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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



March y 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION IN CONGRESS. 



MONTH OF FEBRUARY, 1902. 



February J. 



Resolution of the Pennsylvania State 

 Board of Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa., 

 in relation to the sale of public lands, 

 the manufacture of oleomargarine, and 

 the irrigation of the arid lands, intro- 

 duced in the House by Mr. Burk. 



February 3. 



Resolution of the Owosso Federal 

 Labor Union, No. 9056, of Owosso, 

 Mich., favoring the government irriga- 

 tion of public lands. Petition of the 

 Lansing (Mich.) Typographical Union, 

 No. 72, relating to the desert-land bill, 

 the irrigation bill, and public land for 

 settlers. Also petition of 26 citizens 

 and land-owners in the district of Koo- 

 lau, Maui, Territory of Hawaii, against 

 the granting by the United States Gov- 

 ernment, or by the Territory of Hawaii, 

 to any corporation or individual, of the 

 water privileges. To the Committee on 

 the Territories. 



February 4. 



Resolved by the Senate (the House 

 of Representatives concurring), that 

 there be printed 10,000 copies of Senate 

 Document No. 84, being a message from 

 the President of the United States trans- 

 mitting a report from the Secretary of 

 Agriculture in relation to the forests, 

 rivers, and mountains of the Southern 

 Appalachian region, of which 2,000 

 copies shall be for the use of the Senate, 

 3,000 copies for the use of the House 

 of Representatives, and 5,000 copies for 

 the use of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. 



In the Senate, Mr. Warren, of Wyo- 

 ming, introduced a petition of the Retail 

 lyumber Dealers' Association of Wyo- 

 ming, Colorado, and New Mexico, of 

 Colorado Springs, Colo., praying for 

 the enactment of legislation providing 

 for the construction of a S}'stem of reser- 

 voirs throughout the arid West for the 

 storage of its surplus waters, to be used 

 for general irrigation purposes ; which 

 was referred to the Committee on Irri- 

 gation and Reclamation of Arid Uands. 



February 5* 



By Mr. Kean: A memorial of Pomona 

 Grange, No. i, Patrons of Husbandry, 

 of Moorestovyn, N. J., remonstrating 

 against the enactment of legislation au- 

 thorizing the irrigation of the public 

 lands of the West at public expense. 



By Mr. Pritchard, from the Commit- 

 tee on Forest Reservations and Protec- 

 tion of Game, to whom was referred the 

 bill for the purchase of a national park 

 in the Southern Appalachian Moun- 

 tains, reported it without amendment, 

 and submitted a report thereon. 



February 6. 



In the Senate, Mr. Penrose presented 

 the petition of Local Union, No. 228, 

 United Brotherhood of Carpenters and 

 Joiners of America, of Pottsville, Pa., 

 praying for the enactment of legislation 

 providing for the preservation of the re- 

 maining public lands of the United States 

 for the use of actual settlers and home- 

 builders thereon. 



Mr. Piatt, of New York, submitted a 

 joint resolution authorizing the Presi- 

 dent of the United States to invite the 

 government of Canada to join in the 

 formation of an international commis- 

 sion to examine and report upon the di- 

 version of the waters that are the bound- 

 aries of the two countries; which was 

 read twice by its title and referred to 

 the Committee on Commerce. 



February 7. 



In the Senate, Mr. Proctor presented 

 petitions of the Typographical Union, 

 No. 402, of Barre, and of Garment 

 Workers' Union, No. 32, of Brattleboro, 

 in the State of Vermont, praying for the 

 repeal of the so-called desert-land act, 

 that an appropriation be made for ir- 

 rigation surveys, and remonstrating 

 against the granting of public lands. 



In the House, by Mr. Haugen : A bill 

 to provide rules and regulations govern- 

 ing the importation of trees, plants, 

 shrubs, vines, grafts, cuttings, and buds, 

 commonly known as nursery stock, and 

 fruits into the United States, and rules 

 and regulations for the inspection of 



