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Show Heyburn Tries to Induce Senate to Cut Appropriation for Reserves to $1,000,000. WESTERN SENATORS SUPPORT AMENDMENT Desired Action Not Taken, and Clark of Wyoming Serves Notice as to Future. WASHINGTON'. March 1. Senator Hoyburn of Idaho tonight mado a futile attempt in the senate to reduce the annual an-nual expenditures for tho maintenance of national forest reserves from more than five million dollars to ono million dollars, by introducing an amendment to the agricultural bill, and brought down on his head the wrath of friends of the forest service, who said he was trying to kill a settled policy of the government. The question arose in connection with the agricultural appropriation bill. The amendment was defeated, 50 to 10. "This amendment comes from an open, frank and avowed enemy of the forest policy of the Tiillcd States." vehemently declared Senator Root of New York. "Upon I ho proposal of a single enemy of a seltle.d policy of tho government we aro asked to tako this step. There has been no report of a committee. In support of it: It comes without .recommendation, and I protest against it." Service Said to Be Too Costly. Several senators said they thought the forest service was too costly and that the appropriations ought to be reduced, but that tho amendment offered by Mr. Heyburn Hey-burn went too far. Among these were Messrs. Borah of Idaho and Galllngcr of New Hampshire. To these suggestions, Mr. Heyhiirn said he proposed to follow the amendment with another proposition, which, if adopted, adopt-ed, would eliminate at least a third of tho forest reserves. Reference was made by Senator Flint of California to tho disastrous forest fires of last year. He said the appropriation ought to be Increased so that tho secretary secre-tary of agriculture might go on building trails and flrehreaks. Attention "was also directed lo the fact that It costs more than two million dollars dol-lars to pay salaries and ronials In tho city of Wnshlngron for the forest, service. Declares Expenditures Useless. Mr. llcyburn said the Washington expense ex-pense was wasted unless It was proposed to light tires by wireless telegraph, which he said would be just as feasible as some of the methods that have been used. He thought tho million dollars he proposed to have expended would be sufficient for the building of trails. Mr. Heyburn suld that in one way and another congress con-gress is appropriating almost ?8,000.000 annually for the protection of the forests. for-ests. He charged tho foresters with using thi reserves for their own bcncllt. He alleged that, profit Is made by col-.. col-.. i. ..... 1 1,.,. -,... ,..ii.i ...i.. ICClllln 'J'Jl''Ua rkiiuii(, nnu .niiiiiuin. "They create the reserves, prevent others from hunting, kill the came themselves and collect from tho stalx:. They have a private snap," he said. Senator Clark of Wyoming denounced the forestry system in warm terms and In doing so ho warned tho eastern senators sena-tors that the time would come when tbev would rue tho day they had procured pro-cured the establishment of reserves in the White mountains and the southern Appalachians- Reserves Forced upon the wost. He said the western people had been forced to accept the reserves against their will with the result that thoy were prevented from developing the resources of the country. Mr. Overman of North Carolina mnda somo inquiries concerning the national nurseries. Replying. Senator Nelson undertook un-dertook to tell about the forestry nurseries nur-series In Alaska and elicited a burst of laughter by relating that when he was a boy he had worked In a nui-scry, Continued on Pr.ge Two. FOREST POLICY IS MM UNDER FIRE Heyburn Attempts to Induce Senate to Cut Appropriation for Reserves. Continued from Pago Ono. "where." he said, "we did a littlo grafting." graft-ing." In tho same connection Mr. Heyburn said the treo seeds used In the nurseries were obtained lncely through being In thovncsts of squirrels. He said ho knew of sixty-five bushels gathered from that source. Speaking of the foresters, Mr. Hay-burn Hay-burn declared that they were recruited from the eastern states. "They aro suckers grafters," he said, and defining grafters, said: "The grafter Is not the man who pokes his hand Into-a till and takes out what ho gets hold of; he is1 tho man who attaches at-taches himself to some other man's property prop-erty and draws It away from him." Second Amendment by Hoyburn. After the defeat of the amendment proposing to decrease the appropriation for forest preservation, Mr. Heyburn offered of-fered another proposition to pi-ohlblt the cxpondlturo of any part of the forest service appropriation upon forests growing grow-ing less than four thousand feet of merchantable mer-chantable lumber per acre In contiguous areas of 160 acres. He said tho amendment would eliminate elimi-nate more than one-third of the forest reserves. Speaking In support of litis amendment, Mr Clnrk said that "under the oxistiug policy men were Hying in. western slates as 'tenants of tbe government.' " He served notice that when another bill Is presented to the senate the government will have ito show some reason for the expenditure of such vast sums as arc being pcured Into -tho. forests. I'nder the policy of the government Mr. Clark said a "commercial proposition" was being made of tho western states. The committee com-mittee of the whole finally accepted the amendment. Among the various amendments adopted adopt-ed was an appropriation of $20,000 to assist In caring for starving elk In the Jackson Hole country of Wyoming- The agricultural appropriation bill passed without a rollcall. |
