The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1902-10-07
COLORADO SPRINGS BODY
THANKS HIM FOR EFFORT
Proposed Merger Of National Irrigation
Congress With the Trans-Mississippi
Is Opposed by Utah Delegates, Who
Say II Is Better for the Tail to Wag
the Dog--Must Come Before Commit
tee on Permanent Organization.
my ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Colorado Springs, Col, Oct AT the
opening of the national irrigation congress
This morning the committee on credentials
made its report. The organization was
perfected without contest or difficulty.
The committee on organization, consist
ing of three delegates from each of the I6
states included in what is termed the arid
belt, making total of 48 members, elected
John Hall of Kansas as chairman, and Il.
r. Morrow Of Rosewll, N. NJ, as secretary.
Fred L. Allies of California was elected as
sistant secretary and c. J. Gavin of New
Mexico reading clerk of the congress.
A decided sensation was sprung in the
action of the executive committee in
voting to recommend that the meetings of
the irrigation congress be merged with the
Mississippi congress next year.
The executive committee must, in or
DER to be parliamentary, make this sug-
gestion through the committee on per-
manent organization.
When the first breath of news regarding
the proposed consolidation reached the
congress delegates from the several states
sought their respective committee rooms
and held hurried caucuses. The Utah dele
cation of 30 members, the largest outside
of Colorado, decided emphatically against
the merger, Chairman Kiesel stating the
position of his state as follows: utah
was the first state to take up the matter OF
irrigation and is therefore better ac-
Guainted with the subject than any Other
state in the union.
Let the Dog Wae the Tail.
"The irrigation congress was formed for
G. Al. IL. Il
be adhered to rcligiousy. We say go it
alone and do not let the tail wag the dog"
Before taking up the program for the
morning, kilograms of greeting and regret
were read from Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson and from Abbot and Richardson,
government commissioners on good roads,
now in Portland, Ore.
Secretary Maxon Of the association made
his annual report, showing an increase of
interests in irrigation generally.
The report was a review of the history of
the past irrigation congress and of the agi-
tation for and passage of the recent irriga-
tion act of congress.
Secretary Maxon said: TOO much
credit cannot be given to President Roose-
welt for his part in the passage of the
irrigation act. To his firm stand for irriga-
ton legislation at this session the passage
Of the bill is undoubtedly due. His
OBJECTIONS to certain features in the senate
bill brought about the improvement of the
measure. AS finally passed it is such bill
as the champions for home building
measure have contended for.
He Knows the Way II Is.
President Roosevelt has more init
mate knowledge of the West than any
former president. His long residence
there gave him an unusual opportunity to
study its resources, and to his practical
suggestions and firm stand the West owes
passage of law that will be far-reaching
in its effects. 1t is not too much to say
that without President Roosevelts aid the
reclamation of the arid West would have
been indefinitely postponed"
Mrs. Gilbert McClurg of this city, re-
spending for Mrs. Denison, president of
the General Federation of Woman's clubs,
extended the greetings Of the federation.