HOW THE HOUSE VOTED 



An Analysis of the Vote of March 1, 1909, in the House of Representa^' 



tives on the Weeks Bill 



By EDWIN A, START, Boston, Mass, 



ON THE I St of March, 1909, the 

 Weeks bill, so-called, reported 

 by a majority of the Committee 

 on Agriculture, was debated for two 

 hours in the House of Representatives 

 and passed by a vote of 157 to 147. 

 While no mention was made in the 

 bill of the Southern Appalachian or 

 White Mountain forests, the measure 

 being general in its form, it was un- 

 derstood to be framed primarily in 

 the interest of these great national 

 projects, they being conceded to be the 



most urgently needed enterprises in the 

 way of water protection. Votes for 

 or against this bill were therefore 

 votes for or against the Appalach- 

 ian forests. As this was the only time 

 in which the question had come to an 

 issue on the floor of the House a care- 

 ful study of the vote is worth while and 

 we ask the attention of the press and 

 friends of the measure throughout the 

 country to the data given below. 

 How did your representative vote? 



THE ROLL CALL 



The Vote in the House of Representatives on the So-called "Weeks Bill," S, 4825, on March 1, 1909, 



Was as Follows! 



YEAS, 157 



348 



