42 UNITED STATES FOREST POLICY 



addition to the annual sum provided — $10,000 being thus given in 

 the Sundry Civil Act of 1872/' 



In the years beginning with 1872, a number of bills appeared in 

 Congress for the protection of timber. In that year, Senator Windom 

 of Minnesota introduced a bill into the Senate,^* while Representative 

 Haldeman of Pennsylvania introduced two bills into the House, one 

 of which was a comprehensive forestry bill, and was debated at con- 

 siderable length.^^ This latter measure provided that all land grants 

 should be made upon the express condition that the grantee should 

 preserve ten per cent of the grant in trees, and it failed in the House 

 by the surprisingly small margin of only seven votes. The debates on 

 this bill indicate that conservation had a few champions in Congress, 

 even at this early date.^^ 



In 1874, Representative Herndon of Texas, following up the work 

 of the American Association for the Advancement of Science pre- 

 viously referred to (see page 35), introduced a bill "For the appoint- 

 ment of a commission to inquire into the destruction of forests and 

 the measures necessary for the preservation of timber.^^ Representa- 

 tive Dunnell of Minnesota, of the Committee on Public Lands, made a 

 long report favoring the proposition,^^ but the bill made no progress 

 during the Forty-third Congress. 



In 1875, Dunnell introduced a bill for the appointment of a com- 

 mission for inquiry into the destruction of forests.^® The bill was 

 pigeonholed, but in August of that year he succeeded in hanging a 

 rider on the seed distribution bill, granting $2000, to be spent by 

 the Commissioner of Agriculture for a report on the consumption, 

 importation and exportation of timber, probable supply for the 

 future, best means of preservation and renewal, influence on climate, 

 etc.®" This appropriation was a result of the agitation by the Ameri- 

 ca Stat. 17, 359. 



54 S. 795; Cong. Globe, Mar. 12, 1872, 1588. 



55 H. R. 2197; Cong. Globe, Apr. 3, 1872, 2140: H. R. 3008; Cong. Globe, Dec. 3, 

 1872, 15. 



56 Cong. Globe, Apr. 17, 1872, 2504; Apr. 30, 2925-2929, 



57 H. R. 2497; 43 Cong. 1 sess. 



58 H. Rept. 259. 



59 H. R. 1310; 44 Cong. 1 sess. 



60 Stat. 19, 167. 



