-nees with which. to complete cxist-rlgatlon cxist-rlgatlon projects. Senator ilcy-ipposed ilcy-ipposed the amendment and th adjourned without action.