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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 5, 1897. My dear Muir: I am gratified by the receipt
of your note of February 24th. I do not understand why you have not heard before that the proclamations were an issued on
the 22nd. I should have supposed the news would have been telegraphed to Sari Francisco. Mr. Page, the editor of The Atlantic
Monthly, has sent me a copy of his letter to you. It seems to me excellent and that you cannot very well get out of the job.
We have had quite a lively time the last few days, the Senate having unanimously voted to annul the President's proclamations.
I was summoned to Washington hastily and, so far as anything I did there uselessly, out the Reserves are all right either
through the failure of the two Houses to concur or because the President has vetoed the bill to which this matter was appended.
I have not heard tae particulars yet out will know m a day or two and win write an account of what has happened for Garden
and Forest. It is very evident to me that another and probably more dangerous attack will be made agains the Reserves during
the special session of Congress, and it is of the utmost importance that everything possible should be said and done to arouses
the public to an appreciation of their value as great national, illegible Unless this can be done, there is no hope of saving
them. The western 02252