{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3522", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "M/i^", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "SD 426\\n.M6\\nCopy 1\\nREMARKS\\nJ\\nSenator JOHN L. WILSON\\nOF WASHINGTON.\\nSENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.\\nMay 6, 1S97, and Aprii, 4 and 5, 1S9S,\\nTHE MODIFICATION AND REPEAL OF THE FORESTRY\\nRESERVE ORDER OF FEBRUARY 22, 1897=\\nWASHINGTOM.\\n189S,", "height": "3522", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": ",1\\nU\\nMM", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "E E M A E K S\\nOF\\nSENATOIl JOHN L. WILSON,\\nOP WASHINGTON,\\nOn the modification and repeal of the forestry reserve order of February 23\\n1897.\\n3Iay 6, 1S97.\\nMr. WILSON. I do not know, Mr. President, that anything\\ncan be added to the statements made at the previous session of\\nCongress relative to the withdrawal of February 32, 1897. 1 can\\nnot speak, sir, for reservations and withdrawals made in other\\nStates, but I desire to say a single word, and a word only, relative\\nto the withdrawals that have taken place in the State of Wash-\\nington.\\nThe order made by the President was a drastic one so far as it\\naffected my people. While the Senator from South Dakota [Mr.\\nPettigrew] speaks feelingly of the 1,000,000 acres withdrawn in\\nhis State, an area of over 8,000,000 acres of land has been with-\\ndrawn from settlement and development in the State of Washing-\\nton an area larger than the State of Massachusetts and probably\\ntwice as large as the State of Connecticut. In one county, while\\nthis commission composed of scientific gentlemen was declaring\\nthat there were no entries of any sort, an abstract of title was filed\\nAvith the Secretary of the Interior, showing over 4,600 mineral\\nlocations, upon which \u00c2\u00a73,000,000 worth of work has already been\\nperformed, while one corporation, the Monte Cristo syndicate,\\nhas expended in the development of its property and in the build-\\ning of its railroad over $4,000,000, an aggregate of over $6,000,000\\nin one county in which there were no entries.\\nI do not know why the order should have been made as to the\\nState of Washington. All of our rivers flow directly into Puget\\nSound. The two great rivers of the State\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Skagit and the\\nColumbia have their sources in British Columbia, and all of the\\nother rivers have a perpetual and everlasting supply, until time\\nshall be no more, from the glaciers of Mount Rauier. In addition\\nto that, Mr. President, we have an annual rainfall in western\\nWashington of 108 inches.\\nSo, Mr. President, it would se^m that there was no necessity, so\\nfar as preserving the watershed in western Washington is con-\\ncerned, for this withdrawal. Again, it comes forty-five years too\\nlate. All the timber lands of western Washington that ai-e mer-\\nchantable are within 25 miles of the waters of Puget Sound. The\\ntimber lands withdrawn by this order do not contain merchant-\\nable timber. They only have their value, if any, for mining pur-\\nposes. They do not prevent the flow of the water from the\\nmelting snow, for the undergrowth of pitch pine that comes up is\\nbetter for that purpose than the larger timber.\\n3274 3", "height": "3522", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "4\\nWhat tliey do complain of is that their material interests those\\nthings that affect their prosperity and advancement, nay their\\nvery existence as Commonwealths shall be disposed of by the\\nstroke of pen as thoiagh we were mere provinces and not sover-\\neign States of this great Union.\\nMr. President, I think this order extremely unfortunate. It\\nwould seem that it was Impossible for the peoi^le west of the Mis-\\nsouri River to develop their own domain and their own country\\nin their own way. We have never had that opportunity. The\\npeople who first settled New England came and took thousands of\\nacres of land and developed them as they saw fit, and the people\\nwho passed from New England across the Allegheny Mountains\\nand set tied in the Mississippi Valley took up their lands at a dol-\\nlar and a quarter an acre without those restrictions required un-\\nder the homestead act of 1860. Our people have had to go forward\\nand develop their country by law, and they have observed the law\\nin so far as it has been possible for any citizen to do so. They do\\nnot comjjlain of this. It is right and proper and just.\\nMr. President, supposing this order is not modified or revoked,\\nwhat are you going to do about it? We have valuable improve-\\nments there; the people have expended large sums of money; they\\nhave gone on and developed these mineral locations; they have\\nbuilt villages; they have built railroads; they have done all of\\nthese things under the law; they are going to stay there; they are\\ngoing to use that timber; and what are you going to do about it?\\nWhat can you do about it?\\nI recollect very well a few years ago a special agent of the Gen-\\neral Land Office came to our town who said he was going over to\\ninvestigate some timber-land depredations on Badger Mountain.\\nI said to him, When you get over there, you will find a very\\nbeautiful valley of 800,000 acres of land, and you can see that\\nevery farmhouse and all the buildings there are built of timber\\ntaken from Badger Mountain. I said, You go to the town of\\nWaterville, with a thousand people, and j-ou will find the court-\\nhouse and all the buildings there are built from timber taken from\\nBadger Mountain; and if you think you can get a verdict, you had\\nbetter try it. He did try it, but he did not succeed. So you will\\nfail on this. We must have the timber to develop those lands.\\nWhy should we be everlastingly and eternally harassed and an-\\nnoved and bedeviled by these scientific gentlemen from Harvard\\nCollege?\\nI recall, Mr. President, that a great many years ago a very dis-\\ntinguished and very able gentleman from Massachusetts, in a cel-\\nebrated oration delivered in the city of Boston, spoke of that\\nWestern country, and declared that\\nBy a presumptuous assertion of a disputed claim to worthless territory\\nbeyond the Rocky Mountains we have kindled anew on the iearth of our\\nmother country the smothered fires of a hostile strife.\\nWhat to-day is that worthless country upon the other side of the\\nRocky Mountains? It includes all the lands between the Colum-\\nbia River and 54\u00c2\u00b0 40 north latitude. Had we maintained our po-\\nsition then, the Eraser River would have been an American river,\\nthe city of Victoria would have been an American city, and Great\\nBritain would have been impededin her progress across the con-\\ntinent with her railway. So we do not always learn the facts of\\nthat Western country from these talented and learned scientific\\ngentlemen.\\nS271", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "I have here the testimony taken before the Secretary of the In-\\nterior, including that of Professor Sergeant in regard to their visit\\nto these reservations. Mr. President, if you would read that testi-\\nmony, if anyone would read that testimonj^, he would be impressed\\nby the very limited visits made to these reservations. They admit\\nthat they had no knowledge, that they hurried through the coun-\\ntry in Pullman palace cars, and made no observation of the great\\ninjustice they were about to commit against the people of my sec-\\ntion. There it is, exhibiting not a single excuse, not a single reason\\ngiven by these able gentlemen for this withdrawal.\\nMr. President, we in the Western country do not desire to do\\nanything that is not proper, that is not right. We only ask for\\nequal and exact justice; we only ask to help develop the Union of\\nthe States. We in the West know no North, we know no South,\\nwe know no East, we know no West; we know nothing but the\\nUnion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and to that we are devoted.\\nMr. President, I am of the West. I know something of its pos-\\nsibilities, of its products, and of its people. I have seen what was\\nonce considered an arid waste pass from a sea of grasses to great\\ncities, with schools and colleges, civilization and wealth. Sup-\\npose these forest reservations had been made years ago, and that\\nthese withdrawals had been made in California, would the \u00c2\u00a71,500,-\\n000,000 of gold have been produced in that State? And let it be\\nremembered that California is as large as New York, Pennsyl-\\nvania, and all New England.\\nIf such withdrawal had been made in Idaho, would she have\\ncontributed her $200,000,000 of gold and silver to our national\\nwealth? And Idaho is nine times as large as Vermont. Had the\\nmountainous regions of Montana been withdrawn, would she have\\ngiven us her $35,000,000 yearly of the precious metals? And Mon-\\ntana is as large as Greece, Italy, and Belgium combined.\\nAll this development throughout these hills and mountains has\\nbeen by the men who struggle and push forward and locate these\\nmineral claims. All this progress has been made in a country\\nwhich a few years ago was considered an arid country, and is\\nto-day adding yearly sis hundred millions in cereals to the mar-\\nkets of the world. This country, beginning with Dakota on the\\nEast, that in 1870 had only seven himdred millions of taxable\\nproperty, in 1890 had upon the tax lists of their States over $8,500,-\\n000,000 of taxable property. This country, that in 1860 had no\\nrailroad, in 1890 had more railroads than all the country east of\\nthe Alleghany Mountains had in 1870.\\nA wonderful development has been made, a wonderful growth\\nhas come about. It was not done by silver; it was not done by\\ngold; it was not accomplished by paper money; but it was accom-\\nplished by the energy, the industry, the perseverance, the trials,\\nthe self-denials of the hardy pioneers who have blazed the i)athway\\nof civilization into a magnificent highway and built upon the\\nother side of the Rocky Mountains an empire for you and for me.\\n[Manifestations of applause in the galleries.]\\nSo, Mr. President, I feel deeply interested in this matter. A\\ngreat blow has been struck at my State, and millions of acres,\\nupon which we were recreating a new prosperity locally, have been\\nwithdrawn from the public domain. No man can take from it a\\nstick of timber without being denounced as a thief; no man can\\ngo there to develop the mineral resources of Snohomish or King\\nor any of those counties along the line of the Cascade Range; no\\n3274", "height": "3522", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "6\\ngreat railroad can cross the continent over those mountains, and,\\nas suggested by the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. Spooner] no\\nBchoolhouse can be erected and no settler can come in.\\nMr. President, it is extremely unfortunate that the order of\\nFebruary 22, 1897, was made without consultation with, and with-\\nout the knowledge of, the people most interested in this section.\\nThe order was ghastly in its effect. It does great injustice to thou-\\nsands of people who have expended their time, their energy, their\\nmeans in developing the mineral resources of my State under the\\nlaws of this country. And now to deprive them, by mere Execu-\\ntive order, of their rights and property will work the gravest\\nhardship to individuals and bankruptcy to whole communities.\\nAil we ask is justice. Will this Senate deny us that?\\nMr. WILSON. I shall be glad if I can have the attention of tho\\nSenator from Iowa for one moment before he takes his seat, not\\nto occupy the attention of the Senate long. I do not wish to be\\nplaced in a position rather collectively which I have not occupied.\\nIt is true that we met at the Department of the Interior. I never\\nsaw the original amendment until it was stated that it was agreed\\nupon by substantially all, nor did I see the proposed change in the\\noriginal amendment. 1 never saw the proposed change until it\\nwas shown to me yesterday afternoon by the Senator from South\\nDakota. It goes a little further, I will state frankly, than the con-\\nversations which took place at the Department of the Interior\\nwould perhaps warrant. While I think personally a great mis-\\ntake has been made as to my State, while I think the order ought\\nto be abrogated entirely, yet we are so unfortunately situated that\\nwe have to take what we can get.\\nIf the same condition of affairs prevailed in the State of Iowa,\\nthere would be a riot. They would have another Shay s rebellion\\nin that State if the same condition of affairs prevailed there that\\nexists in my State.\\nMr. ALLISON. Will the Senator allow me to interru]5t him?\\nMr. WILSON. With great pleasure.\\nMr. ALLISON. Does not the Senator know that there is now\\nin process of execution orders which are intended whether or\\nnot they will accomplish that result I do not know, becaiTse I have\\nnot seen them\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to relieve his State of all the difficulties which he\\nhas so well portrayed here to-day? Are not the President of the\\nUnited States and the Secretary of the Interior in sympathy with\\nhis views upon the subject?\\nMr. WILSON. I think that is true. I am satisfied that the\\nPresident is in entire sympathy with me. I am satisfied that so\\nis the Secretary of the Interior, who, in my judgment, although I\\nhave had only a brief experience with him, is one of the ablest\\nand best men who have ever occupied that position, and I am glad\\nto bear testimony to that fact. I thoiight at the time he was\\nnominated for that high and honorable position that it was not a\\ngood thing to have a man from Manhattan Island, and I am glad\\nto say that I have been agreeably disappointed in that respect.\\n1 am not here to coerce anybody. I can not coerce an5 body. It\\nis not in my power to coerce nor have I any power to coerce the\\nPresident of the United States or the Secretary of the Interior.\\nWhat I wish is some relief. I am satisfied that the chairman of\\nthe Committee on Appropriations is anxious to give us relief. I\\n3274", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "think lie wants to keep the letter and the ppirit of the contract.\\nHe says the amendment now offered was not nominated in the\\noriginal bond. Is that true?\\nMr. ALLISON. It has been amended.\\nMr. WILSON. That is a different amendment. We want re-\\nlief; we must have relief; and I am willing, so far as concerns the\\nState that is most interested, to take what we in the West alv;ays\\nhave to do what we can get.\\nMr. WILSON. May I ask the Senator from Delaware a question?\\nMr. GRAY. Certainly.\\nMr. WILSON. I have a good deal of faith in the judgment of\\nthe Senator from Delaware. It is practically admitted that there\\nwas but a slight examination of those forestry reservations by tlie\\nscientific commission.\\nMr. GRAY. I do not know about that. The Senator may know.\\nI only assume that a body of men of that character would perform\\ntheir duty. They may, however, have neglected it.\\nMr. WILSON. They said in their report, and before the Secre-\\ntary of the Interior, that they had a limited time to make the\\nexamination, that they had visited the land offices and I will try\\nto put the exact testimony into the Record, as I have it upon my\\ndesk and made inquiry of individuals, and then had reported\\nthat their time was limited. Why make a forestry reservation in\\nthe State which I in part represent when we do not need to pre-\\nserve the water? We have more water in that western slope, as\\nthe Senator knows, than we can take care of. We have an annual\\nrainfall, as I said a while ago, of 108 inches.\\nThe two great rivers of the State can not be protected by the\\nforests, because they have their sources in British Columbia. All\\nthe other rivers which flow directly into Puget Sound have their\\nsources from glaciers. The only river that they said ought to\\nhave a supply of water is the Yakima River, on the eastern slope.\\nWhen we irrigate on the eastern side, at the time we need water\\nfor irrigation, I should like to say, we have an abundant supply,\\nmillions of gallons of it going to waste. So there is absolutely no\\nnecessity for such a sweeiDing remedy as that of the Executive\\norder of February 23.\\n-x-\\nMr. WILSON. In the meantime, before the Senator takes his\\nseat, will he allow me to ask him a question?\\nMr. GRAY. Certainly.\\nMr. WILSON. A remark was brought out relative to the sci-\\nentific commission, which possibly places me in a wrong position\\nregarding its members. I do not want to say anything unkind or\\nunjust or imgenerous to those gentlemen. Far be it from my in-\\ntention to do so; but I want to place in the Record, along the line\\nof my interruption of the Senator from Delaware, the testimony\\nof Professor Sergeant, where Commissioner Hermann asked hiia\\nif he visited the reservations. Professor Sergeanfs reply was:\\nWe visited a great many of these territories. We did not go around the\\nboundaries of all of them. We got all the information we could by talking\\nwith peoi)le; also from the land office. We tried to leave out lands upon\\nwhich claims have been established. We mention the number of approved\\nclaims in each reservation and they are comparatively small. You know it\\nwas impossible to travel over all that country in one summer.\\n3271", "height": "3522", "width": "2259", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "8\\nThat is the part we are criticising. In one county we have 4,500\\nmineral locations, upon which $2,000,000 worth of work has been\\ndone.\\nProfessor Sergeant says and we agree with him in that line;\\nI want to do him justice; I do not want to do anybody in justice\\nMy idea is to allow the app7 oving of mining claims in the forest reserva-\\ntions anywhere. The idea is not to stop mining, but to improve and encour-\\nage it.\\nBut the method and manner in which this order was made en-\\ntirely destroys it in our judgment. Therefore he is with us in\\nseeking to correct that order.\\nMr. WILSON. Mr. President, I, in common with several of the\\nWestern Senators, regret that the Senator from Maryland [Mr.\\nGorman] made the point of order upon this amendment. It is a\\nwell-known fact, which has been circulated broadcast throughout\\nthe West, that we were to have relief upon the sundry civil bill, and\\nthere are many reasons why the people of the West should have\\nrelief. Among others that I overlooked tljis morning is the fact\\nthat in the reservation in the State of Washington already 157,000\\nacres of land have been selected by the State in its grant of land\\nfor educational purposes. Another very serious question that\\nwill ultimately arise, unless some relief is afforded, is that a vast\\namount of litigation will occur over the odd sections within the\\n40-mile strip on each side of the Northern Pacific Railroad in re-\\nlation to its grant.\\nI think it has been always held and construed by the courts that\\nthe grant of the Northern Pacific was a grant in prsesenti and at-\\ntached eo instanti from Lake Siiperior to Puget Sound. Conse-\\nquently there will be much litigation, much harassment over this\\npart of the question. Whether our State will have to go and select\\nits land in some other portion of the State than where those 157,000\\nacres already selected for educational purposes are located is an-\\nother question. There may be a little difference here, but I think\\nthe concensiis of a majority is that we should have some relief.\\nI am not one of those who want to criticise what is called tlie\\ninner circle, or the Appropriations Committee. I have received\\nat their hands mtich favor, for which the distinguished chairman\\nhas my most profound consideration. I think they are doing the\\nbest they can. I think, perhaps, we ought to give a little ourselves.\\nI do not like to give anything. I am from the West [laughter],\\nand I should like to take all that is in sight and ask for more. I\\nfind that is quite prevalent in legislative matters in this part of\\nthe country also; but we can not, it seems, do so. Can not there\\nbe some little compromise that will relieve us all?\\nThe President, I am satisfied, wants to give us relief, and the\\nSenator from Maryland I doubt if he has any law upon the\\nstatute books of Maryland relative to the growth and encourage-\\nment of timber, as to which he is so solicitous about us, who have\\nplenty of it ought to withdraw his point of order and let the\\noriginal amendment, favored by most of us, go through and afford\\nthe relief that we are especially entitled to. If we can not do that,\\nif we are forced to join issues with our Eastern friends, who are\\nso extremely solicitous for our happiness and our prosperity, and\\nour growth and development, who control our incomings and our\\noutgoings with such a delightful liberality upon their part, we\\n\u00c2\u00a3374", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "shall have to fight it out and protect our own constituents and do\\nthe best we can. But the Western contingent is in favor of a little\\nbit of compromise.\\nAll legislation, as has often been said, is a compromise; and I,\\nfor one, do not want to drop the bone while I am crossing this\\nriver. [Laughter.] I want my constituents to have some relief.\\nI should like to repeal the entire order relative to reservations,\\nbut I am afraid we can not do that. Therefore, I would be glad\\nto have the Senator from Maryland, who has given me such\\ndelightful attention when I have been appealing to him [laugh-\\nter] withdraw his point of order. He is taking such a profound\\ninterest in this matter, and is listening to the debate pro and con\\nwith that eagerness and with that solicitude that he does upon all\\noccasions, that I think he might withdraw his point of order. I\\nam satisfied that he has not heard a single part of the request I\\nhave made, and therefore I will renew it, and see if he can not\\nyield to it.\\nMr. GORMAN. I will state that I heard the greater portion of\\nthe request the Senator from Washington has made with such\\ngreat force, and I am delighted to hear him.\\nMr. WILSOiSI The Senator from Maryland does me honor\\novermuch; but I am afraid I have made the usual impression upon\\nthe Senator from Maryland that I, unfortunately, always make.\\nHe does not seem to be hastening with that speed which would\\ndelight me to withdraw his point of order [laughter] and let U3\\nadopt that which was agreed upon by all parties, by the Secretary\\nof the Interior, by and with the understanding of the Chief Execu-\\ntive, and by everybody throughout all the Western domain, that\\nwe shall have some relief. I think the Senator from Iowa nearest\\nme [Mr. Allison] would like to see that adopted. He wants to\\ngive us relief.\\nApril 4, 1S9S.\\nMr. WILSON. Mr. President, I shall not occupy the attention\\nof the Senate more than a moment. This question was pretty\\nthoroughly discussed in the last Congress. The conditions that\\nprevail in the State that I in part represent are of such a charac-\\nter that I am constrained, however high my esteem may be for the\\nSecretary of the Interior, if it comes to a vote to vote for the com-\\nmittee amendment.\\nOne or two observations by the Senator from New Hampshire\\nmight be answered by the statement that in the forestry reserves\\nnow many of the settlers are abandoning their homes. Settle-\\nments are made in advance of surveys, and new settlers will not\\ngo into a new country and settle there unless they can have the\\nhope that their friends and relatives can follow them and settle\\naround them.\\nAn examination of this map [exhibiting] will show that in the\\nState of Washington they have erected around the State almost\\nwhat might be called a Spanish trocha. In the Olympic Forestry-\\nReservation we have 2,188,000 acres withdrawn from settlement.\\nIn the county of Klamath, a county organized and fully equipxjed,\\nthey have withdrawn over 900,000 acres of the 1,000,000 which\\nconstitute that county. In the county of Jelierson, on Puget\\nSound, they have withdrawn 84 per cent of all the land in the\\ncounty.\\n3274", "height": "3502", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "10\\nMr. MASON. I wish to ask the Senator from Washington a\\nquestion for information! Under what process do they withdraw\\nthe land? Will the Senator explain it?\\nMr. WILSON. It is done under an act of Congress authorizing\\nthe President of the United States to withdraw certain timber\\nlands, Government lands, for the purpose designated in the act,\\nto be known as forest reserves. It was an act passed, I think, in\\nISyO. I am not certain as to the date.\\nMr. PETTIGREW. March 7, 1891.\\nMr. WILSON. The act was passed in 1891. We had before\\nthat act one reservation in our State. We now have three, known\\nas the Washington, the Pacific, and the Olympic, and they com-\\nprise an area larger than the State of Massachusetts. In the\\nWashington Forestry Reserve, when the debate was in Congress a\\nyear or so ago, I showed that we had over 5,000 mineral locations,\\ntiijon which $8,000,000 worth of work had already been done. By\\nproper examination they could take the Olympic Forest Reserve\\nand make a reservation there of from 800,000 to 1,000,000 acres\\nand probably not affect any settlers or anybody.\\nI am told that sometimes these reservations are made for the\\npurpose of reserving the water supply. This could not possibly\\nhave been the reason for the reservations in western Washington\\nas we have an annual rainfall on the western side of the Cascade\\nrange that averages about 83 inches per annum, and in some places\\nin the Olympic Forest Reserve it is even greater than that, so that\\na reservation of the watershed was hardly necessary. In the\\nWashington Forestry Reserve all of our streams are supplied from\\nthe glaciers, and it was not necessary in that respect. The Pacific\\nForestry Reserve would have been all right under the original with-\\ndrawal, as some of the water rights on the eastern side of the\\nmountain are used for irrigation purposes.\\nMr, STEWART. Could they not adopt a plan that would re-\\nserve the reservoir sites and use the water for irrigating purposes?\\nMr. WILSON. Oh, no; you can not affect the irrigation in\\nthat section of the country at all, because in the season of the\\nyear when you desire water for irrigating purposes we have the\\nlargest supply of water. The water is not low on the eastern side\\nof the mountains until September and October. All the streams\\nare full in the months of May, June, and July, when water is\\nused for irrigation purposes. Therefore the withdrawal of the\\nforestry reserves does not in any manner affect the water supply\\n60 far as those reservations are concerned.\\nMr. STEWART. The Senator from Colorado stated that they\\nwanted to use water for irrigating purposes in the mountains\\nconnected with a reservation and they would not let them use it\\nfor that purpose, and would not allow them to go there. I have\\nheard complaints of that kind in regard to several other places.\\nThe idea of reserving it to preserve the water and not use the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2water, it seems to me, shows how intelligently the matter is man-\\naged by people in this part of the country who know nothing about\\nthe situation out there.\\nMr. WILSON. I had hoped to have a letter here and have it\\nread from a citizen who is a resident within the forestry reserve\\nin Klamath County; but I did not think the subject would come\\nup to-day, and I shall take opportunity to present it to-morrow.\\nThere is another matter in connection with this subject, and at\\nthe proper time 1 shall move to recede from the committee amend-\\n3274", "height": "3512", "width": "2239", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "11\\nment. If these forestry reserves are to be preserved, there must\\nhe some authority under the Secretary of the Interior to desig-\\nnate the men who are to be employed. You must lodge that au-\\nthority somewhere. If we are to have forestry reserves, and if\\nwe are to employ men to put out forest fires and to guard the\\nreservations, we certainly do not want to be restrained by having\\nto hunt up a civil-service man to engage in that occupation.\\nI think that the committee amendment ought to be receded\\nfrom in view of the fact that there is small employment for those\\nmen. It is only for three or four or five months during the year.\\nThey will not be emploj-ed during the winter. Their employ-\\nment is not necessary then. There ought to be a place where they\\ncould be designated quickly and certainly. It seems to me that\\nif the item for the protection and administration of forestry\\nreserves is to go into the bill, the authority should be lodged with\\nthe Secretary of the Interior to designate the men who are to\\ntake charge of them. Therefore at the proper time and with the\\nconsent of the chairman of the committee, I shall move that the\\nSenate recede from the amendment in line 21, on page 67.\\nI hope that the amendment brought in by the committee may\\nbe agreed to, and that at some time in the future in making these\\nreservations they may be designated with a due regard for the\\nsettlers of the various States and the welfare of commerce.\\nApril 5, 1S9S.\\nMr. WILSON. Mr. President, on yesterday when this matter\\nwas under discussion I had called attention to the condition of\\naffairs prevailing in the Olympic Forestry Reservation and to the\\nfact that 82 per cent of the land in Clallam County had been with-\\ndrawn from settlement. I stated that I had received a letter from\\na gentleman residing within the Olympic Forestry Reservation\\nwhich I desired to present to the Senate to-day. I read the same\\nfor the information of our New England friends. It seems to\\nthrow about as much light on the conditions prevailing in those\\nforestry reservations as anything I can present. This letter is\\nwritten March 23, 1898, from Quillayute, Wash., a portion of the\\nlands which have been surveyed in the Olympic Forestry Reserva-\\ntion, lying contiguous and adjacent to the Pacific Ocean. This\\ngentleman writes to me that the people there are very much inter-\\nested in whatever legislation may take place in regard to this\\nmatter. He says:\\nWe already understand that tLo settler does not lose his claim unless he\\nabandons it; but although the land already filed upon is not wrested from the\\nhomesteader, it is nevertheless rendered more or less valueless by the isola-\\ntion that the reserve entails. As the reserve now stands our people are\\npractically imprisoned, their property in a sense confiscated by being ren-\\ndered almost valueless.\\nReservation barriers have arrested development, and our communities are\\nas completely isolated as if quarantined on account of some malignant (Jis-\\nease. Thus thousands of families are deprived of making homes upon the\\nrich areas of agricultural land that should, as it seems to us, be open to set-\\ntlement, and especially that this land was once opened\u00e2\u0080\u0094 twenty-four town-\\nships in Clallam County alone having been surveyed and quite extensively\\nsettled upon. Therefore many of our people have left and are still leaving\\ntheir homes and investments in despair and because they see the hope of\\nprogress killed.\\nIt gives me pain when I meet people who have in good faith settled here\\nand there, and in not a few instances somewhat remote from the older com-\\nmunities in order that they might have the more room for friend and kin-\\ndred, and in some cases the dear old parents, who were soon to follow from\\n3374", "height": "3502", "width": "2229", "jp2-path": "remarksinsenate00wils_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12\\nthe Western, Middle, or New England States, or oven from over the sea\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it\\ngives nie pain to find that the purposes of their hearts and hands have been\\nbroken off and that they with sad hearts are abandoning their little all,\\nwhich has been gathered by years of hard and unremitting toil. These poor\\ncitizens of our country, when asked to stay by the homestead and await\\nfuture and fuller developments, answer with a forlorn look.\\nTo do so is only to be left behind prison walls in a country from which our\\nkindred and friends who would live among us and help to develop the coun-\\ntry are banned from entering. Had the commission done its duty, and noth-\\ning but its duty, it might have been quite different. The members of that\\ncommission are no doubt good men and competent, but in the case of the\\nOlympic reserve I have abundant and good reason for believing they did not\\ndo the work assigned them thoroughly. I am sati-sfied they learned little\\nand saw less of our agi icultural area; without doubt there were over 3,000,000\\nacres of this reserve upon which they never set foot at all.\\nWe all sincerely hope and trust that some action may be taken by the\\nCongressof the United States, so that a grateful pe ople will be able to rejoice.\\nSincerely, yours,\\nR. TV. FLETCHER,\\nParsonage^ QuiUuyutc, M aslnngfou.\\nI think this gentleman is the Methodist pastor at Quillayute, a\\nlittle hamlet that is now located within the Olympic forest re-\\nserve. No words that I could iitter would add anything to what\\nhas been said in this communication addressed to me. 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