Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1903-09-23
DELIBERATIONS
 OF |RR|CATORS
Considering Problem of
 Land Laws.

The Congress About Evenly Divid-
 ed on the QueStiOn-Scramble
 For Next Session.
 Ogden, Utah, Sept. l6.-Methods of colonization of the vast irrigable districts of the west and the legal aspect of the whole question of irriga- tion and the existing land laws, were the subjects to be solved and which came before the national irrigation congress at today's sessions. The morning session was entirely occupied with the first named subject, Com mander Booth Tucker, of the Saliva tion Army, being the principal speak CT. At the afternoon session the desert land account which was attack ed yesterday by President Clark in his address to the congress, will be defended by Congressman Frank Mon- dell, of Wyoming. Here, if anywhere, division on any one of the great prob lens to come before the congress is expected. The sentiment apparently is about evenly divided B. for and against the repeal of the desert land act. Related delegates continue to ar rive. swelling the total to an un- precedented number. The seating capacity of the tabernacle is entirely inadequate. The fight for the con- gress of 1904 is growing sharp, Boise and Fl Paso apparently having the lead.
 When the congress was called to or der Senator Carr, of Wyoming, report ed for a special committee against any connection with the trans Mis- sissippi congress and the report was immediately adopted, thus disposing of the aff1liation idea. Ten minutes was devoted to resolutions, and a flood of them were introduced, in cluding statehood for Arizona, Okla homa, the protection of the water sheds supplying municipalities and number of other subjects.
 Among the speakers this morning were E. NJ. Branncek, of Portland, Oregon; c. E. Wantland, of the Un- ion Pacific, Denver; John Henry Smith; Major Carson, of Washington, Correspondent for the New York Times. Governor George c. Pardee, of California, delivered an address on
 "The Relation of Colonization to Irrigation"
 Ogden, Sept. 17.-An illustration of what irrigation will do for western land and the best methods of supply ing the needed moisture to the arid stretches of the west, as we'll as the theoretical science of irrigation, was before the delegates to the national irrigation congress at today's session. The morning meeting was almost en- tirely devoted to papers by govern ment experts of irrigation and forest ", headed by Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, who gave a comprehensive description of the great work the government was doirg in the matter of irrigation. No session of the con gress is scheduled for this afternoon, the delegates instead visiting the state model farm near here.
 Senator Newlands, of Nevada, was the first speaker of the day. His ad- dress was on "State Co-Operation | with National Irrigation"
 The committee on resolutions this morning decided, after a sharp debate, | to make favorable report on the res olutions urging the repeal of the timber and stone act, and commuta- | tion clause on the homestead act.
 Chamberlain resignation is almot | certain to casuse an appeal to the | cor Otry, Ba four being thus left with out support of either the protection ists or free traders.
 Ogden, Sept. 1s.-With the closing session of the eleventh session of the national irrigation congress scheduled for this evening, not half of the work of the congress has been completed today. Besides the reading of most of the interesting papers coming be- fore congress, by three government ex- perts on forestry and irrigation, there was scheduled to be report from the committee on resolutions. A fight over the selection of the next place of meeting is expected. On the sugges- tion of Chief Engineer Newell, only three of the addresses on the program will be delivered in order to give more time to the discussion of the land laws. The following addresses were delivered: Forest aud Water Supply F. II. Newell, chief engi- neer U. S. government. Forest Res ervations in Utah." A. F. Potter, government forestry expert. "For- estry," Clifford Pinchot, chief for ester of the United States government.
 On the first ballot Fl Paso was se- lected as the meeting place for the in 1904. The following off cers were elected unanimously: Pres ident. W. A. Clark, Montana; first vice president, L. W. Shurtlef, Utah; second vice president, w. c. John son, Denver; third vice president, John Hall, Texas: secretary, H. B. MaXson, Reno, Nev. B. A. Fowler of Arizona and c. B. Boothe, of California, were chosen to places on the executive committee.
 Gathering Insects.