HOW THE HOUSE VOTED 



An Analysis of the Vote of March 1, 1909, in the House of Representa^ 



tives on the Weeks Bill 



By EDWIN A, START, Boston, Mass, 



ON THE ist of March, 1909, the 

 Weeks bill, so-called, reported 

 by a majority of the Committee 

 on Agriculture, was debated for two 

 hours in the House of Representatives 

 and passed by a vote of 157 to 147. 

 While no mention was made in the 

 bill of the Southern Appalachian or 

 White Mountain forests, the measure 

 being general in its form, it was un- 

 derstood to be framed primarily in 

 the interest of these great national 

 projects, they being conceded to be the 



most urgently needed enterprises in the 

 way of water protection. Votes for 

 or against this bill were therefore 

 votes for or against the Appalach- 

 ian forests. As this was the only time 

 in which the question had come to an 

 issue on the floor of the House a care- 

 ful study of the vote is worth while and 

 we ask the attention of the press and 

 friends of the measure throughout the 

 country to the data given below. 

 How did your representative vote? 



THE ROLL CALL 



The Vote in the House of Representatives on the So-called "Weeks Bill," S. 4825, on March 1, 1909, 



Was as Follows: 



YEAS, 157 



Acheson 



Allen 



Ashbrook 



Bartholdt 



Bates 



Bede 



Bell, Ga. 



Bennet, N. Y. 



Bennett, Ky. 



Brodhead 



Brownlow 



Brundidge 



Burleigh 



Burnett 



Burton, Del. 



Calder 



Candler 



Capron 



Cassel 



Caulfield 



Cockran 



Cocks, N. Y. 



Cole 



Cook, Pa. 



Cooper, Pa. 



Cooper, Tex. 



Cooper, Wis. 



Coudrey 



Craig 



Crawford 



348 



Currier 



Darragh 



Davidson 



Davis 



Dawes 



Danby 



Denver 



Diekema 



Douglas 



Draper 



Edwards, Ky. 



Ellerbe 



Esch 



Estopinal 



Favrot 



Finley 



Flood 



Foelker 



Fornes 



Foster, Ind. 



Foster, Vt. 



Foulkrod 



Fuller 



Gaines, Tenn. 



Gardner, Mass. 



Gardner, N. J. 



Gilhams 



Gill 



Gillespie 



Gillett 



Glass 



Godwin 



Goldfogle 



Greene 



Guernsey 



Hale 



Hall 



Hamilton, Mich. 



Harding 



Harrison 



Haskins 



Heflin 



Henry, Conn. 



Hepburn 



Higgins 



Hill, Conn. 



Hinshaw 



Hitchcock 



Hobson 



Hubbard, W. Va. 



Hughes, N. J. 



Hull, Iowa 



Hull, Tenn. 



Humphreys, Miss. 



Johnson, S. C. 



Jones, Va. 



Keliher 



Kennedy, Ohio 



Kimball 



Kinkaid 



Lamb 



Landis 



Langley 



Law 



Lawrence 



Lee 



Lenahan 



Lever 



Longworth 



Loud 



Lovering 



McCall 



McKinney 



McLachlan, Cal. 



McLaughlin, Mich. 



McMorran 



Madison 



Mann 



Martin 



Maynard 



Moon, Tenn. 



Morse 



Mudd 



Nelson 



Nicholls 



O'Connell 



Padgett 



Page 



Parsons 



Perkins 



Peters 



Pollard 



Porter 



Pou 



