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by the side of which the alleged lumber monopoly on the Pacific coast 

 is a mild-mannered and philanthropic organization."*" 



In spite of the opposition of Mondell, Tawney, Fitzgerald of New 

 York, Smith of California, and others — by no means all western 

 men — Wadsworth of New York succeeded in getting the appropria- 

 tion bill through the House without serious alteration, but in the 

 Senate a more decided hostility was immediately manifest. A pro- 

 posed increase in Pinchot's salary was promptly assailed by Senator 

 Fulton ; but the entire Bureau of Forestry was presently brought in 

 for castigation. "The truth is," declared Senator Fulton, "this 

 Bureau is composed of dreamers and theorists, but beyond and out- 

 side the domain of their theories and their dreams is the everyday, 

 busy, bustling, throbbing world of human endeavor, where real men 

 are at work producing substantial results. . . . While these chiefs 

 of the Bureau of Forestry sit within their marble halls and theorize 

 and dream of waters conserved, forests and streams protected and 

 preserved throughout the ages and the ages, the lowly pioneer is 

 climbing the mountain side where he will erect his humble cabin, and 

 within the shadow of the whispering pines and the lofty firs of the 

 western forest engage in the laborious work of carving out for him- 

 self and his loved ones a home and a dwelling-place."*^ Senator Pat- 

 terson of Colorado complained likewise, although in somewhat less 

 eloquent vein, of the "little, petty prosecutions" instituted by 

 government agents. 



Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock was the main 

 target of western vituperation. "I myself believe, and I say here 

 now," announced Senator Fulton, "that the responsibility [for the 

 abuses under the Forest Lieu Act] did rest upon, and the conse- 

 quences must be born by, the Secretary of the Interior." Senator 

 Carter was equally energetic in his denunciation of Secretary 

 Hitchcock. 



Fulton and Carter were not entirely fair in their attacks upon the 

 Secretary of the Interior. In the first place, they asserted that a 



80 Cong. Rec, Jan. 29, 1907, 1906. For an account of an attack upon the Forest 

 Service in 1913 because of its policy of selling timber at market prices, see "Lumber 

 Industry," IV, 62, 63, 



81 Cong. Rec, Feb. 18, 1907, 3183-3206. 



