1902. 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



135 



trees, plants, shrubs, vines, grafts, cut- 

 tings, and buds, commonly known as 

 nursery stock, grown within the United 

 States, which become subjects of inter- 

 state commerce or exportation. 



By Mr. Bell : Resolution of Fruit 

 Growers' Association of Boulder, Colo- 

 rado, favoring government reclamation 

 of arid lands. 



February 10. 



In the House, by Mr. Shafroth : Reso- 

 lution of the Colorado State Horticult- 

 ural Society, favoring government recla- 

 mation of arid lands. 



February J i , 



In the Senate, by Mr. Teller: Petitions 

 of the Colorado State Horticultural So- 

 ciety ; of the Colorado State Grange, 

 Patrons of Husbandr}^ and of the 

 Fruit Growers' Association of Boulder 

 County, favoring government reclama- 

 tion of arid lands. 



February J 2. 



In the Senate, by Mr. Gibson: ' 'I move 

 that the pamphlet entitled 'The Nation 

 as a Land Owner,' by J. D. Whelpley, 

 reprinted, by permission of Harper & 

 Bros., from Harpers^ Weekly, issues of 

 November 30, December 7, and Decem- 

 ber 14, 1 90 1, be printed as a document 

 and referred to the Committee on Public 

 Lands. It is an interesting statement 

 of the present condition of the public 

 lands, and also contains something on 

 the question of irrigation." The mo- 

 tion was agreed to. 



February 17. 



In the House, by Mr. Alexander : 

 Resolutions of the National Building 

 Trades Council of America in relation 

 to the arid-land measure. To the Com- 

 mittee on the Irrigation of the Arid 

 Lands. 



February 18. 



In the Senate, by Mr. Kean : Memo- 

 rial of the State Local Grange, No. 8, 

 Patrons of Husbandry, of Moorestown, 

 N. J., remonstrating against the irriga- 

 tion of the arid lands of the United 

 States at public expense. Also by Mr. 

 Kean: Petition of Federal Labor Union, 

 No. 72 1 1 , American Federation of Labor, 



of Dover, N. J., praying for the con- 

 struction of irrigating reservoirs and re- 

 monstrating against granting state con- 

 trol to government lands. 



By Mr. Beveridge : Petition of the 

 Local Union, No. 652, United Brother- 

 hood of Carpenters and Joiners, of El- 

 wood, Ind., praying for the repeal of 

 the so-called desert-land act, for the 

 commutation of the homestead act, and 

 that an appropriation be made for irriga- 

 tion sur\^e3'S, etc. 



In the House, by Mr. Tongue (by re- 

 quest ) : A bill appropriating the receipts 

 from the sale and disposal of the public 

 lands in certain states and territories, to 

 ascertain the extent to which said lands 

 may be reclaimed, and to authorize the 

 taxation of public lands under certain 

 conditions. 



February 19. 



In the House, by Mr. Lacey, from the 

 Committee on the Public Lands, to 

 which was referred the bill of the House 

 to set apart certain lands in the Terri- 

 tory of Arizona as a public park, to be 

 known as the Petrified Forest National 

 Park, reported the same with amend- 

 ments, accompanied by a report. 



By Mr. Woods : A bill providing the 

 means for acquiring title to two groves 

 of Sequoia gigantea in the State of Cali- 

 fornia, with a view to making national 

 parks thereof. 



February 20. 



In the House, b}^ Mr. Acheson : Res- 

 olutions of the Engineers' Club of Phil- 

 adelphia, Pa., for securing a national 

 forest reserve in the Appalachian Moun- 

 tains. 



February 21. 



In the House, by Mr. Rumple : Peti- 

 tion of the Amalgamated Wood Work- 

 ers' Union, No. 92, Clinton, Iowa, ask- 

 ing for the repeal of the desert-land act 

 and the commutation clause of the 

 homestead act, and urging appropria- 

 tion for government surveys and con- 

 struction of reservoirs. 



February 24. 



In the House, by Mr. Babcock : Res- 

 olution of the Board of Trade of La 

 Crosse, Wis., favoring a national park 



