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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



April 



Demand Speaking of the refer- 



Immediate g^^-g Qf ^ certain bill to 

 Resurrection ^^^ ^^^^^ Committee on 



Judiciary, and the uproar thereby crea- 

 ted in the House, the Washington 

 Times of March 27th, says: 



"The House Judiciary Committee is 

 widely notorious as a grave-yard of 

 legislation sent to it — especially legis- 

 lation which is suspected of being 'pro- 

 gressive.' It is commonly supposed 

 that the committee is maintained for 

 this especial function." 



Attention is called to the fact that 

 that committee now has the Littlefield 

 Liquor Bill, the Appalachian Forest 

 Reserve Bill, the Anti-Injunction Bill, 

 and the Employers' Liability Bill still 

 before it and doesn't seem to be mak- 

 ing much progress with any one of 

 them, and the question is raised as to 

 why it should now, at this late day, be 

 burdened down with other great ques- 

 tions. 



Is this Judiciary Committee, not- 

 Avithstanding promises made of prompt 

 action, to be the "grave-yard" of the 

 Appalachian bill ? Perhaps the friends 

 of this measure would like to say some- 

 thing on this subject themselves. Here 

 are the names of the Judiciary Com- 

 mittee: Messrs. John J. Jenkins, of 

 Wisconsin; Richard Wayne Parker, 

 of New Jersey ; De Alva S. Alexander, 

 of New York; Charles E. Littlefield, 

 of Maine ; Charles O. Tirrell, of Mass- 

 achusetts; John A. Sterling, of Illi- 

 nois ; John H. Foster, of Indiana ; 

 Henry T. Bannon, of Ohio ; Reuben 

 O. Moon, of Pennsylvania ; Gerrit J. 

 Diekema, of Michigan ; George R. 

 Malby, of New York ; Henry S. Caul- 

 field, of Missouri; David A. De Ar- 

 mond, of Missouri ; Henry D. Clayton, 

 of Alabama; Robert L. Henry, of 

 Texas ; William G. Brantley, of Geor- 

 gia ; Charles C. Reid, of Arkansas ; 

 Edwin Y. Webb, of North Carolina. 



Let the friends of the Appalachian 

 Bill arise to this occasion and inform 

 these statesmen that this measure shall 

 not be buried in the Judiciary or any 

 other committee without their earnest 

 protest. 



Political The Ohio Republican 



ForirtT^^Sc P'^tform of March 4. 

 ores ry, c. j^gg^ contains the fol- 

 lowing plank : 



"Liberal appropriations for the im- 

 provement of waterways and harbors, 

 including the Ohio River and the 

 Great Lakes, in accordance with a 

 general plan which shall be compre- 

 hensive and just to all portions of the 

 country." 



The Nebraska Democratic platform, 

 adopted on the following day, March 

 5, contains the following: 



"We sympathize with the efiforts 

 put forth for the reclamation of the 

 arid lands of the West and urge the 

 largest possible use of irrigation in the 

 development of the country. We also 

 favor the reclamation of swamp lands 

 upon the same principle. 



"We favor the preservation of the 

 forests still remaining, and the re- 

 planting of the denuded districts in all 

 our mountain ranges, as well as the 

 forestation of the Western plains. 



"We tirge liberal appropriations for 

 the improvement and development of 

 the interior waterways, believing that 

 such expenditures will return a large 

 dividend in lessened cost of transpor- 

 tation." 



Let all the friends of these great 

 questions, whatever their party affilia- 

 tions, urge their parties on to the adop- 

 tionof liberal platform declarations on 

 the questions of forestry, irrigation, 

 waterways, and conservation of re- 

 sources; and then let them see to it 

 that, when power is placed in the 

 hands of parties, platform pledges are 

 fulfilled. 



The The consumption and 



Conference wa.ste of our natural re- 



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sources is proceedmg 



apace. But whenever efforts have 

 been made to meet this situation, diffi- 

 culties have arisen from the facts that 

 the conditions of one community are 

 afifected by the actions of another over 

 which it has no control ; that the pre- 

 servation of one form of natural 

 wealth involves the protection of 



