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favorably reported by the Committee on Public Lands, but neither 

 received any further consideration. In the next session of Congress, an 

 attempt was made in the Senate Committee on Appropriations to slip 

 an amendment into the Sundry Civil Bill eliminating the word "here- 

 after," so that no funds would be available for the protection of 

 new reserves. This amendment, however, failed in the conference 

 committee. ^^ 



In the next session of Congress, Jones renewed his efforts to stop 

 the creation of reserves, but without success. About the same time, the 

 House Committee on Public Lands tried to secure a law providing 

 that forest reserves should be created or enlarged only on the approval 

 of the governor of the state concerned, but this also failed. ^^ 



SENATOR HEYBURN AND THE RESERVES 



In 1903, W. B. Heyburn succeeded Heitfeld as senator from Idaho, 

 and Heyburn had not been in Congress a year before he evinced the 

 rancorous hatred of the reserves which characterized his entire politi- 

 cal career. Heyburn's hostility to the reserves, a hostility which he 

 displayed at every opportunity, was largely a personal matter. 

 Shortly after he entered Congress, he began to criticise the Forest 

 Service, and to oppose the creation of new reserves in Idaho. He 

 carried this opposition so far that Pinchot decided to strike back by 

 exposing Heyburn's record on the forest reserve question. The result 

 was the publication, in 1905, of Forest Bulletin 67, in which was 

 printed the complete correspondence of Heyburn, Pinchot, President 

 Roosevelt, Senator Dubois — the other Idaho senator — and several 

 others, on the question of the creation of reserves in Idaho. This 

 bulletin showed clearly that Heyburn was not in good standing with 

 President Roosevelt, and probably Pinchot thought it would make 

 Heyburn some trouble at home, for Roosevelt was still popular with 

 the people of the West. Perhaps Pinchot thought this move would 

 silence Heyburn's criticism; but certainly it had no such effect, for 

 Heyburn became only more violent in his opposition to the reserves. 

 He was ever afterward the archenemy of the reservation policy. 



72 H. R. 7332, H. R. 9599, H. R. 11357, H. Reports 1985, 1986; 56 Cong. 1 sess.: 

 Cong. Rec, Feb. 28, 1901, 3225; Mar. 2, 1901, 3570. 



T3 H. R. 171, H. R. 172, H. Report 968; 57 Cong. 1 sess. 



