418 United States. 



timberlands, a preliminary report was submitted recom- 

 mending the creation of thirteen additional reservations, 

 with an area of over 20 million acres, and later a com- 

 plete report was made with practically the same recom- 

 mendations which had been urged by the Forestry As- 

 sociation. 



President Cleveland, heroically, proclaimed the desired 

 reserves all on one day, Washington's birthday, 1897, 

 without the usual preliminary ascertainment of local 

 interests, and immediately a storm broke loose in the 

 United States Senate, which threatened the overthrow 

 of the entire, toilsomely achieved reservation policy; 

 and impeachment of the President was strongly argued 

 in a two-day (Sunday) session. Congress, however. 



Correction page 419 the last two lines in the third paragraph: 



By 1905, some 110,000 square miles had been 

 examined, when the whole matter was turned over 

 to the Forest Survey. 



for the temporary suspension of the reservations lately 

 set aside until they could be more definitely delimited, 

 private claims adjusted, and agricultural lands excluded, 

 by a survey, for which $150,000 was appropriated to the 

 United States Geological Survey. The agricultural 

 lands were then to be returned to the public domain for 

 disposal. At the same time, provisions for the adminis- 

 tration of the remaining reservations, much in the sense 

 of the legislation advocated by the Division of Forestry 



