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UNITED STATES FOREST POLICY 



serves. It might easily be suspected that some of the western sena- 

 tors had been pacified with some sort of a political trade — a trade on 

 some irrigation scheme, or on the wool tariff, or on some one of a 

 dozen other things ; but men who were in close touch with the pro- 

 ceedings in Congress have insisted that there was no political trade. 

 Perhaps it is more reasonable to assume that the western senators 

 felt they had no particular reason to oppose this measure since it 

 applied to another section of the country."^ 



The House vote and the Senate vote of certain sections of the 

 country differed widely. Thus, while in the Senate the Rocky Moun- 

 tain and Pacific states cast a strong vote for the bill, in the House 

 they voted three to one against it. So the southern states, while in the 

 Senate almost unanimous in favor of the bill, were in the House almost 

 equally balanced. 



PROVISIONS OF THE WEEKS LAW 



The Weeks Bill as finally passed'* appropriated $1,000,000 for the 

 current year and $2,000,000 each year thereafter until June, 1915, 

 for the purchase of forest lands in the southern Appalachian and 

 White mountains. The purcha,se of these lands was left to a commis- 

 sion — the National Forest Reservation Commission, consisting of the 



SENATE VOTE ON THE WEEKS BILL 



•3znATox.i/oT£o oe//i nffY/CH 

 yorro on oppo^its •noes. 



mappad jnc/uc/es'^ ii 



pairs tv/)ic^ couk/ be aaoartotned) 



Cong. Rec, Feb. 15, 1911, 2602 



54 Stat. 36, 961. 



