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...other products listed in the resolution are or may be controlled in similar ways by various foreign countries. Brazil is protecting her coffee growers. Canada is talking of an export embargo on pulpwood to conserve her timber, etc. But at the present time rubber is the outstanding case...
Interior. One pleasing fact, (a savings of $82,635,930 in operating the Department during the past two years) and several disturbing ones were reported by Secretary Hubert Work. He declared that the timber on public lands was being dissipated, and recommended that no Government timber be sold for ten years. He asserted that Government reclamation projects planned to pay back their cost in ten years, had not done so in 20 years; that on many projects it is impossible to secure sufficient settlers; and that on parts of many the soil is too poor to enable settlers...
...told: 1) that the pine beetle was destroying $15,000,000 of timber annually, while the Government had only five poorly paid entomologists combating the pest; 2) that the Government has failed to make proper provision for leasing its grazing areas to cattlemen who are being ruined by high fees, and uncertain tenure of land; 3) that owners of small tracts of land inclosed in or near Government forest reserves are being squeezed out by large timber interests that lease the Government reserves; 4) that Secretary of the Interior Work was antagonistic to the development of the irrigation projects...
...make an investigation into the administration of the Department of the Interior with the special purpose of looking into the matter of grazing on the public lands. But the Committee has decided that its authority is wide enough to comprehend investigation of reclamation projects, the forestry bureau and timber lands, water power development, mining and probably national parks and Indian affairs as well-all matters in the province of the Department of the Interior. On Aug. 26, it will start like a great Juggernaut upon its inquisitorial path...
...latitude is a line that exists only in the imagination, and it looks as though it were going to cease to exist even there. The borderline exists by virtue of a treaty that is respected by both sides, but when your mines are ruled, your water powers exploited, your timber limits seized upon- all for the benefit of the alien living on the other side; and when, after taking all your natural resources, shipping them to the United States and selling them back to us as manufactured products, the hearts and souls of your children are turned American...