60 UNITED STATES FOREST POLICY 



As early as 1865, Senator Conness of California introduced a bill 

 for the sale of timber lands in that state, but the Committee on Public 

 Lands asked to be discharged from its consideration. In 1871, Dele- 

 gate Garfielde of Washington and Representative Sargent of Cali- 

 fornia introduced bills for the sale of timber lands in the coast states, 

 and one of these measures passed the House, as did also a bill intro- 

 duced by Slater of Oregon, proposing to give settlers the right to buy 

 forty acres of timbered lands for each 160 acres of untimbered land 

 occupied by them. Several timber sale bills appeared in the next few 

 years, most of them fathered by western men — Representatives Page 

 and Pacheco of California, Maginnis of Montana, Patterson of Colo- 

 rado, and Kelley of Oregon. Measures were also introduced, however, 

 by Dunnell and Averill of Minnesota, and even by men from farther 

 east — Representative Sayler of Ohio and Senator Boutwell of Massa- 

 chusetts. '^°*' Some of these bills provided sale at appraised value, or at 

 a fixed minimum, and in the debates on Senator Kelley's bill, an amend- 

 ment was offered providing that lands must be offered at public sale 

 before they could be bought otherwise; but this amendment was 

 defeated in the Senate by a vote of 36 to 9, its meager support coming 

 mainly from the eastern states. ^°^ 



As already stated, Sargent's bill of 1871, and Slater's measure of 

 the following year passed the House of Representatives. Two years 

 later the bill originally introduced by Page of California, providing 

 sale at $2.50 per acre, also passed the House without opposition ; and 

 in 1878, a bill was introduced by Sargent, providing for sale in Cali- 

 fornia, Oregon, Washington, and Nevada. This bill was intended as 

 a supplement to the Free Timber Act, which did not apply to the 

 coast states, California having been omitted from the provisions of 

 the latter act at the request of Sargent himself; and it passed both 

 houses with scarcely an opposing voice. ^"^ 



106 S. 379; 38 Cong. 2 sess.; Cong. Globe, Feb. 16, 1865, 811: H. R. 9930, H. R. 

 3005; 41 Cong. 3 sess.: H. R. 274; 43 Cong. 1 sess.: Cong. Globe, Feb. 11, 1871, 1158: 

 H. R. 3101; 42 Cong. 3 sess.: H. R. 410, S. 471; 43 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 4430; 43 

 Cong. 2 sess.: H. R. 323, H. R. 660, H. R. 1191, S. 6; 44 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 797, 

 H. R. 1154; 45 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 2658, H. R. 3981; 45 Cong, 2 sess. 



107 Cong. Bee, Feb. 16, 1876, 1101; Feb. 21, 1187-1189. 



108 Con^r. Rec, Feb. 22, 1875, 1597, 1598; Apr. 18, 1878, 2640; Apr. 35, 1878, 

 2842; May 11, 1878, 3387, 3388. 



