The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-09-04

merriment with an address. His oratory
was like the flow of a river and his
word pictures delighted the thousands of
men and women who listened to him.
Two resolutions introduced by Matthew
Daugherty of Utah and w. A. McAllis-
ter, were read and referred to the COM
mittee. Daugherty's resolution provides
for the leasing of irrigable lands while
McAllister's looked to the direction and
regulation of emigration towards irrigable
lands
A recess was then declared for lunch
con.
Fair Play Demanded.
When the close of the program was
reached at the afternoon session 1t was
announced that George Otis Smith of the
geological survey had not arrived in time
to speak and that any delegate who de-
sired to be heard might address the con-
gress. White Smith arose and said ne
did not think any delegate was opposed
to reclamation and forestry, but that it
was not a question of what. but of how
He said the congress had only heard from
one side.
Let some man be called" said Smith.
who may present the other side. All
we ask is fair play and that no cut and
dried program be forced down our
Threats. | as one delegate demand some
voice in the proceedings.
Associate Justice Nave of Arizona sug-
gested that Smith be allowed three-quaT-
ters Of an hour to address the convention
and accordingly he took the platform.
Attack on Roosevelt.
He said the people could not be proper
ly represented in the irrigation congress
If men Of practical experience did not
have more voice Referring to the re
mark of Pfnchot. the Inyo county man
said the government officials are evident
ly afraid to stand forth in the interests
of the poorer classes as shown by the
statement that they do not want to gain
the opposition of interests like those con-
trolling four-fifths of the timber in the
United States. Smith then turned his at
tention to President Roosevelt, in reia-
ton to the Owens valley water project.
when the protests of the people of
Owens valley was taken before Secretary
Garfield" said Smith. The refused TO
grant the water to Los Angeles except
for municipal purposes. The matter later
came before the president and he said:
While the farmers have certain rights,
these rights must be disregarded.
What we ask" continued Smith, rs
that the power of the secretary of the
interior and secretary of agriculture be
curtailed. Let the people know their
rights and not be governed by any man
WILL even though he be president OF the
United States. Fair play Is all We ask.
/ will also say the delegates are sovereign
and not the committee on resolutions
When the President Swore.
The name of Roosevelt figured also in
the reHlaIhS VI eA-GVNSthOI a. -,
California, who. in telling of ride he
had with the president when they were
choked by smoke by brush fires, said:
The president asked the cause OF the
fires and was told that lumber men were
responsible"
"Damn the lumber men," said the presi-
dent" Il being a devout governor OF
California" added Pardee, said amen,
the president later qualifying his remark
by saying he did not mean all the lumber
men"
The remainder of the day was marked
by nothing out of the program order. In
teresting addresses were listened to and
committees organized.