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To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning
them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural
features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains. illegible BOARD OF DIRECTORS 1904-1905 Mr. JOHN MUIR, President .... Martinez
Prof. A. G. MCADIE, Vice-President . Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. J. N. LE CONTH, Treasurer . Berkeley Prof. W. R. DUDLEY, Cor.Sec
y . Stanford University Mr. WILLIAM E. COLBY, Secretary . Mills Bldg., S. F. Prof. GEORGE DAVIDSON ..Berkeley Mr. J. S.
HUTCHINSON, Jr. Claus Spreckels Bldg., S. F. Mr. WARREN OLNEY . IOI Sansome St., S. F. Mr. E. T. PARSONS . . University
Club, S. F. (Vice Mr. ELLIOTT MCALLISTER, resigned) COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATIONS: Pres. DAVID STARR JORDAN, Chairman Stanford
Univ. Mr. ELLIOTT MCALLISTER, Editor Crocker Bldg., S. F. Prof. WM. F. BADE. . . . . . . . . . Berkeley Prof. WM. R. DUDLEY
. . . Stanford University Mr. ALEX. G. EELLS . . . Crocker Bldg., S. F. Mr. E. B. GOULD . Mutual Savings Bank Bldg., S.
F. Mr. J. S. HUTCHINSON, Jr. Claus Spreckels Bldg., S. F. Mr. E. T. PARSONS University Club, S. F. Prof. H. W. ROLFE .
. . Stanford University Mr. WILLOUGHBY RODMAN Bryson Block, Los Angeles San Francisco, Cal., Feb. 24, 1905. Mr. John
Muir, President Sierra Club, Martinez, Cal. My Dear Mr. Muir: After all our hard work in this Recession matter, it is
a great satisfaction to learn that the desired result has been accomplished. The bill had a very close call in the Senate
since two of our friends were absent and two men that we had counted on to vote with us went over to the enemy so that we
fell 4 votes short of what we had expected, but favorable influences were at work and we gained three votes that we had not
counted on, just enough to carry the bill. The Golden-haired Shortridge finally voted in favor of the bill explaining that
so many of his constituents had demanded it that he could not overlook their wishes. To make the contest all the more exciting,
another Senator whom we had counted on refused to vote on the question until the Senate demanded that he vote one way or the
other and when forced to do so cast his vote with us, making the necessary twenty-one. Still another Senator whom we had counted
on all along announced a very short time before the vote that he thought that the bill was not going to carry and hence to
satisfy some of his constituents who had asked him to vote against it, he was going to do so, but being reassured at the last
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