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interest were Senator McNary of Oregon, Senator 

 Aiken of Vermont, Senator Thye of Minnesota. Senator 

 Ray Pittinan of Nevada led the senatorial fight to keep 

 President F.D.Roosevelt from transferring the Forest 

 Service to the Interior Department at the behest of 

 Harold Ickes, Secretary of the Interior. At one time 

 when it appeared the FDR was about to yield to Ickes, 

 despite the President s promise to several senators, 

 it was reported that James Byrnes, then Majority Leader 

 in the Senate, told the President he would have to 

 denounce him on the Senate floor if he reneged on his 

 commitments to Senator Pittman and others. That ended 

 it. 



Senator Hayden of Arizona and Senator Anderson of 

 New Mexico have been outstanding in their support. In 

 the House men like Blatnik of Minnesota and Saylor of 

 Pennsylvania have stood strongly for the good causes in 

 conservation, including support for the Forest Service. 



As to the key committees, the Forest Service has 

 generally fared well at the hands of the Committee on 

 Agriculture and Forestry in the Senate and the Committee 

 on Agriculture in the House. We had mixed results with 

 the appropriation tJommittees. Some chairmen of the sub 

 committees dealing with Forest Service appropriations 



