298 AMERICAN FORESTRY 



No organization of any kind, no com- GILBERT N. HAUGEN, Fourth Iowa 



mittee, legislative or otherwise ; no body District. 



of men, legislative or otherwise, has WILLIS C. HAWLEY, First Oregon 

 ever acted otherwise than favorably District. 

 upon the principles involved in this bill. JOSEPH HOWELL, Utah. 

 Numerous senate and house committees PLEASANT T. CHAPMAN, Tiventy- 

 of this Congress have reported it favor- fourtJi Illinois District. 

 ably to their respective bodies. Three JACK BEALL, Fifth Texas District. 

 times it passed the senate and in the WILLIAM W. RUCKER, Second Mis- 

 last Congress passed the house by a souri District. 

 substantial majority. Three Presidents 



-McKinley, Roosevelt, and Taft- I" an editorial on another page some 



have been "its outspoken advocates. It comments are made upon the minority's 



has received the endorsement of every statement of the case which will sug- 



President of the country since agita- g efi t a reason for not printing it in full, 



tion in its behalf was begun. The al- Tll e report is so misleading that it nee Is 



most unanimous sentiment of the pro- to be checked by comparison with the 



gressive citizens of the country cle- records. As our readers would hardly 



mands favorable action upon it at our have patience for this task, and there is 



hands. Further delay cannot be justi- not s P a ce to make the necessary an- 



fied in view of the facts in possession notations here, it is necessary to leave 



of your committee. They warrant im- it with such comment as is made in the 



mediate action ; the country expects it. editorial above mentioned. 



One statement made by the minority 

 must be corrected, for it is untrue, and 



The above report has the approval of * .i"" 8 ** 8 well the disregard of facts 



the following eleven members of the Wlth whlch the re P ort was prepared. 



House Committee on Agriculture : fhe statement is made that "when this 



project was originally proposed, it in- 



WILLIAM W. COCKS, First NewYork eluded only the Appalachian Mountains. 



District. but the bill introduced to carry it into 



RALPH D. COLE, Eighth Ohio Dis- effect even then called for an appropria- 



tnct - tion of $10,000,000. Later the plan was 



JAMES C. MCLAUGHLIN, Nmth Mich- broadened to include the White Moun- 



igcm District tainSj and then a bm wag introduced 



CHARLES C. PRATT, Fourteenth Pcnn- ki f $30,000,000." 



sylvaniq District. AT *>,... , vo , , , 



' L. B. HANNA North Dakota. N bl11 has b u een introduced appropn- 



FRANK PLUMLEY, Second Vermont atmg any such amount as that last 



District named, and the chairman of the com- 



JOHN LAMB. Third Virginia District. mittee > who signed the minority report, 



ASBURY F. LEVER, Seventh South ought to know it. The largest appro- 



Carolina District. priation in any of the Appalachian bills 



AUGUSTUS O. STANLEY, Second Ken- was that carried by the Weeks bill as 



tncky District. passed by the House last year. That 



GORDON LEE, Seventh Georgia Dis- was a continuing appropriation and 



twct. would have totaled $21,000,000 in ten 



JAMES T. MCDERMOTT, Fourth Illi- years. 



It may be added that the supporters 



The minority report, dissenting from , f this le f slation have contended from 



these views, is signed by : the first that every year of delay would 



increase the ultimate cost to the nation 



CHA'RLES F. SCOTT, Second Kansas of what would have to be done sooner 



District. or later. 



