Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-12
DENIED BY BALu|NGER
No Western Power Sites
Taken by dummies"
MAKES REPLY TO CRITIC
Secretarys Rejoinder to Demand
for "a Roosevelt Doer''
ATTACK BY EX-GOV. PARDEE
Spokane Congress Told That Gar
fields Policy Has Been Reversed
by the Taft Administration.
ATTACK BY EX-GOV. PARDEE


mat the public records show that rot a
single power site or dam site was taken
~ private individuals during tho time
that 1.1oa00 acres were thrown open
20 public entry last April"
This was III answer % tho charge that
land had been taken ~ ''iummies' act
ing for the water power trust
Two ex-sovernors are the central fig
ureS at the congress today. They are
Alva Adams OF Colorado and Z, r. Good
ing OF Idaho. Mr.. Adams spoke on APP
pies and alfalfa and Mr.. Gooding on the
development of Idaho under the Carey
act. The morning session vas devoted
to farming. and among the speakers
We're y. ii. Bailey. director o. the hu
feau of experiment. stations, Samuel For
tier Of the Department o. Agriculture,
III. ". Campbell ard (. l.. Waller.
Reclamation by Irrigation and Drain
age was scheduled for disc ussion a. the
afternoon session, with Paul Classtone.
speaker OF the Idaho house Of representa-
tives. and J S. Dennis an of.ci4! Of the
Canadian Pacific railway. as the speakers
This evening thero will pc al irrigation
and industrial paraGc.
Pardee's Attack o.. Ballinger.
At the National Irrigation Congress
yesterday afternoon. DR. George G. Par
dee, formerly governor Of California. at
tackled Secretary Ballinger for his policy
Senator George Turner of Washington de
Tended the secretary.
1t was after Secretary Ballinger had
read from paper his ideas on land rec
lamation and the public domain. contend
ing that what has been done by. the
Secretary of the Interior was under the
law, that former GOV. Pardee took tie
platform to deliver set address. But he
did not use his manuscript He opened
by saving that lie was for Roosevelt
and the Roosevelt policies Roosevelt
was a President who did things first,
said he. and talked about them after
ward. And that's the kind of men we
should like to see in public office now
DIR. Pardee told of the activities of for
mer Secretary Garfield. who. under the
instructions Of President Roosevelt, with
drew from public entry many tracts OF
land under the BELIEF that these Lands
should be held for the people. Now, lie
said, Secretary Ballinger, had again put
up for entry these lands, and each tract
had In its boundaries q water p We site
"The thing to do said DIR. Pardee lis
to withdf aw the water power sites, as did
Roosevelt and hold them for the people
When pleaded the speaker. ar we
ever going to have chance for the COM
mon hard working citizen? Secretary
BaIlinger has said irrigation is not a
proposition for a poor man. l take issue
with him and say it is pa. ticularly a poor
mans proposition, and if there IS any
one trying not to make it SO, let's find out
about it,
Former United States Senator George
Turner. replying to Pardee. sad:
Il think that the remarks of Gov. Par
dee following those of the Secretary of the
ger has done in his official capacity only
what any other public officer would do
under his oath of office-he has obeyed
the law. No man has a right to act first
and read the law afterward.'
Secretary Ballinger's Address.
Secretary Ballinger, in his address
said:
While the government has invested
more than S5o.Oo0.0o0 in irrigation works,
many times that amount has been in
vested since the passage of the reclama
ton act by private enterprise. and it is
safe TO say that a large portion of these
private investments have resulted from
government example and encoura gemen;
and let me say here that II has not
been and is not the policy of the ma
tional government in the adm'nst alton
of this act to hinder or interfere W tn the
investment of private capital in the con-
struction of irrigation works. but rather
TO lend 1t encoura cement.
This is particularly true in reference
TO irrigation under the Cary act in the
various States.
THE people of the west who are
familiar with the wonderful results in.irri-
CATION are highly appreciative of the
Importance OF the reclamation s-rvice
but the great difficulty which the service
encounters is IN finishing the projects
for a diversion OF the funds to new
fields. In this respect the service mas
suffered.
THE danger which the government is
undertaking to overcome is the establish
ment of small irrigation projects in locali-
ties where by such establishment the
larger opportunities are destroyed, thus
preventing enormous areas of lands from
ever acquiring the use of water. For lack
Of funds the government is at present re-
quired To surrender possibilities in water
appropriations, which means an enor-
nous loss III future development of irri-
CATION works"
George Otis Smith director of the geo.
logical survey. spoke on the classitica-
ton OF public lands.
Success for Workers ONLY.
Howard Elliott. president Of the North
ern Pacific railroad. spoke of the oppor-
tunities OF the west. He said that while
the railway was second only to the farmer
as a developer of the nations resources
but few arise to say, Well done, thou
good and faithful servant"
The settlement OF the railroad prob
lem, he continued. Is not found in whether
the fare for passengers should be >;
cents mile, but in population which
will take advantage of natural resources
and not be AFRAID of more than eight
ident Taft for his demand for efficiency
among government employees and added
that in the west there was no success
for the man who wanted eight hours
labor and lots of holidays.
Mr.. Elliott said he believed the answer
10 the problem OF keeping the youth OH
the farm lay in the irrigation projects Of
the west.
Call for Five Billions.
resolution asking for 4 national :. per
cent bond issue OF S5,OU,upp,20 was in
troduced by the secretary OF the board
Of control, Arthur Hooler of Spokane
II is proposed 10 use the fund i'll five
portions. as follows:
One billion dollars for drainage, 81 utp-
10000 for irrigation, SlHn,uUo.Hp tor
deep waterways, Sloon,otU,0oo for good
roads. and $1,Hn,c0ouoo for forest prescr-
walton.
It was asked that 4 committee presen,
the request to Congress.
Funeral of James d. Goddard.
The funeral of James Douglas Goddard
was held at / o clock Yesterday afternoon