Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1908-03-07
SAVING OF RESOURCES
May Conference In Washington
to Be a Notable Affair.
CALLED BY THE PRESIDENT.

All Governors of States and Some Of
the Most Representative Citizens TO
Take Part-Desire to Frame Working
Basis For Plans Of Conservation.
Replies from the governors of many
states have been received ar the White
House accepting the presidents invita-
ton extended to the chief executives
of all the states and territories to meet
In Washington on May Ii, II and 10
and, confer upon the conservation of
the country's natural resources. The
attendance of all the governors of the
United States is practically assured
at what will be one of the most nota-
BILE gatherings Of its time ever held In
the United States, says the New York
POSTS special Washington correspond
emit So far as is known, it will be the
| first time the governors Of all the
states have met with the president OF
the United States in one assemblage.
Each governor will be accompanied
by three delegates. The governors have
shown q disposition to name some OF
! the ableSt men in their states. For In
stance, Governor Lea of Delaware has
named as one Of the representatives OF
that state Judge George Gray, who has
been mentioned as Democratic candi-
date for the presidency. The names
of all the representatives will not be
! given out until the list is complete, but
it now comprises some Of the repre-
| sentative men of the country and
shows that the governors have not
made the appointments on a political
| basis.
The sessions of the conferences will
| be held in the east room of the White
House, and President Roosevelt ex-
poets to preside at each days meeting.
While the governors are here they will
be guests of the president at dinner
to be given probably the night before
the conference opens.
The object of the conference is to get
down to a practical working basis on
the plans for the conservation of the
country's natural resources. There is
to be no set programme, although sim
ply as basis Of discussion the subject
to be considered will be presented by
some recognized authority. The main
object of the conference, however, is
to afford a full and free opportunity
for the governors to express their opin-
ions as to how the natural resources OF
the country can best be preserved and
particularly as to the exhaustion of the
resources of their respective states and
the steps which they regard as advisa-
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The attendance at the daily sessions
will be limited in number, as the seat
ing capacity of the east room is not
more than six or seven hundred The
conference will be made up, in addition
to the governors and the represent
atives which they will bring with them,
} Of the senators and representatives in
, congress, the nine members Of the in
land waterways commission, which has
been intrusted by the president with
making plans for the conservation OF
natural resources, and also represent
atives of some Of the organizations
which are peculiarly interested in the
subject to be discussed. The White
House mail has been burdened Of late
with letters from almost every con-
ceivable organization, almost every one
Of which has presented some urgent
reason why that particular organiza-
ton should be included IN the confer
ence.
The United States inland waterways
} commission is now at work on its re
port. in which IT will include guiding