342 FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION June 



Mr. W. S. Harvey, of Philadelphia, "Forest reserves of the South and East 



designated as representative of the ar . e viia } for the preservation and perpetu- 



v -n \ ation of our waterways, for transportation 



American Forestry Association by the and protection of chea y p powerf an d essential 



Association s president, Hon. James to the extension of foreign trade, if we are 



'Wilson, spoke On behalf of the Amer- to maintain the American wage level in 



ican Forestry Association, the Com- competition with other manufacturing na- 



r tions. The Leever Bill, I believe, is consist- 



mittee on Forestry and Irrigation of cm with tho Constitutional requirements of 

 the National Board of Trade, and the the House Judiciary Committee, and satis- 

 State of Pennsylvania. He paid a factory to the friends of waterways and 



deserved tribute to Mr. Wilson and for , ests - u lU - V( , n ! not e*" 4 y u , r influence 



A r TV , , ,, , , and power at this psychological time for 



dr. Pmchot, stating that he has a wij and perpetually beneficent cause that 



drawn his inspiration for the protec- is earnestly advocated by more than fifty 



tion and intelligent use of the forests million Americans?" 



and waterways from these two men. 



I he country, he said, knows what 



He stated that the Forestry and Ir- course Speaker Cannon chose to take. 

 nation Committee of the National He commented on the development 

 Board of Trade in January, 1906, o f water power in the south and east 

 made a report to Congress embodying that will be made possible by the es- 

 m ton-nation gathered by the Commit- tablishment of national forests in the 

 the General Land Office, southern states and in the New Eng- 

 rhe xv;is advocating the land re gi O ns, saying that in the south- 

 repeal of the Stone Act. ern states alone development of the 



He said that under this act 5,000,- maximum possible water power 



ooo acres of the most valuable timber would amount to a saving to the peo- 



land belonging to the United States pie of the Southern Appalachian and 



was sold from 1901 to 1906 at the tributary regions of $45.000,000 an- 



rate of $2.50 an acre, and that thus, nually. He urged that Congress be 



for $13.000,000, the United States petitioned so frequently and forcibly 



parted with lands actually worth more that it would be obliged to listen to 



than $100,000,000. The law that the voice of the people in behalf of 



made this possible, he said, the Nation- the preservation, conservation, and 



al Board of Trade and the American utilization of the country's great na- 



Forestry Association has been trying tural resources. 



to have repealed, but so far little head- Governor Burke, of North Dakota, 



way has been made. anc l Mr. W. G. Jones, of Texas, 



Mr. Harvey said that the State of contributed to the general discussion, 



Pennsylvania "has acquired for State and at 5.25 o'clock P. M., on motion 



forest "reserves 900,000 acres of land, of Governor Noel, the session ad- 



and the State is planting this year journed. 



400,000 white pine seedlings. In the Following adjournment, and in 



state reserves, Mr. Harvey said, sani- pursuance of the suggestion made by 



tariums for the use of sufferers from Governor Folk, a number of the Gov- 



tubercttlosis w^ere being established, ernors met to take preliminary steps 



the State having last year appropri- toward perfecting a permanent organ- 



ated S6oo,ooo for such sanitariums, ization. About twenty Governors 



This he called special attention to as took part in this preliminary meeting, 



an admirable feature of the work that and before the meeting came to a 



is being clone by Pennsylvania. close, "The House of Governors" had 



Mr. Harvey read a copy of a dis- been launched. A meeting to be held 



patch sent on the 5th of May to in the coming autumn, either at St. 



Speaker Cannon "a cannon,' ' he Louis, or Chicago, was decided upon ; 



said, "that many of us wish might be Governor Swanson of Virginia, and 



spiked."- in regard to the forestry Governor Willson of Kentucky, were 



question: chosen as the neucleus of an executive 



