Hon. R. B. Glenn, Former Governor of North Carolina 



taining a summary of the arguments 

 for the proposed action. One of the 

 Senate bills, introduced by Senator Bur- 

 ton, was passed in the originating body 

 on the 24th of June and halted there. 

 The matter went over to the second ses- 

 sion, and in the meantime a liberally 

 illustrated volume, known as Senate 

 Document 84, was issued. This con- 

 tained the messages of Presidents Mc- 

 Kinley and Roosevelt, the reports of the 

 Secretary of Agriculture, various me- 

 morials to Congress, references to sev- 

 eral magazine articles, favorable reso- 

 lutions of state legislatures and their 

 acts ceding jurisdiction and permitting 

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the United States to acquire land within 

 their boundaries. In the second ses- 

 sion the Senate bill with one amend- 

 ment was favorably reported to the 

 House, but got no farther. 



Promptly at the opening of the Fifty- 

 eighth Congress Representative Brown- 

 low, of Tennessee, again introduced in 

 the House a bill for the purchase of 

 southern Appalachian forest reserves, 

 and on the same day (November n, 

 1903), Senator Hoar presented to the 

 Senate resolutions of the general court 

 of Massachusetts in favor of the enact- 

 ment of national legislation to protect 

 the forests of the White Mountains of 



