Arizona republican., 1909-08-14
PRESIDENT B. 4. FOWLER
  His Election as Head of Irriga-
 tOn Congress ANTICIPATED BY 4 DAY
Other Concluding Business of Congress Which Has Now Nothing to Do but Adjourn Today-Pinchot and Newell Endorsed.

Spokane. Aug. 13.-With the cleo tion of officers. the selection of Pueblo. Colo, as the next meeting place. the passage of a resolution commenting both the efforts of Messrs. Pinchot and Newell in the forestry and reclamation bureaus, asking for $lO,OOO,OO0 irrigation fund from congress and commend ing the Mississippi deep waterway the seventeenth national irrigation con gress came to an adjournment to- night.
 There will be no session tomorrow unless John Barrett. director of the bureau of American Republics ar rives to deliver a promised address The business planned for tomorrow was all transacted today. and nothing Is left except the formal adjournment.
 The following officers in addition to the eelctiOn of B. A. Fowler or Phoenix, Arizona, as president. and Arthus Hooker, of Spokane, secre- tary. as reported several days ago were today elected unanimously: vice president, Ralph Twitchell, of New Mexico; second vice president, F.. W. Young. of Utah: third vice president. D. L. Newman, of Montana. fourth vice president. F. w. Fleming of New Mexico; fifth vice president. E. J. Watson. of South Carolina.
 The resolutions commenting Messrs- Newell and Pinchots administrations of the bureaus of reclamation and forestry were general. not even men tioning the chiefs of these divisions Col. Martin represented the deep wa terways project before the congress in the absence Of W. K. Kavanaugh. president of the Lakes to the Gulf Deep Water Ways association. He gave an outline of what was expected as a result of the proposed fourteen foot main trunk waterway. John T. Matthews was also a speaker on the subject
 The afternoon was given over to addresses by the governors of the states of Florida, South Dakota, Ida ha. Washington. Nebraska and Mon- tana. Governor Shallenberger of Nebraska made a stirring appeal for the conservation of resources which was greeted with continued applause. He had with him considerable dele gation of both men and women.
 Governor Gilchrist of Florida gain ed the applause of the congress by appeal for the abolishment of the Mason and DixOn's line and by the designation of the south as a "sleep- ing giant now awake"
 Governor Brady of Idaho commend ed both Secretary Ballinger and Gif- ford Pinchot, and urged that oil be poured on the troubled waters .n the interests of the general western good. Governors Vesey of South Dakota and Norris of Montana, thanked the congress for it's activities. General Piet VilzOen, formerly of Kruger army in the Transvaal represented Governor Curry of New Mexico.
 All the remaining traces of the Bal linger-Pinchot hostilities disappeared on the last day of the congress with perhaps mention npw and then by some kindly disposed speaker. Un- less a discussion Should arise tomor- row, which Is practically impossible, the congress will be considered ad journed. Deep waterways for the in- land empire was the subject Of an address of Prof w. D. Lyman, who spoke in the morning.