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interested in the preservation of the Appalachian forests, others were 

 anxious to have the Federal government come in and buy up timber 

 lands, because such a procedure furnished a possible market for some 

 lands of little value, and insured their protection at Federal expenses. 

 Just what other section or sections of the country joined with the 

 South to effect the passage of such a bill, it is impossible to say from 

 any evidence appearing in the Congressional Record. 



In the House, Appalachian forest bills were introduced in the fifty- 

 seventh Congress by Brownlow of Tennessee, and by Pearson and 

 Moody of North Carolina; and here as in the Senate the committee 

 report was favorable, but nothing was accomplished.^" It seems rather 

 strange that even a favorable committee report should have been 

 secured as early as this. 



During the next few years, a number of Appalachian forest bills 

 were brought forward ; in the Senate, by Burton of Kansas and Over- 

 man of North Carolina, and in the House by Brownlow and Gibson of 

 Tennessee.^^ 



THE DEMAND FOR FORESTS IN THE WHITE MOUNTAINS 



The movement for Appalachian forests had been under way only a 

 few years when agitation arose for national forests in the White 

 Mountains also, and Senator Gallinger and Representative Currier 

 of New Hampshire introduced several bills into Congress,^^ but none 

 of these passed either house. These men did not have as effective an 

 organization as the southern men, but they presently saw that a com- 

 bination with the southern men would put the whole movement on a 

 better basis ; and in 1906, Senator Brandegee of Connecticut reported 

 a bill for the acquisition of $3,000,000 worth of nationfil forests in the 

 "Appalachian and White Mountains." This bill passed the Senate 

 without a comment. ^^ Thus the curious combination of New England 

 and the South seemed to be very effective in the Senate.^* 



10 H. R. 3128, H. R. 6543, H. R. 12138, H. R. 13523, H. Report 1547; 57 Cong. 

 .1 sess. 



11 S. 887, H. R. 1196, H. R. 5065; 58 Cong. 1 sess.: S. 408, H. R. 40; 59 Cong. 

 1 sess. 



12 S. 2327, H. R. 7284; 58 Cong. 2 sess.: S. 34, H. R. 181; 59 Cong. 1 sess. 



13 S. 4953; 59 Cong. 1 sess.: Cong. Rec, June 22, 1906, 8952. 

 " See Cong. Rec, June 24, 1910, 8989. 



