Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-05-16
President Declares That Pub.
lie Privileges Must
Be Paid For
Governors viii Meet Here.
after on Gall Of Two
Thirds Of Them
MIS-. Roosevelt Gives Garden
Party Which 1900 PEG.
pie Attend

Washington, May 15.-The confer
ence of governors of the states of
North America ended today. The &C
complishments of this conference can
not be set forth with mathematical
precision. That it's immediate results
are more than ample and more than
the expectations of President Roose-
welt, who brought the conference to-
gether, and of the governors who par
ticipated.
A printed record of the conference
will later be available to every
every American home, which, with
the compilation of the facts, startling
On their meaning, convincing in their
universal conclusion, that the states
must act, and that the states and ma
ton must cooperate to the end that
the whole people of the nation may
accrue lasting benefit of its natural
resources. Perhaps greater in impor
lance than all else was the determi
to perfect a permanent organization
whereby feeling heretofore I'm.
known, in time may be developed
among the sovereigns of the 46 SOW
.ereign states, made strong by common
purposes and made potent by pro-
nouncement which may not lightly be
disregarded
The set program was set aside by
the president, and the interlaced
speeches and remarks throughout the
day brought to the platform men max.
ing plain the prevailing feeling Of
harmony. The prepared papers were
not presented, but they will be print.
ed in the permanent record
Their place was taken first by a
declaration, which was adopted af-
ter discussion which brought to
light no serious objection. Then VIM
j. Bryan was presented by the presi
dent and he touched upon chords OF
harmony and good feeling. The gov
ernors' discussion brought many gov
errors to the platform, but the prod
uct was altogether one of harmony
The president himself, answering one
criticism, that of Gov. Folk of Mis-
!. souri,, and his declaration aroused thu
warmest approval.
He swept aside academic laws" b.
saying: "a line of authority shoult
be drawn between the states and tn,
nation" He wanted action, and wha
he said received an Endorsement a
each period. Just word of what ha'
been called Twilight Land, that pow
er between federal and state govern
nients. My primary aim in legisla
ton that have advocated from tim
to time for the regulation of corpora
tions has been to provide some Ell
fective popular sovereign power TO
corporations. do not wish to keel
this Twilight Land one of large an
vague boundaries by judicial decision
that in given cases the state canno
act, and then a few years later b.
other decisions that in expressly sim
lar cases the nation cannot act, eithel
/ am trying to find out where one o
the other can act, SO there shall al
ways be some sovereign power tina
on behalf of the people can hol
every big corporation, every big inG
vidual to accountability, SO that 1T
or his, acts shall be beneficial to tn
people as a whole. In matters ths
relate only to the people within tn
state, of course the state Is the so
ereign and 1t should have power
act. If the matter is such that IL
state itself cannot act, then wis
on behalf of all the states that the NJ
tional government should take sue
matter, as charging rent for watt
power. My position is simply thi
where privilege which may be
value to future individuals or granite
is asked from the federal gOvernmen
then the federal government shou
put into the grant certain condition
1t shall not be granted in perpetui
II there It's necessity for a grant; thu
there must be power to attach como
tons to the grant to make 1t lol
enough so that corporation shs
have ample material reward. II
corporation deserves it. Give amp
reward to the captains OF industI
not Understandable or indefinite