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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION. 



May, 



FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION IN CONGRESS. 



THE MONTH OF APRIL, I902. 



April 4. 



Mr. Burleson introduced a bill (H. 

 R. 1 3361) to provide for the equitable 

 distribution of the waters of the Rio 

 Grande River between the United States 

 of America and the United States of 

 Mexico. To the Committee on For- 

 eign Affairs. 



April 9. 



In the Senate, Mr. Clark, of Montana, 

 presented a petition of the Montana 

 -State Agricultural Association, pray- 

 ing for the enactment of legislation 

 providing for the irrigation of arid 

 lands of the West ; which was ordered 

 to lie on the table. 



April n. 



Mr. Burton submitted the following 

 concurrent resolution ; which was con- 

 sidered by unanimous consent, and 

 agreed to : Resolved by the Senate ( the 

 House of Representatives concurring), 

 That the President be requested to re- 

 turn to the Senate the bill (S. 4363) 

 granting the Central Arizona Railway 

 Company a right of way for railroad 

 purposes through the San Francisco 

 Mountains Forest Reserve. 



Mr. Moody, of North Carolina, from 

 the Committee on Agriculture, to which 

 was referred the bill of the House (H. 

 R. 3128) , reported as a substitute there- 

 for the bill of the House (H. R. 13523) 

 for the purchase of a national forest 

 reserve in the Southern Appalachian 

 Mountains, to be known as ' The Na- 

 tional Appalachian Forest Reserve," 

 accompanied by a report (No. 1547). 



April 14. 



Mr. Martin introduced a concurrent 

 resolution (H. C. Res. 49) providing for 

 the publication of 1,000 copies of the 

 "PreliminaryDescription of the Geology 

 and Water Resources of the Southern 

 Half of the Black Hills. ' ' To the Com- 

 mittee on Printing. 



The President pro tempore laid before 

 the Senate the following message from 



the President of the United States ; 

 which was read, and, on motion of Mr. 

 Burton, was, with the accompanying 

 bill, referred to the Committee on Pub- 

 lic Lands : 



To the Senate of the United States : 



In compliance with a resolution of 

 the Senate of the 12th instant (the 

 House of Representatives concurring), 

 I return herewith Senate bill No. 4363, 

 entitled "An act granting the Central 

 Arizona Railway Company a right of 

 way for railroad purposes through the 

 San Francisco Mountains Forest Re- 

 .ser\'e." Theodore Roosevei^t. 



April 15. 



The bill (H. R. 8326) to set apart 

 certain lands in the Territory of Arizona 

 as a public park, to be known as the 

 Petrified Forest National Park, was 

 read twice by its title, and referred to 

 the Committee on Public Lands. 



April 17. 



Mr. Cooper, of Wisconsin, introduced 

 in the House resolutions of the Wis- 

 consin Game Protective Association, in 

 favor of the conversion of all forest re- 

 serves in the western states into game 

 preserves. 



April 18. 



In the House, Mr. Tongue introduced 

 the following joint resolution; which 

 was referred to the Select Committee 

 on the Census and ordered to be printed : 



Resolved by the Senate and House of 

 Representatives of the United States of 

 America in Congress assembled. That 

 the Director of the Census be, and 

 hereby is, authorized and directed, 

 upon the completion of the volume of 

 agricultural statistics, the year eighteen 

 hundred and ninety-nine, to complete 

 and bring up to date of the year of the 

 crop year of nineteen hvindred and two 

 the statistics relating to irrigation, the 

 area of land reclaimed, the cost and 

 value of the works, and such other in- 

 formation as can be obtained bearing 

 upon the present condition of irriga^ 



