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Show HEYBURH IS AFTER APOSTLE-SENATOR Idaho Statesman Throws Down Gage of Battle to Administration Adminis-tration in Fiery Speech. REPLYIXG TO SM00T OX QUESTION OF AUTHORITY Declares Gem State Will Not Stand for Lawless Work of Forestry Service. WASHINGTON, March S. Hereafter Idaho will brook no 'opposition from the forestry service of the. United States on' school sections within the forest reservations reserva-tions of that stitc. Senator Hey burn made this announcement while tho agri-culturarappropriation agri-culturarappropriation bill was under discussion dis-cussion in the senate today. He was speaking of the right of the government to include the. school sections In Its supervision of rencrvallon areas, and, In this connection. Mr. Snioot raised the point that the national authority was supp-ine. If the land had not been sur-cyed. sur-cyed. Mr. Smoot said that even when th- forestry service hail cut timber on the unsurvcyed sections. It had turned over to the state -'5 per cent of the proceeds. Stinging Answer Given. '"That,'' responded Mr. Heyburn. "sounds like a. chapter from the life of Dick Turpin, who. when he found his victims vic-tims stranded by his depredations, would give them enough of their own money to buy breakfast." He went on lo say lhat the recent administration ad-ministration of forest reservations had been utterly rcKardlcsa of law. "And lei it be known," -he thundered, "that from this time on, Idaho proposes to administer its own hinds. The authorities authori-ties have been Instructed of their com-I com-I petcney In this respect, and they will protect pro-tect their interests. If they are disturbed bv the foresters, they will invoke the aid of the state constabulary." "Mow arc you going to locato your lands If they are not surveyed?" questioned ques-tioned Mr. F.urkctt. Gorl "Located" Land. "Land is always "put." You don't have to locate land," he retorted. "God located lo-cated It befoie the flood." Mr. Heyburn charged the forester? with accepting bounty money from the states for the killing of predatory wild animals, although this Is one of their duties. The Idaho senator went Into detail In deperlbing Instances in which settlers had been evicted from their homes within the reserves for no other reason, he said, than that the foresters wanted tho use of their Improvements. ( In reply to Mr. Shively, he said these iroecodlng3 were absolutely uvbitrary and without sanction of lcgnl authority. In this latter statement, Mr. Heyburn was corroborated by hln colleague. Mr. Boroh, who said the forestry officials onsltute themselves Judges, jury and prosecuting attorne in these proceedings, proceed-ings, "dlsiefcrtrdlng almost every law for he protection of men. which has bren adopted by civilized society." No explanation or cause was ever civen to tho victim of these arbitrary proceedings, proceed-ings, he said. |