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East. That has now been changed so that a direct treasury- 

 appropriation is required to cover such part of the co-operative 

 work as the national government may find it expedient to share. 

 Neither need it be feared that gigantic jobbery can be promoted 

 under this measure. The nation's interests are hedged about with 

 formidable safeguards. Not a cent can be expended from the 

 national purse in this work until the most careful inquiry has been 

 made by thoroughly qualified government officials into the eco- 

 nomic public necessities involved. The facts produced by this 

 inquiry must be then submitted to a special board consisting of 

 the Secretaries of Agriculture, the Interior, and War, a Senator, 

 and a Congressman. This board must in every case pass upon 

 the question of public necessity, and must further determine to 

 what extent the Federal government will be justified in extending 

 its co-operation. In short, it is an eminently safe measure, and 

 one that should appeal powerfully to strictly national interests. 



The practically solid opposition in the last Congress by the 

 representatives from the far West was most disheartening to the 

 promoters of the measure, despite the fact that the bill passed the 

 House in the face of all those negative votes. Had time allowed 

 for full discussion in the Senate, it could doubtless have passed 

 that chamber also, but final adjournment came before the bill was 

 reached. With the omission of what was understood to be the 

 chief cause for Western opposition, the East hopes to see the 

 bill adopted this year by an overwhelming majority. 



Allen Chamberlain. 



Editor's Note. — Members of the Sierra Club are urged to write to their 

 Senators and Representatives in Congress requesting favorable action on this 

 bill, which means so much to our friends of the Appalachian Mountain Club 

 as well as to the entire nation. 



Sierra Club Pins. 

 A very attractive Sierra Club pin is on sale at the office of the 

 Secretary. The price in silver or bronze is $1.00; and in gold, 

 either as a pin or watch-fob, $3.50. The gold pin is only made to 

 order. Those desiring to have a pin sent by registered mail 

 should send to the Secretary of the Sierra Club ten cents in 

 addition to the above-mentioned price. 



Sierra Club Stationery. 

 The official die of the Sierra Club is now at store of Paul Elder 

 & Co., 239 Grant Avenue, San Francisco, who are prepared to 

 execute orders for Club stationery. 



