FOREST RESERVES IN THE EAST 211 



205 to 41. The decisiveness of this vote is explained by the fact that 

 the bill merely appropriated $100,000 for cooperation with the states 

 in forest protection, and created a commission for further investiga- 

 tion. Many of the advocates of national forests voted for the bill 

 because they thought it was the best obtainable, while many opponents 

 voted for it because they thought it might stave off something more 

 radical.^^ The bill followed the views of Speaker Cannon in shifting 

 responsibility largely to the states, and was for that reason viewed 

 with disfavor by the American Forestry Association; but it never 

 came up in the Senate. ^^ 



INCREASING SCOPE OF THE MOVEMENT 



I Not for the southern Appalachians and White mountains alone were 

 national forests demanded. In 1905, Representative Dovener of West 

 Virginia introduced a bill for the protection of the Potomac water- 

 shed, and Representative Hubbard and Senator Elkins, also of West 

 Virginia, called for the same thing.^* Representatives Shakleford and 

 Lamar of Missouri wanted a national forest in the Ozarks ; Lindbergh 

 of Minnesota wanted one at the head of the Mississippi River; and 

 Bradley of New York wanted the Highlands of the Hudson preserved ; 

 while Stephens of Texas made several efforts to secure a reserve at 

 the head of the Red River.^^ 



Thus, at the end of a decade of agitation, the movement for the pur- 

 chase of forest lands had attained a very broad scope as well as great 

 strength; and friends of the movement entered the sixty-first Con- 

 gress, in Taft's administration, with high hopes. Austin and Brown- 

 low of Tennessee, Weeks of Massachusetts, and Guernsey of Maine 

 introduced forest reserve measures into the House ;"® and Gallinger of 

 New Hampshire brought up a bill in the Senate,^^ which was debated 



22 Cong. Rec, May 21, 1908, 6688-6705. 



23 Forestry and Irrigation, June, 1908, 356. 



24 H. R. 5365, H. R. 13784, S. 3504, S. 4271; 59 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 11357; 60 

 Cong. 1 sess. 



25 H. R. 11749, H. R. 15938, H. R. 16972, H. R. 20186, H. R. 20887, H. R. 

 21302, H. R. 21487; 60 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 63; 61 Cong. 1 sess.: Cong. Bee, Mar. 

 31, 1908, 4179. 



26 H. R. 11, H. R. 105, H. R. 11798; 61 Cong. 1 sess.: H. R. 21589; 61 Cong. 

 2 sess. 



27 S. 4501 ; 61 Cong. 2 sess. 



