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the question of single taxation is a serious one which has to be settled on scientific 

 principles. I understand at this minute a serious question has arisen on the 

 Pacific Coast, that they are proposing an amendment to the Constitution whereby 

 the single tax there should be introduced, and as that applies to the question of 

 forests, I assure you gentlemen it will cause the destruction of all those beautiful 

 forests out there, and I therefore request that the report which was read by 

 Mr. Allen, that part which was caused to be expurgated, be reintroduced and 

 placed in the regular report of this committee and printed in the proceedings. I 

 make that motion, Mr. Chairman. 



Mr. C. S. Chapman, of Oregon: I second the motion. 



The Chairman: It has been moved by Mr. Goadby and seconded by Mr. 

 Chapman, that this conference go on record as approving that portion of the 

 report which was not printed and which Mr. Allen read a short time ago touching 

 on the question of single tax, and that it be made a part of the proceedings. 



Mr. W. O. Filley, of Connecticut: If I understand the motion, if passed, it 

 will simply mean that we print the opinion of the committee in regard to the 

 single tax as applied to forests, is important enough to be on record, it is not a 

 question of whether we approve the opinion of the committee or disapprove it, but 

 it is simply the fact that the portion of the report which was omitted from the 

 printed record we want included in the record for our own reference in the future. 



The Chairman: That is it precisely. This short chapter was not included 

 because the sub-committee was not entirely agreed upon it, and, in order to 

 present a published report on which the entire sub-committee and the forestry 

 committee did agree, this omission was made in order to see whether this 

 conference would like the rest of the report to be put on record. 



(The motion, on being put to vote, was carried.) 



Henry S. Drinker, of Pennsylvania: Mr. Chairman, there is one thing I 

 think ought to be said and said plainly, and that is what we think of Mr. Allen's 

 work in this report, we who know what he has been doing. His work is beyond 

 all praise. We have been hearing from him all summer. I know in Pennsylvania 

 I received from him, nearly two months ago, the first draft of this report. It was 

 so able and comprehensive that I was afraid to try to pass upon it,^nd I asked 

 my old friend here, the leader in age and in forestry, Mr. Elliott, and Dr. Roth- 

 rock, to go over it. They did so with care and sent it back with their suggestions 

 to him. Then I got back from Mr. Allen again a re-draft of that report and that 

 has been going on, and the amount of the splendid work this man has been doing 

 is beyond all power of commendation. Mr. Allen properly said, when he was 

 trying to answer the various questions that were put to him, that he would like 

 some of us from Pennsylvania and Connecticut, who have been putting into 

 legislation the yield tax, to answer some of them, but the trouble was, he 

 answered the questions as well as we could answer them ourselves. Here is 

 Mr. Elliott, whom you all know, and at the beginning of this session he showed 

 me some notes he proposed to give to you, and he turned to me after Mr. Allen 

 had finished and said that he had nothing to say, Mr. Allen covered it all. There- 

 fore, I want to express the thanks of the co-members of this Committee to 

 Mr. Allen. , 



The Chairman: I am very glad indeed that Dr. Drinker has taken this 

 matter up. 



Mr. W. O. Filley: Mr. Chairman, I have had some experience, so far as it 

 concerns the East, but no practical knowledge as it concerns the West, and I was 

 amazed at the clear presentation of the subject by Mr. Allen, his explanation of 

 the laws already drafted in the East and the general principles underlying it. I 

 would not have attempted to give such a statement myself, I know I could not 

 give it as clearly as Mr. Allen, and I am glad that I was not called upon to 

 answer. 



