THE APPALACHIANxWHITE MOUNTAIN 



HEARING 



THE public hearing on Senate bill tions in fifteen States, were their pre- 

 4825, which was passed by the sented, Governor Guild then opening 

 Senate toward the close of the with a lucid, clean-cut and patriotic pre- 

 last session of Congress, was granted by sentation of the matter, saying that the 

 the House Committee on Agriculture on delay had already menaced the Nation 

 December gth, at which time before a from many standpoints ; that the public 

 quorum of the Committee, Chairman health was involved ; that the forests 

 Scott presiding, there appeared in advo- were rapidly disappearing ; that water 

 cacy of the measure a large delegation supply, water power and navigation 

 from New England and the South, unit- were seriously affected in both sections, 

 ing in an earnest and forceful presenta- He urged immediate action by the 

 tion of the merits of the project and the Committee as a patriotic duty, closing 

 urgency of prompt action thereon. with a beautiful allusion to the fact that 

 The delegation was headed by Gov- the advocates of the measure were ap- 

 ernor Guild of Massachusetts as the pear i ng un d er the same flag as that first 

 distinguished chairman (the Governor flown by the Continental troops when 

 coming to Washington solely for this Washington took command, the flag 

 purpose), and was made up of states- firgt flown , the American Nav was a 

 men scientists, engineers, representa- whhe fl beari Qn Jts fidd a jne 

 tives of National organizations, com- , 



mercial bodies, etc., representing the ^ , , , ^ , 



vr , , , ,, ,, * . , r ? The venerable and beloved Edward 



National demand that the establishment ,- u , u i r *u c 



r , . , ., Everett Hale, chaplain of the Senate, 



of this forest area was essential to the ..... / , , , r ,, 



welfare of the Nation and that further spoke feelingly of the forests of the 



delay was unnecessary and deplorable to Whlte Mountains now and their con- 



the last degree trast wlth condltlons when as a bo > 



Chairman Scott, who had recently he had hel P e , d to survey them, and able 



returned from a week's visit to the and forc'eful addresses were made by 



Southern Applachians called the Com- ex-Governor Pardee of California, 



mittee to order at 10:30 and briefly out- Hon - D - A - Tompkins, of Charlotte, N. 



lined the points he desired covered. C > President of Appalachian National 



The principal one being the relation Forest Association, Representative 



<if the forests to "regulation of stream ner - and others. 



flow of navigable rivers," his state- The 'Stream Regulation" side was 



mem being that the opinion given by wel1 presented by Dr. C. E. Van Hise 



the House Judiciary Committee last of the University of Wisconsin, Prof, 



winter had confined the constitutional George F. Swain of the Massachusetts 



bounds of purchase of forest lands by Institute of Technology, Mr. W. S. Lee 



the Government to such areas as could of the Southern Power Co., and Mr. 



be "clearly shown" to be of aid to navi- C. C. Goodrich, and other phases 



gation. taken up in some detail by earnest and 



\ number of resolutions from chain- well informed men, the Committee ad- 



IKTS of commerce and similar bodies journing at 4:30, after agreeing to 



a particularly strong one passed the pre- incorporate the matter presented in the 



MOUS day by the Southern Commercial previous hearings as a part of the da\ '- 



< "ongress voicing some sixty organiza- proceedings. 



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