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  • and the Government made provision, by an exchange for other public lands, for taking care of the settlers, and there were not a great many of them. This proposition would seem, as I understand it, to be the taking of private property for public purposes. Mr. PRITCHARD. Yes; that is the purpose. Mr. SPOONER. And in so far is it not a new departure? Mr. PRITCHARD. In that respect it is a new departure. Mr. BATE. Do I understand that it is proposed to condemn the land by the courts, or that it is to be purchased from private parties? Mr. PRITCHARD. It is not proposed to condemn the lands in any section. The bill provides where persons desire to remain within the territory of the proposed reservation and will still reserve the original forest according to the rules of good husbandry that they shall not be disturbed. But, of course, if anybody residing within that territory persists in the ruthless destruction of the timber, so as to produce an unusual flow of water and the freshets from which we suffer in that region, then there is a provision to condemn the lands, and in order that we may have that authority the States of North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee have all passed acts of cession, reserving the right of jurisdiction as to process, both criminal and civil, that may run within the territory. Mr. SIMMONS. Will my colleague permit me? Mr. PRITCHARD. Certainly. Mr. SIMMONS. I desire to say, in reply to the inquiry of the Senator from Wisconsin [Mr. Spooner] , that the $2,000,000 which the bill presently appropriates is to be used by the Secretary of Agriculture not at once, but to be spread out in the purchase of these hinds during the next two years. As I understand the bill there is to be no further appropriation—that is the present purpose—until that $2,000,000 has been expended; and there is a two- year limit in which it is to be expended. Mr. PRITCHARD. Mr. President, in answer to- my distinguished friend from Tennessee [Mr. Bate] , as to whether or not there is a precedent for purchasing land by the Government for the purpose of being used for a forest reserve, I will call his attention to the fact that the proposed purchase of mountain lands for the Appalachian Forest Reserve will not be without precedent on the part of the Government. Numerous tracts of land have been purchased from time to time for military tracts and reservations by the Government, as well as the purchase from the Blackfeet Indians in 1896 of a body of forest land at a cost of $1,500,000, which lands were subsequently added to the Flathead Forest Reserve in Montana. It will be seen that this precedent is on all fours with the proposition now before the Senate. Mr. President, this policy is not confined to our own Government, as it will be found upon investigation that other governments have deemed it necessary to perpetuate their supply of timber and to protect the forests about their mountain streams and rivers. In some cases, like that of France, where the governments have too long neglected to protect their mountain streams, they have found it necessary to expend many millions of dollars in trying to restore the forests on the mountain slopes, from which the forests bad been destroyed by their original owners. The Southern Appalachian Mountains extend from the south- 5241
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