The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-14
WHITE HOUSE
CONFERENCE
IN FULL BLAST
President R0OSeveIt'S Entrance
= Preceded by BIare of
TrumpetS.
GOVERNORS STOOD UP
AND LOUDLY SHOUTED
PERMANENT ORGANIZATION BY
STATE AND NATION ONE RE-
SUIT TO BE OBTAINED.

Washington, May 13.-Two ideas.
destined TO mark material progress In
Americas future. resulted from the
first of the three days conference at
the White House today in which Pres
ident Roosevelt, the governors of forty
four states, cabinet officers, supreme
court judges, senators. representatives
and experts are participating in ef-
forts to reach conclusions on the best
methods of conserving the natural re-
sources of the United States.
The first Is that permanent organ
ization by the states and the nation is
necessary and will likely result from
tte present conference, to accomplish
the end sought. The secOnG-suggeste
by Secretary Roots that there is no
limitation by the constitution to the
agreements which may be made be-
tween the states. subject to the ap-
prOval of congress. The two ideas,
fully developed, it is predicted, would
result in the conservation of the ener-
gies and resources of. the nation
through uniform and unconficting
laws, both national and state.
The idea that the conference should
be perpetuated developed in the form
of resolutions offered for later consid-
Grafton by Governor Glenn of North
Carolina and Governor Folk of Missou-
ri. There We're many others. but a par
liamentary move TO save time sent
them to a committee for consideration.
With Flourish of Trumpets.
'Forty-four governors of states of the
Union sat on gilded chairs in the his
tOric east room of the White House
and Chatted from 10 10 II O'Clock this
morning. Five hundred other persons
taxed the capacity of the room. They
were cabinet officers, supreme court
justices. senators, representatives, eX-
perts in all lines of industry. With a
flourish of trumpets the president and
vice president entered at IL o'clock and
the conference, the first of its kind in
the history of the nation, began. The
president had been at work in the ex-
eCutive offices up to the very minute
of converting. He entered the east room
on the minute OF II o'clock as the Ma
rine band rendered the presidential
-kOnors. The governors arose; they
clapped their hands; they shouted.
Five hundred others took their cue and
the demonstration became tumultuOus.
The presidents speech ended the
morning session. The governors and
delegates were photographed with the
president on the pOrtico of the White
Hkuse The picture will also show
William j. Bryan. Andrew Carnegie. j.
J. Hill and Gustave Schwab, specially
invited participants.
Real Work of Conference.
At the afternoon session the real
work of the conference began and the
session, which opened at PAS and lasted
until sos o'clock, proceeded at a rate
that broke all speed regulations. 1t de-
1,at find
impossible to devote his entire time to
the conference meetings. He will. as
he did today, call to order each session
and then designate a governor to pre-
side This honor fell today on Gov
ernor Noel of Mississippi. with the in
timation from the president that to-
morrow he should call upon Governor
johnson of Minnesota. Then after this
announcement, as if his political in
stinct had received a shock, the presi-
dent suddenly called upon Mr.. Bryan
r. interrupt the program and Incl
dentally the prepared speech of An
drew Carnegie and address the meet
ing. Mr.. Bryan acknowledged the en-
thuSiasm his name aroused by lifting
his hands, and then indicated a desire
TO speak Friday.
Carnegie on Coal and Iron.
u was from the ultefdHCeS OF MT.
Carnegie and those who followed him
that the gravity of the problems to be
considered were given weight Two
hundred years of coal supply and half
that of iron was the prediction of the
famous ironmasteT. These facts he bore
home with detail. but good naturally
limited that he would be disputed "by
M friend, J. J. Hill"
There were ways by which both the
coal and iron supplies might be con-
served, according TO Mr.. Carnegie-by
economies in mining and in use and
the development of water transpOrta-
ton, which. he said, required less of
both products.
DR.. &c White of West Virginia ad-
ded expert knowledge and prediction on
the subject of coal and iron, in which he
predicted the exhaustion of the Pittsburs
coal supply in ninety-three years and the
West Virginia fields in practically the
same time.
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