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Show SEHATOS HEYBUitN FAILS 10 GET "AN 1 - APPHOPHIATIOS fOSfOSEST RESERVES COT WASHINGTON. March t Senator Harbor Har-bor of Idaho laat nlsht mad a futile attempt In tha aenata to reduce th annual an-nual axpeodlturea for th raalntenano of national foreet reearrea from more than Or million dollar to one million dollar, by lntrodoctn; an amend menl to th aarloultural bill, and brou-rht down oa hat hand th wrath of friend of th foraat eerrloe, who aald ha wa jrylnc to kill a eettled poller of th B-orernment. Tha flnMtlna n,. ! - . l Meaoro. Borah of Idaho and Oallhuor of New Hampahlr. To thee euMeetlooe. Mr. Heytmrn aald n propoaed to follow the amendment with another propoettlon. which. If adopted, adopt-ed, would eliminate at ioaat a third of the fort rervs. Referenc wa made by Senator Flint of California to th dlaaatroua foraat fire of laat year. He aald th appropriation ou-ht to b Increased o that tha cr-tary cr-tary of agriculture mif ht (o oh bulldlrul trail and firebreak. Attention wa aiao directed to th fact that It oonta more than two mllll. th acrtculturai appropriation bill.- Th amendment waa defeated. 60 to II. 'ThI amendment oomea from nn open. frank and avowed enemy of th foreet policy of the United Stat." vehemently declared Senator Root of New York. ,. "Lpon th propoaal of a elnxle enemy of a aattled policy of the rovamm.nt w are aaked to take thla step. Trier ha been no report of a committee in .upport of It: It come without rooommondation. and I nroteat aaaloat It". Ooinf Too Far. SevaraJ eanetora aald they thoncht the roreat aervloe waa too costly and that th appropriation ou-ht to be reduced, but that the amendment offered by Mr. Hey. bum went too far, Aroonr thee w-re lars to pay aalarie and rental la th city of Waahlnston for the foreet servlr. Mr. Heybura aald th Wuhlncton x-penee x-penee wa wasted untcaa It waa propoaed to nnht nraa by wtreleee telesraph. which he atd would be )oat a feasible a aom of th methoda that have been used He thought .the million dollars he proposed to bar apnded would be sufficient for th bulldlns; of trails Mr. Heybura aald that In on way and another eon-(reaa eon-(reaa I approprlatln; almost lA.00n.0O0 annually for th protection of the forest. for-est. H ehsrad tn foretr with nsinc th maervee for their own beneAL H alleaed that profit la mad by collecting col-lecting bounties for kllllna wild animal. 'Thy create th reserves, prevent others from nun Una. kilt the am themselves and aoUeot from th atat. They have a prtvat anap." ha aald. Clark Dsoounc Sanrlco. kenator Clark of Wyomlnr denounced th fore try ay.t.m in warm terma and In doing ao ha warned the eastern senators sena-tors that th time would come when they would rue the day they had procured pro-cured th aautmahmant of raaerv in - - eeewe BTOUiarO Appalachian. H aaJd th weatera peenle had been foroad to aocapt th reaerv aaalnat their will with th reault that they wer prevented from developing- tb rourcfl of th country. Mr, Overman of North Carolina made aom Inquiries concerning- tb natlonai nureerle. Replying-. Senator Nelson undertook un-dertook to tell about th forestry nur-seiies nur-seiies In Alaska and allotted a burst of laushtw by relating that when ha waa a boy ha had worked In a nursery, "where." h said, "wa did a llttl graft-In graft-In th same connect Ion Mr. Heytmrn said th tres seed used In th nurserlea wer obtained largely through being In th nasi, of armtrrel. He' said he knew of afaty-Sv bushel gathered from that source. Speaking of th forester. Mr. May-burn May-burn declared that they wr recruited from th .astern state. "They sre sucker grafters,' ho said, and defining grafters, said: "Th grafter la not the man Who pokes his hand Into a till and takes out what he rets hold of; he Is the man who attaches at-taches himself to soma other man's prop arty and draw It away from him." feacoad Atresndrrssat hy Heybura. After th defeat of th amendment proposing to decrease the appropriation for foreet preservation. Mr. Heytmrn offered of-fered another propoaltlon to prohibit the eipendlture of any part 'of the foreet service appropriation upon forests growing grow-ing leas than four thousand feet of merchantable mer-chantable lumber per acre in contiguous areas of 160 seres. hs sain tne amendment would eliminate elimi-nate mora than one-UUrd of the forest reserves. Speaking hi support of this amendment. Mr. Clark said that "under the ezlatina; policy men wer living; in western Bta.ta as tenants of the oemment.' He served notloe that when another Mil ts piveented to the senate the ffarernment will have to show some reason for the expenditure of such vast sums as are bein poured Into the forests. Vnoer the policy of the government Mr. Tlarit said a '"commercial proposition" was be in made of the western states. The committee com-mittee of the whole finally accepted tfts amendment. Among tha various amendments sdopt-d sdopt-d was an appropriation of t-'O.&'iO to assist In raring for starvlns; elk in the J kaon Hole country of Wyomins;. The agricultural approprlatloa blU pastMil without a soUcail. " |