Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-05-14
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the suggestion OF the FfeSlueHt DC
adopted This action was put by the
President and carried without discus
sion The suggestion of the President
that all speeches by experts be limited
to 20 minutes and that the formal dis
cussion be confined to speeches of 10
minutes duration, also was made rule
of the convention on motion Of Cover
nor Johnson.
The session ended at noon when the
President and Vice President gave an
informal reception to those who had
attended the meeting. Immediately af-
forwards he met the governors, men,
bers of the supreme court and others
who were his dinner guests Tuesday
night, in the Blue drawing room.
After the reception the governors as
senlbled on the Dortico of the White
House with the President and Vice
President and the specially invited
guests. where several group photo
graphs were made. While the group
was being formed President Roosevelt
chatted enthusiastically with Governor
Hughes of New York, with j. J. Hill,
w. j. Bryan and others.
The afternoon session of the confer
encc did not begin until about 2.i1
O'Clock. President Roosevelt opened
the meeting and then called Governor
Noel of Michigan to the chair to pre-
side, explaining that his duties would
not permit Of his being in constant at
tendance.
The President expressed the belief
that the convention would be glad to
hear Mr.. Bryan toward the end of the
afternoon session which invitation the
latter gracefully accepted. The Presi-
dent also requested Governor johnson
Of Mime sofa to preside at tomorrow
session and he accepted. Both sugges-
tions were greeted with tremendous
applause.
Introductory to his remarks on the
conservation of ores and related min
erals, Mr.. Carnegie departed somewhat
from his written remarks when he de-
clared that most Presidents follow pre-
cedents but that President Roosevelt
initiates them. He expressed the hope
that when the conference adjourned
it will do so to meet at the call of the
President
DR.. l. c. White, professor of geology,
in the University of West Virginia and
geologst of that state, followed Mr..
Carnegie.
At the conclusion of DR.. Whites re-
marks. general discussion was opened by
John Mitchell. former president of the
United Mine Workers of America.
Twenty-seven governors and $50 bus
mess men of Washington heard the
Vice President of the United States,
the Speaker of the House of Repre-
santatives. the secretary of the treas
ury, the minority leader in the House
and other speakers discuss questions
involved in the subject being consid
cred at the conference of governors
ia the White House this week, at a
dinner tonight at which they were the
guests of the Washington Board of
Trade.
Vice President Fairbanks made a
plea fer the preservation of the insti-
tutions of the nation. LET the gov
errors arise and say that nobody shall
take away their powers and center
them in the federal government he
said
Speaker Cannon spoke in a similar
vain He urged that the conservation
of tbs: natural resources of the country
was a problem for the township, the
county and the state to solve individ
ua.ly.
John Sharp Williams referred char
acteristically to the way he and his
colleagues have fallen under the ham,
mer of the Speaker of the House.
Secretary Cortelyou referred to the
financial problem as one which has in
measure been worked out with the
cooperation of the business men and
bankers of the country.