The United States forest policy . h the pro-ceedings in Congress have insisted that there was no political it is more reasonable to assume that the western senatorsfelt they had no particular reason to oppose this measure since itapplied to another section of the The House vote and the Senate vote of certain sections of thecountry differed widely. Thus, while in the Senate the Rocky Moun-tain and Pacific states cast a strong vote for the bill, in the Housethey voted three to one against it. So the southern states, while in theSenate almost unanimous in favor of the bil
The United States forest policy . h the pro-ceedings in Congress have insisted that there was no political it is more reasonable to assume that the western senatorsfelt they had no particular reason to oppose this measure since itapplied to another section of the The House vote and the Senate vote of certain sections of thecountry differed widely. Thus, while in the Senate the Rocky Moun-tain and Pacific states cast a strong vote for the bill, in the Housethey voted three to one against it. So the southern states, while in theSenate almost unanimous in favor of the bill, were in the House almostequally balanced. PROVISIONS OF THE WEEKS LAW The Weeks Bill as finally passed54 appropriated $1,000,000 for thecurrent year and $2,000,000 each year thereafter until June, 1915,for the purchase of forest lands in the southern Appalachian andWhite mountains. The purchase of these lands was left to a commis-sion—the National Forest Reservation Commission, consisting of the SENATE VOTE ON THE WEEKS BILL. D STATES Tff Wff/Cti tlElTHZZ?3EHAT0X. 1/otED OB t/i Wrt/CHVOTED OI~l OPPOSITE SIDES. 7pped includes1pairs tv/iicfi could be ascertained) Cong. Rec, Feb. 15, 1911, 2602 54 Stat. 36, 961. FOREST RESERVES IN THE EAST 221 Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary ofAgriculture, two members of the Senate, and two members of theHouse. Most of the active work of examining and selecting lands forpurchase was, however, turned over to the Secretary of addition to these provisions, the Weeks Law gave Federal sanc-tion to agreements the states might make among themselves for theprotection of forests; and appropriated $200,000 for fire protection,in cooperation with those states which were willing to appropriate anamount equal to that furnished by the Federal government. A rathergenerous provision gave to the states concerned 5 per cent of thereceipts from reserves situated within their boundaries, for the benefitof schools and
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